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Â鶹ÒùÔº at the University of Colorado at Boulder this week are celebrating Engineering Days, a week-long technology fest featuring the annual College Egg Drop, Vertical Take-off Challenge and Engineering Carnival. Co-sponsored by the University of Colorado Engineering Council, corporate sponsors, and professional engineering societies, E-Days is an annual celebration of the engineering profession and a chance for students to apply their engineering skills in fun and creative ways.

A new study suggests that agriculture can successfully coexist with continuing population growth and urban sprawl in some areas of the Great Plains. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado, found that despite explosive population growth over the last 50 years in Denver, Boulder and other eastern Colorado Plains cities, total harvested area in the region increased by 5 percent and the amount of irrigated land that is harvested jumped by 73 percent.

As the war winds down in Iraq, many teachers still may find themselves fighting battles in their classrooms, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder education professor. In schools throughout the United States, students and teachers have tried to figure out how the war in Iraq should be addressed in the classroom. Facing conflicting demands from students, parents, administrators and their own sense of professional responsibility, teachers are often caught in the middle, according to CU-Boulder Professor Kevin Welner.

Editors: Tours of a four-bedroom, two-bath model are available for reporters and photographers. Contact Rob Martin, general manager, at (303) 443-2521 or rmartin@studenthousing.com to schedule an appointment. Bear Creek Apartments at Williams Village, the new student housing project at the University of Colorado at Boulder, features a variety of on-site amenities for students.