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    Students from the University of Colorado Boulder won the 2005 Solar Decathlon competition by designing and building an 800 square foot solar home. The home was constructed through a collaboration between students from the College of Architecture and Planning and the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The home made the 2500 mile round trip from Colorado to Washington D.C. running entirely on biodiesel fuel made from vegetable oil. CU had previously won the competition in 2002 and reclaimed the top spot in 2005 in the competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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    Students from the University of Colorado Boulder won the 2005 Solar Decathlon competition by designing and building an 800 square foot solar home. The home was constructed through a collaboration between students from the College of Architecture and Planning and the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The home made the 2500 mile round trip from Colorado to Washington D.C. running entirely on biodiesel fuel made from vegetable oil. CU had previously won the competition in 2002 and reclaimed the top spot in 2005 in the competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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    Students from the University of Colorado Boulder won the 2005 Solar Decathlon competition by designing and building an 800 square foot solar home. The home was constructed through a collaboration between students from the College of Architecture and Planning and the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The home made the 2500 mile round trip from Colorado to Washington D.C. running entirely on biodiesel fuel made from vegetable oil. CU had previously won the competition in 2002 and reclaimed the top spot in 2005 in the competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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    RESEARCHERS AND LEARNERS

    Students from two CU campuses won the 2005 Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C.
    Students from the College of Architecture and Planning and the College of Engineering and Applied
    Science collaborated on the 800-square-foot solar home. Constructed in Colorado, the home made
    the 2,500-mile round trip to the nation’s capitol using 100 percent biodiesel fuel made from vegetable
    oil. CU previously won the competition in 2002, and regained the top spot at the 2005 national com-
    petition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

    The competition challenged students to design and build the most attractive, efficient and comfortable
    solar home, while educating the public about alternative energy technologies. CU’s solar home was a
    two-year effort, with Professors Julee Herdt of architecture and Michael Brandemuehl of engineering
    serving as faculty advisers. The CU home features patent-pending structural insulated panels contain-
    ing bio-based foam (called Bio-SIPs) and a retractable roof that can be raised two feet to create a
    cathedral ceiling to allow for added daytime lighting. Team members included graduate students Jeff
    Lyng, Frank Burkholder, Kristin Field, Adam Courtney and Jon Previtali and undergraduate students
    Mark Cruz, Drew Bailey, Jimmy Chambers, Bryce Colwell, James Dixon, Jacob Uhl and Ryan Drumm.

    ● Two evening CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business ● Hamilton Bean, a CU-Boulder PhD student,
    MBA students, Geoff Synder and Jeanine Lee, have received a $5,000 fellowship from the National
    worked with Roger Kram, associate professor in the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to
    Department of Integrative Physiology, to evaluate Terrorism (START). Bean is working on a qualita-
    the business aspects of his leg swing invention dur- tive study of how federal agencies use e-mail threat
    ing their business plan class with Frank Moyes, bulletins to assess terrorism-related information.
    instructor in the CU-Boulder Deming Center for The Department of Homeland Security sponsored
    Entrepreneurship. While studying the muscle acti- the grant via START.
    vation and metabolic requirements of walking,
    Kram developed a system that prevents falls and
    enables active facilitation of the leg swing needed to
    walk.

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