°µÍø½ûÇø

With the conclusion on Thursday of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and as the campus moves into spring finals, I want to take this opportunity to give you an update on issues surrounding sexual assault prevention and what has been accomplished at CU-Boulder this year.

A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 °µÍø½ûÇø co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen.

Want to be a part of your student government, work in a great environment and make a difference? Apply to be on the executive staff. There is a wide range of positions, from financial to political to artistic, so take a look at the job postings and get in those applications by applications by May 11.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced a $500,000 gift to be divided between the University of Colorado Law School (CU) and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (DU). Each school will use its $250,000 gift to create an endowed fellowship program. This gift is the single largest gift from a law firm in the history of both universities.

The °µÍø½ûÇø will hold its spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 9, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field. The ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will honor 5,927 candidates for degrees including 4,545 bachelor’s degrees, 908 master’s degrees, 149 law degrees and 325 doctoral degrees. Cathleen Black, a former media executive and author, is the keynote speaker for the ceremony.

With the end of the year drawing near, and graduation around the corner, all that is left is finals. CUSG is in your corner with resources to help you finish strong during this finals week.

April 30, 2015 Greg Holsclaw When NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft runs out of fuel and crashes into Mercury today at around 1:30 p.m. mountain time, CU-Boulder planetary scientist Greg Holsclaw will not only be thinking about how wildly successful the mission has been, but that he’s experienced it firsthand from the very beginning.

When you’re a master’s candidate, in your final semester, you don’t have a lot of time for yourself. Your days are spent writing, researching, neglecting to sleep. And when you’re working toward your master’s in music, a good chunk of your day is spent practicing. That said, sometimes an opportunity presents itself that’s so good—an opportunity that will demand weeks of your precious time—that turning it down isn’t an option.

A sustainability alliance formed in 2009 by Boulder County, the city of Boulder, Boulder Valley School District and the °µÍø½ûÇø will update the community during a town-gown forum May 4 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on the CU-Boulder campus.

A new °µÍø½ûÇø study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by drinking generally trump physically hazardous drinking behaviors when it comes to overall mortality rates.