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Honor your colleagues' accomplishments by nominating them for a BFA Excellence Award in Teaching / Service / or Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work. These are the highest recognition that the BFA awards and are a longstanding tradition on the CU-Boulder campus. Please see details at the Faculty Governance awards website .

The °µÍø½ûÇø has worked closely with community partners to start a Sex Assault Nurse Examination program at a Boulder hospital during the first quarter of 2015. Boulder Community Health plans to launch the SANE program at its Foothills campus, providing a critical support resource for sex assault survivors.

The upcoming winter break is often a popular time for travel, so we want you to know about the latest CDC travel advisories. The CDC recommends that people avoid non-essential travel to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone at this time.

The °µÍø½ûÇø will hold its winter commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 20, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Coors Events Center. Due to possible traffic delays, and ongoing construction on U.S. 36 leading into Boulder, early arrival is strongly advised. Guests should plan on arriving well before 9 a.m. in order to be in their seats for the student processional. No tickets are required for the ceremony. The doors to the Coors Events Center will open at 7:30 a.m.

New Year’s resolution-makers beware: People tend to believe good behaviors are more beneficial in reaching goals than bad behaviors are in obstructing goals, according to a °µÍø½ûÇø-led study.

Building on years of collaboration using unmanned aircraft to fly into the storms that create the massive tornadoes that rip across the Midwest, scientists at the °µÍø½ûÇø and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have formed a new research consortium.

Early discoveries by NASA’s newest Mars orbiter are starting to reveal key features about the loss of the planet’s atmosphere to space over time. The findings are among the first returns from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which achieved orbit Sept. 21 and entered its science phase on Nov. 16. The observations reveal a new process by which the solar wind -- an intense stream of hot, high-energy particles blowing off the sun at more than 1 million mph -- can penetrate deep into a planetary atmosphere.

The °µÍø½ûÇø Police Department has arrested the suspect responsible for a series of attempted fondling and harassment incidents recently near the Euclid Avenue AutoPark at 18th Street and Euclid Avenue. Officers arrested Zack Halle, of Boulder, at 5:30 a.m. today at the Rodeway Inn & Suites Boulder Broker, where he was staying.

The annual Geminid meteor shower could be a fun show this weekend for Coloradans weather permitting, according to a °µÍø½ûÇø astronomer.

As students begin to complete finals and prepare plans for the holidays and their winter break, some may already be thinking about where they might want to live next fall.