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Created with hopes of changing a frustrating reality in the art industry, CU-Boulder students Alex Klinger and Amanda Roper started WARES : a student group focused on providing experience for students looking to explore entrepreneurship and the art world.

Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless will present °µÍø½ûÇø senior Jeni Sorli with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a free public campus event on Thursday, Oct. 30.

Are you among the nearly 25% of U.S. adults reporting as caregiver to another adult? If so, you are likely at higher risk of increased emotional distress and poor health behaviors. Caregiver distress accumulates with the myriad decisions that must be made concerning your aging or disabled loved-one, coupled with the emotional and physical tolls of coordinating daily personal care. Learn about upcoming information sessions and resources for coping with caregiving.

On Thursday, Oct. 23, a partial solar eclipse will grace Colorado skies. If you want to catch a glimpse of it, the °µÍø½ûÇø’s Fiske Planetarium is selling eclipse-safe glasses for viewing and hosting a viewing event on the lawns surrounding the venue.

Oil and natural gas production fields can emit large amounts of air pollutants that affect climate and air quality—but tackling the issue has been difficult because little is known about what aspects of complex production operations leak what kinds of pollutants, and how much. Now a study led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics sheds light on just that, pinpointing sources of airborne pollutants.

Junior Tim Dolquist shares his experience working as a student chef on campus, and currently as the student chef with " Ralphie's Cooking Basics " -- a weekly cooking class offered to CU-Boulder students in the UMC outside Baby Doe's Coffee & Bakery.

Longtime Boulder resident Paul N. Eklund has made a transformative gift to the opera program at the College of Music at the °µÍø½ûÇø that, combined with additional university commitments, establishes a $2 million endowment for the program, to be renamed the Eklund Family Opera Program in honor of the gift.

Since 1930 the °µÍø½ûÇø’s best have been recognized at a special awards ceremony dedicated to highlighting their outstanding accomplishments and extraordinary service. This year the CU-Boulder Alumni Association will recognize nine of the university’s finest alumni, faculty, staff and students at the 85th Alumni Awards Ceremony during the university’s Back to Boulder Homecoming Weekend. The event, one of the longest-standing traditions at CU-Boulder, will take place at the historic Hotel Boulderado Thursday, Oct. 23.

Closed since May for renovations, the newly remodeled and significantly upgraded Glenn Miller Ballroom in the University Memorial Center (UMC) is scheduled to reopen on Jan. 27, 2015. Carlos García, Executive Director of the UMC, discusses what’s going on behind the construction tape, and what the upgrades mean for CU-Boulder.

NASA’s newest orbiter at Mars, MAVEN, took precautions to avoid harm from a dust-spewing comet that flew near Mars yesterday and is studying the flyby’s effects on the Red Planet’s atmosphere, according to °µÍø½ûÇø Professor Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator on the mission.