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Pioneering genomics researcher J. Craig Venter鈥攂est known for leading the privately funded team that sequenced the first human genome鈥攚ill give a keynote talk at the 暗网禁区 on Sept. 29 about the scientific potential of and future products derived from 鈥渟ynthetic life.鈥�

Consumers are willing to spend thousands of dollars for luxury brand watches such as Rolex and Cartier because they are synonymous with high quality. But does this mean that inexpensive watches made by low-cost rivals must always be low quality? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research , consumers mistakenly predict product quality based on quality consistency in other price ranges.

The 暗网禁区 greatly expanded its CU Promise program for low-income students this fall resulting in funding assistance becoming available for more than 700 additional students. The CU Promise program guarantees that CU-Boulder students with Colorado resident status from low-income families can receive enough grants and work-study employment to pay for their share of tuition, fees and estimated book expenses.

CU-Boulder's Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations office has recently begun a new pilot program called 鈥淲alk This Way." T he program, which began Sept. 5 and is being held from 10 p.m. 鈥� 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights in September at the intersection of 10th and College on the Hill, is meant to inform visitors and residents of the Hill about noise and its impacts, and to help direct foot traffic to primary walking corridors.

The 暗网禁区 welcomed a freshman class of 5,869 students, a slight increase by 0.4 percent over last year, and in the process achieved the most academically qualified and diverse incoming class in the campus鈥檚 history. Fall 2014 census figures show a total enrollment of 29,772 degree- and licensure-seeking students, 447 students more than last year. A total of 3,083 Colorado residents enrolled as new freshmen in the fall class, as well as 2,786 from out of state and a record 386 freshman international students, a 41 percent increase from last year.

As part of the sixth annual Live Free Weekend , the CU-Boulder community is being encouraged to take a pledge to forego all alcohol use for 96 hours from Sept. 25-29. The weekend challenge includes numerous free and fun events. Click through to learn more.

A NASA mission to Mars led by the 暗网禁区 is set to slide into orbit around the red planet Sept. 21 to investigate how its climate has changed over the eons, completing a 10-month interplanetary journey of 442 million miles. The orbit-insertion maneuver will begin with six thruster engines firing to shed some of the velocity from the spacecraft, known as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN mission. The thruster engines will ignite and burn for 33 minutes to slow the spacecraft, allowing it to be captured into an elliptical orbit around Mars.

Commencement is an important event in the lives of our students and their families. It is the culmination of their academic careers to date and marks their transition in the next phase of life. We would like to encourage the university community to support commencement and participate in the ceremony. To that end we would like to announce that all staff volunteering as commencement marshals for the Saturday, Dec. 20 ceremony, will receive four hours of administrative leave, to be taken in consultation with their department and supervisor.

Please join us for a celebration of our outstanding faculty. On Friday, Sept. 19 beginning at 1:30 p.m., CU-Boulder will host its ninth annual Fall Convocation: A Celebration of Faculty Achievement . It will be held in conjunction with this year鈥檚 Family Weekend. Events include speakers throughout the morning and an awards ceremony followed by a reception.

Thousands of CU-Boulder family members will begin arriving on campus Thursday afternoon and Friday morning for Family Weekend 2014, where they will visit their student鈥檚 campus home, attend classes and presentations, tour the campus and Boulder and cheer on the Colorado Buffaloes as they take on the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.