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This Friday, Aug. 29, marks the annual Rocky Mountain Showdown at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. We Buffs take pride in our city, our school, and our team, and it’s time once again to support the Buffs in Denver as they take on Colorado State. While we all share the excitement for this important game, it’s worth remembering that your actions at the stadium reflect on our university, our students, and our legacy.

The 2014 Rocky Mountain Showdown featuring the University of Colorado vs. Colorado State University will take place Friday, August 29 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver. The kickoff for this highly anticipated event is at 7 p.m. and marks the 86th meeting of the CU and CSU teams. As the chiefs of the Denver, CSU and CU police departments, we want to welcome all spectators to Denver for the game. We are providing the information in this letter to promote a safe and enjoyable environment in and around the stadium.

°µÍø½ûÇø Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano today announced the appointment of Aaron Conley as vice chancellor for advancement effective Sept. 22. Conley is currently the vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Texas at Dallas where he was chief strategist for the recent UT Dallas comprehensive campaign that surpassed original campaign goals and almost doubled the total endowment.

You can help save a life - schedule your appointment to donate blood on the CU-Boulder campus. Wednesday, Sept. 3 and Thursday, Sept. 4, followed by Tuesday, Sept. 9 and Wednesday, Sept. 10, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day, hosted in the University Memorial Center, room 382-386.

I regret to inform you today of the passing of a member of our student community. This is certainly a difficult and challenging start to our school year. The loss of any member of our community is a terrible blow to all of us. Please know that our thoughts are with the family and friends of our student.

Chance The Rapper and Kygo will perform at CU-Boulder's Balch Fieldhouse on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m. Doors for the show, which is hosted by Program Council , open at 7:30 p.m. Opening acts are yet to be announced.

As the saying goes, pictures are worth a thousand words. But do photos capture every nuance of feeling, like one or two lines of poetry can? William DeSena, a CU-Boulder film studies student who spent the spring 2014 semester at sea through CU-Boulder's Study Abroad program, found that in poetry he could capture the steps of his journey in a way that retained sensory detail, beyond the still imagery of a photo.

By the University of Colorado Student Government You are about to embark or continue on a life-changing adventure along with astronauts, actors, politicians, writers, engineers, people who are going to change the future; and you will be immersed in resources, opportunities, and brain trusts strong enough to facilitate your mark on this world.

University of Colorado faculty researchers attracted $861.04 million in research awards in the 2013-14 fiscal year, based on preliminary figures. This year’s figure is bested by just one other in CU history, FY2010, when one-time federal stimulus dollars helped fuel research awards of $884.1 million.

A new documentary about measuring past climate change as a way to better understand human-caused warming of the planet, which features several Boulder scientists, will be broadcast on Colorado Public Television on Thursday, Aug. 28.