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Chancellor Philip DiStefano was appointed last week to the advisory board of the Colorado Innovation Network (COIN), that was launched by Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2011 to encourage public-private collaboration in industries expected to create new jobs.

Green food and drinks, festive parades, Irish music and shamrocks painted on smiling faces are all part of the great celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. But the St. Patrick’s Day celebration of the of the 21st century is a far cry from its holy origins in the ninth century, says Patrick Tally, a CU-Boulder historian.

A new study led by the °µÍø½ûÇø showed that as a group, volunteer counters who examined a particular patch of lunar real estate using NASA images did just as well in identifying individual craters as professional crater counters with five to 50 years of experience.

The °µÍø½ûÇø Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying a male suspected of indecent exposure on Monday, March 10, 2014, shortly after 4 p.m.

By Christina Gonzales, Dean of Students Melissa Zak, Chief, CU Police Department As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, we’d like to encourage everyone to celebrate responsibly. But as you do so, please take steps to ensure the health and safety of yourself and others.

A revolutionary °µÍø½ûÇø toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2.5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitation will be unveiled in India this month.

Wardenburg Health Center is now offering free basic nutrition consultations in the wellness suite at the CU Recreation Center on Wednesdays from 2-6 p.m.

Graduate programs across the University of Colorado system again are lauded for excellence in the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report. Research and teaching contributions by the four campuses in health care, engineering, law, education and business hold numerous spots in the 2015 edition of Best Graduate Schools (U.S. News Media Group).

The Orion Nebula is home to hundreds of young stars and even younger protostars known as proplyds. Many of these nascent systems will go on to develop planets, while others will have their planet-forming dust and gas blasted away by the fierce ultraviolet radiation emitted by massive O-type stars that lurk nearby.

The Office of the Provost is issuing a call for proposals for a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to be run on the Coursera platform in Fall 2014. We seek proposals to add one additional MOOC to the Boulder portfolio, proposals are welcome from current CU-Boulder faculty with tenure, instructors or faculty/graduate student teams.