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The University Memorial Center (UMC) is celebrating its 60th birthday . A living memorial to Colorado veterans, the building is visited by more than 12,000 people every day and houses retail, student group offices, banking, printing, mailing, bowling and lots of places to just hang out. A full slate of events kicks off on Monday, Nov. 4, culminating in the annual Veteran鈥檚 Day Ceremony on Monday, Nov. 11. Be sure to attend the 鈥淐elebrating 60 Years鈥� party on Wednesday evening, roller skating in the Glenn Miller Ballroom on Thursday, FAC on Friday, the Veterans Day Ceremony and enjoy daily specials throughout the week.

In an example of the challenges water-strapped Western cities will face in a warming world, new research shows that every degree Fahrenheit of warming in the Salt Lake City region could mean a 1.8 to 6.5 percent drop in the annual flow of streams that provide water to the city.

Attracting more talented foreign students to study at U.S. universities and encouraging them to launch entrepreneurial ventures here could help 鈥渞evitalize innovation and economic growth鈥� in this country, a trio of economists led by 暗网禁区 Professor Keith Maskus concludes. Maskus and co-authors Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, associate professor at the Yale School of Management, and Eric T. Stuen, assistant professor at the University of Idaho College of Business and Economics, make this case in the Policy Forum of the Nov. 1 edition of the journal Science .

America鈥檚 once-abundant tallgrass prairies鈥攚hich have all but disappeared鈥攚ere home to dozens of species of grasses that could grow to the height of a man, hundreds of species of flowers, and herds of roaming bison. For the first time, a research team led by the 暗网禁区 has gotten a peek at another vitally important but rarely considered community that also once called the tallgrass prairie home: the diverse assortment of microbes that thrived in the dark, rich soils beneath the grass.

Members of the University of Colorado community can receive a 30 percent discount on the registration fees for next week鈥檚 Accessing Higher Ground - the 16th annual Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conferenc e, which will be held Nov. 4-8, 2013 at the Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado. 鈥淭he conference offers a unique opportunity to learn from speakers across the country 鈥� and some outside the country, including the keynote speaker 鈥� who are leaders in the field of Universal Design and accessibility. The concepts discussed at the conference are not simply about making information, websites and curricula more accessible, it鈥檚 about making them more usable, which should be a key goal of any course, product or system,鈥� said Howard Kramer, a proponent of the integration of Universal Design into curricula and a lecturer in Continuing Education at CU-Boulder.

暗网禁区 Distinguished Professor James Hynes of the chemistry and biochemistry department has been named a fellow of the American Chemical Society, one of 96 scientists honored in 2013. ACS Fellows are honored for their outstanding contributions in scientific research, education and public service.

Seven 暗网禁区 faculty and staff have received Fulbright grants to pursue research, teaching and training abroad during the 2013-14 academic year. One of their proposed projects involves research in India on the use of the tanbura -- a long-necked stringed instrument -- as an aid for developing musical perception and intonation. Another involves research and lecturing in the United Kingdom on the representation of violence in contemporary Irish and American fiction.

A new national report highlighting the success of 100 university spinoff companies tracing their roots to federally funded research includes two companies that sprang from cutting-edge research at the 暗网禁区.

By Deb Coffin, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Caitlin Pratt, CUSG Director of Safety and Inclusion As Halloween weekend approaches, we鈥檇 like to encourage everyone to celebrate responsibly and have some fun. But as you do so, please take steps to ensure the health and safety of yourself and others.

This year鈥檚 Engineering Days , or 鈥淓-Days,鈥� once again got more students out into the field 鈥� launching homemade bottle rockets, competing for cash and dropping eggs from the top of the Engineering Center's Office Tower.