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°µÍø½ûÇø Vice Chancellor for Strategic Relations Frances Draper today named Mark J. Miller as spokesperson and issues coordinator for the CU-Boulder campus, effective Nov. 4, 2013. Miller currently serves as spokesperson and associate director for marketing and communications for Drury University in Springfield, Mo., and brings more than two decades of media management and broadcast media experience to the post. He is also a 1990 CU-Boulder graduate in journalism.

More than seven hundred Boulder campus staff turned out on Thursday, Sept. 5 to enjoy sunshine and ice cream on the east terrace of the Center for Community. The event included more than 25 Boulder-area merchants and many campus service providers.

Janet Mock, an award-winning writer who has shared her experience as a transgender woman, will speak at CU-Boulder on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom.

Electrical currents born from thunderstorms are able to flow through the atmosphere and around the globe, causing a detectable electrification of the air even in places with no thunderstorm activity.

CU-Boulder’s Program Council is hard at work scheduling a lineup of national and local bands, film screenings, comedy shows and other special events for 2013-14. In the process, the students and volunteers are learning career-making skills in how to run a professional production company.

Professor of Civil Engineering and founder of Engineers without Borders-USA, Bernard Amadei will discuss the intertwined roles of science, technology, and engineering necessary in sustainable human development. The issues of poverty, social justice, shelter, food security, and infrastructure development are only a few of the challenges that require multiple perspectives to develop innovative and sustainable solutions. The talk will be held on Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in Math 100, and will be followed by a Q&A.

During the spring 2013 semester, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) distributed a campus-wide survey designed to identify client satisfaction levels and areas of improvement for OIT-provided services. The results of this survey are available for your review in the Summary of the Results & Highlights of Findings from the 2013 Annual Proactive Survey report located on the OIT website.

The confidence of Colorado business leaders has slightly declined going into the fourth quarter as uncertainty facing a potential government shutdown and the federal deficit increased, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the °µÍø½ûÇø’s Leeds School of Business.

Taking breaks from the stress of a startup improves experienced entrepreneurs’ mental well-being, but not inexperienced entrepreneurs’ well-being, says a study led by the °µÍø½ûÇø.

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