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When two Columbine High School students shot and killed 12 classmates and a teacher, it forever changed the way that law enforcement agencies respond to active shooter incidents. Gone are the days of waiting for the SWAT team to arrive. The first police officers on scene are now expected to immediately assess the threat and minimize additional injuries and loss of life.

A new study by an international team of scientists analyzing ice cores from the Greenland ice sheet going back in time more than 100,000 years indicates the last interglacial period may be a good analog for where the planet is headed in terms of increasing greenhouse gases and rising temperatures.

When a sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the °µÍø½ûÇø launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging.

The °µÍø½ûÇø’s Hillel and the Program in Jewish Studies are proud to be collaborating in the presentation of events for CU’s 29th Annual Holocaust Awareness Week. The date coincides with the United Nations’ International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is Jan. 27 and commemorates the anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. With the creation of International Holocaust Remembrance in Day in 2005, every member nation of the U.N.

It’s a brisk January day on the °µÍø½ûÇø campus, but Yousef Husain enjoys the chill in the air. He is a Kuwait native looking forward to a change in climate and a change in academic opportunities as a new student in CU-Boulder’s International English Center (IEC) .

The following is a news release from the Boulder Police Department: Residents will see more police officers on patrol in central Boulder as part of a new Neighborhood Impact Team approach the police department is implementing to prioritize problem-solving and police response in those areas.

CU's new "Esteemed Scholars Program" may help slow the exodus of great students to other states.

Executive chef Kerry Paterson is the man behind the menus at CU-Boulder's Housing and Dining Services. A native of New Zealand, he's brought a global palate to the Center for Community, and strives to incorporate all the senses into the culinary experience. Get an inside look at what it takes to dish out more than 14,000 meals a day, while keeping things fresh and new.

A new NASA-led study involving the °µÍø½ûÇø finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters. Ozone is both a major air pollutant with known adverse health effects and a greenhouse gas that traps heat from escaping Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists and policy analysts are interested in learning how curbing the emissions of ozone-forming chemicals can improve human health and also help mitigate climate change.

To reflect its broader focus, the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, a research consortium including the °µÍø½ûÇø, the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has adopted a new name: the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory.