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A tiny satellite designed, built and tested by °µÍø½ûÇø students to study solar flares may launch as early as Aug. 14 from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, Calif.

If you’re a planetarium junkie in the Boulder area, your experience is about to get a major upgrade. The astrophysical and planetary sciences department, home to Fiske Planetarium, announced today the launch of a complete upgrade to the projection and other presentation systems that power the planetarium’s big-screen experience. The remodel will turn the dome of the planetarium into an all-encompassing video theater.

Despite sharp increases in carbon dioxide emissions by humans in recent decades that are warming the planet, Earth’s vegetation and oceans continue to soak up about half of them, according to a surprising new study led by the °µÍø½ûÇø.

Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget and Finance Steven McNally today announced two finalists for the position of vice chancellor for administration at the °µÍø½ûÇø. The search committee, chaired by McNally, has recommended Kambiz Khalili, interim assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and executive director of housing and dining services on the CU-Boulder campus, and Louise Vale, director of internal audit for the University of Colorado System, as the two finalists.

The °µÍø½ûÇø today released figures on the visit of President Barack Obama to campus on April 24 that showed the visit cost just under $110,000. Funding for the visit will come from existing insurance rebates to the university, and will not result in any tuition or fee increase to students or reductions in campus budgets.

The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent, says a new international study led by CU-Boulder researcher Paola Villa, a curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History .

The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent, says a new international study led by the °µÍø½ûÇø.

Scholarships that help students afford college, including one in Boulder for participants in precollegiate programs. A new Colorado Springs program that inspires and prepares students to become K-12 teachers in technical disciplines. An innovative center for commodities to anchor a new downtown Denver business school building. Endowed chairs that support faculty excellence in women’s health research, childhood dental medicine, and adult diabetes on our medical campus.

CU Opera provided student vocalists for the lead roles in the Colorado Music Festival’s presentation of Hans Krasa’s “Brundibar," June 28-29.

BY PHILIP P. DISTEFANO Last Friday, our state once again bore witness to a horrific act of violence that has stunned all of us. Like the Columbine shootings 13 years ago, the Aurora movie theater murders are a challenge to our hearts, our minds and our community itself.