First graduates of Colorado Mesa University- CU-Boulder partnership program set to graduate

May 7, 2012

Nine students who make up the first graduating class of the Mechanical Engineering Partnership Program with Colorado Mesa University will receive degrees from the this week. The students have attended classes full time at CMU in Grand Junction, with CMU faculty teaching the lower-division courses and CU-Boulder faculty teaching the upper-division courses.

CU-Boulder commencement to honor more than 6,200 degree candidates May 11

May 4, 2012

The will hold its spring graduation ceremony on Friday, May 11, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field. The ceremony will honor candidates for 6,237 degrees, including 4,830 bachelor’s degrees, 994 master’s degrees, 162 law degrees and 251 doctoral degrees for spring and summer. The number of degree applications is the largest in the school’s history, and comes four years after the record-setting freshman class of fall 2008. That year, 5,833 freshmen enrolled, exceeding the previous record-setting class of 2006 that enrolled 5,617 freshmen.

Next 5 weeks bring rare solar events to Colorado

May 2, 2012

On the afternoon of Sunday, May 20, Colorado will see a “bite” taken out of the sun as the moon moves across the sun causing a partial solar eclipse. The eclipse starts at 6:22 p.m. with maximum eclipse at 7:30 p.m. and the sun will set at 7:50 p.m. The celestial event will mark the most complete solar eclipse the U.S. has seen in more than 10 years, according to Douglas Duncan, director of the ’s Fiske Planetarium.

CU-Boulder faculty member John Wahr elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 1, 2012

Professor John Wahr of the physics department has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

CU graduating senior excels after emigrating from Romania as a political refugee

May 1, 2012

Boroka Bo, a 31-year-old senior sociology major, is graduating May 11 from the , 17 years after emigrating from the Transylvania region of Romania to the United States as a political refugee. This spring, Bo received a prestigious Soros Fellowship, a program that awards 30 fellowships annually to naturalized citizens, green card holders or children of naturalized citizens. It provides up to $90,000 in support to students who plan to use their graduate education to contribute back to their communities.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet visits CU-Boulder campus to celebrate Senate passage of Violence Against Women Act

May 1, 2012

News release from U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet's office

CU-Boulder names Steven Leigh new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

May 1, 2012

Provost Russell L. Moore today named Steven Leigh as dean of CU-Boulder’s College of Arts and Sciences. Leigh currently serves as an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The appointment is effective July 1.

CU’s Center for Community building earns LEED platinum rating

April 27, 2012

The ’s Center for Community has received a LEED platinum rating -- the highest possible designation -- from the United States Green Building Council. LEED certification is a U.S. benchmark for sustainable building design and construction. The $84.4 million Center for Community, with 317,000 gross square feet, is about 30 percent more energy and water efficient than modern code-compliant buildings of the same size and function.

Bear found and moved from Williams Village

April 26, 2012

CUPD news release A University of Colorado student called the CU Police Department at 7:53 a.m. today to report a bear on the loose outside of the Williams Village housing complex. According to the caller, the bear was roaming on a grass field adjacent to the Bear Creek Apartments. He proceeded to a tree along 30th Street, west of Darley Commons.

CU-Boulder to host prescription drug Take-Back Initiative on April 28

April 26, 2012

CUPD news release On Saturday, April 28, the will host a National Take-Back Initiative in hopes that pill abuse and theft will be reduced by ridding homes of potentially dangerous expired and unwanted prescription drugs. The Wardenburg Health Center, Counseling and Psychological Services and the CU-Boulder Police Department will host a prescription drug collection site in support of the National Take-Back Initiative for prescription drugs.

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