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For the first time in its history, the °µÍø½ûÇø is ranked No. 1 in the nation for graduates serving as Peace Corps volunteers this year with 117 undergraduate alumni currently serving around the world, the Peace Corps announced today.

°µÍø½ûÇø Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano today named Frances Draper associate vice chancellor for strategic relations, effective Feb. 14. Draper currently serves as executive director of the Boulder Economic Council – an arm of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce – in Boulder, Colo.

The temperatures of North Atlantic Ocean water flowing north into the Arctic Ocean adjacent to Greenland -- the warmest water in at least 2,000 years -- are likely related to the amplification of global warming in the Arctic, says a new international study involving the °µÍø½ûÇø.

Job postings and career fair visits by recruiters seeking to hire °µÍø½ûÇø graduates in the spring are coming in fast this year, suggesting an improving job market for spring graduates, according to Lisa Severy, director of CU-Boulder's Career Services office.

The CU Art Museum at the °µÍø½ûÇø opens the largest faculty exhibition to date on Friday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m.

David L. Ikenberry, associate dean in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named dean of the Leeds School of Business at the °µÍø½ûÇø effective Feb. 14.

A helicopter conducting roof thermal imaging of °µÍø½ûÇø buildings will fly over campus two evenings during the week of Jan. 17.

WASHINGTON —Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate change.

Adults who take one of the world's most commonly prescribed sleep medications are significantly more at risk for nighttime falls and potential injury, according to a new study by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A new assessment of global earthquake fatalities over the past three decades indicates that 83 percent of all deaths caused by the collapse of buildings during earthquakes occurred in countries considered to be unusually corrupt.