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The Boulder County Sheriff, in cooperation with the Boulder Chief of Police, today closed Boulder Creek to watercraft for the immediate future due to high-volume water flow. The closure spans from Barker Dam east of Nederland to the Weld County line north of Erie, and includes the section that flows through the City of Boulder and adjacent to the CU-Boulder main campus and through the East Campus. There is no direct threat to campus at this time.

A new study shows a thick organic haze that enshrouded early Earth several billion years ago may have been similar to the haze now hovering above Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and would have protected primordial life on the planet from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation.

The University of Colorado at Boulder today announced that Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement Sallye McKee has resigned from her position and will leave the university for personal and family reasons. The move is effective June 30.

When it comes to investing money in the stock market, actively rebalancing your portfolio is so critical that it can help turn individual investment losers into winners, according to University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Michael Stutzer.

The thought of a run-of-the-mill science course entailing lectures, note taking and textbook experiments is enough for some students to look for another field of study. Fortunately, the learning environment for many undergraduate science majors at the University of Colorado at Boulder far exceeds typical classroom activities and allows students to work in the lab side-by-side with faculty.

The University of Colorado at Boulder today announced that Deborah W. Fowlkes (pronounced "folks") has been named executive director of the University of Colorado Alumni Association. Fowlkes, who will assume the post on July 26, currently serves as assistant vice president for alumni relations and executive director of the Temple University Alumni Association in Philadelphia.

Five journalists have been selected as 2010-11 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano today named Russell L. Moore interim provost at CU-Boulder. Moore currently serves as interim vice chancellor for research. The appointment begins July 1.

The University of Colorado at Boulder today named Dr. Donald Misch as assistant vice chancellor for health and wellness and director of the campus's Wardenburg Health Center effective July 1. Misch currently serves as executive director of Northwestern University Health Service in Evanston, Ill., a post he has held since 2003.

The ancestor of all hammerhead sharks probably appeared abruptly in Earth's oceans about 20 million years ago and was as big as some contemporary hammerheads, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.