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John Wood, founder of the international nonprofit organization "Room to Read," will give the commencement address during the University of Colorado at Boulder's spring graduation ceremony on Friday, May 7, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field.

More than 40 11th-graders from the Denver School of Science and Technology will get a close-up look at college-level engineering design at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Thursday, April 29, the last voting day of the White House Commencement Challenge.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has received a $15 million grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be used toward the ongoing construction of a revolutionary biotechnology and biomedical research facility where faculty and students will tackle a variety of human health challenges.

Chayla Rowley, a junior in civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder who plans to work with tribal nations to provide healthy water supplies, has been awarded a national Udall Scholarship.

University of Colorado at Boulder social scientist Liesel Ritchie is one of three disaster researchers who will discuss their work in Haiti in a nationwide April 27 webcast hosted by the National Science Foundation.

Beginning today, the University of Colorado at Boulder could be picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. As many of you know, this organization targets traditions and institutions ranging from military funerals to public schools to drive home a strongly anti-gay, hateful, despicable set of messages.

A new study exploring the growing worldwide problem of nitrogen pollution from soils to the sea shows that global ratios of nitrogen and carbon in the environment are inexorably linked, a finding that may lead to new strategies to help mitigate regional problems ranging from contaminated waterways to human health.

University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and students will join a storm-chasing science team for the second year in a row across the nation's infamous "Tornado Alley" this spring in an effort to understand how and why tornadoes form and evolve in order to improve warning forecasts of the violent events.

Todd Gleeson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and chair of the search committee for provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, announced today that Robert J. Sternberg has withdrawn as a candidate for the position at CU-Boulder in order to pursue a pending offer at another university.

Engineering students at the University of Colorado at Boulder are ramping up for a week of intense activity April 20 to 24, when they will celebrate Engineering Days and complete hands-on design projects for demonstration to the community at the Engineering Design Expo.