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The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space and across the solar system.

U.S. Rep. John Salazar praised the efforts of federal, state and private groups, including University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and student archaeologists, who are working together to investigate and restore the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area near Pagosa Springs, Colo. The site is considered one of the most spectacular Ancestral Pueblo ruins in all of the Southwest.

I sincerely hope that this verdict will bring closure to a long and painful chapter in the lives of Susannah's family and friends. The university community continues to remember Susannah Chase as one of our CU-Boulder family. Her life reminds us all of what is best in CU students, and her death is a testimony to the need to keep working to rid our community of violence against women, violent crime in general, and all of the factors that lead to both. -CU-

Louise Bennett Reed, who passed away at age 103 last June, gave gifts totaling more than $4.75 million for University of Colorado at Boulder athletic scholarships, making her the largest individual donor to the CU-Boulder Athletics department.

Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is preparing to begin construction on a new building for the Institute of Behavioral Science, or IBS. The pre-construction work is scheduled to start on Monday, July 6, with excavation beginning in the middle of July.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will launch a certificate program in digital media, in partnership with the parent company of Boulder advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet.

With unique classes that aren't offered during the spring and fall and a roster of extraordinary faculty, the University of Colorado at Boulder's summer session is an exciting and fruitful alternative to a summer break. Best of all, the university brings in teachers from around the globe through a program titled Faculty-In-Residence Summer Term, or FIRST.

Eighty-eight percent of the country's top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a new study published today in Northwestern University School of Law's Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology authored by Professor Michael Radelet, chair of the sociology department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Traci Lacock, an attorney and CU-Boulder graduate student in sociology.