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University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and students will participate in a nationwide project exploring the origins, structure and evolution of tornadoes by probing both the early and late stages of severe storms over the central Great Plains this spring.

Nobel laureate Tom Cech is returning to the University of Colorado full time this month after a 10-year stint as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., and one of the nation's largest philanthropies.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is hosting four alcohol-screening events April 13-16 where students can have a professional assessment of their drinking patterns and the risks associated with those patterns.

While the job market for college students graduating this spring is definitely tough, there are jobs available to those willing to be flexible and patient in their job searches and goals, according to Lisa Severy, director of the University of Colorado at Boulder's Career Services office.

The following University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and staff are available to comment on various aspects of the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings:

Any Colorado school can access a powerful new tool in school safety planning offered at no cost by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Separated from the West by thousands of miles and seemingly insurmountable cultural barriers, China has long been an unfamiliar, romanticized land -- until recently. In a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service exhibit opening at the CU Heritage Center, visitors will glimpse China from an insider's point of view through 57 dramatic photographs taken by seven Chinese photographers.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will test the Campus Alerts text-messaging system on April 13 at noon.

The newest construction project on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus - a Center for Community located just south of Hallett Hall off of Regent Drive - will celebrate breaking ground on April 13 with a ceremony highlighting the beginning of excavation for the 323,000-square-foot project.

The artistic interplay of aural and visual technologies will be featured in the University of Colorado at Boulder's ATLAS Institute on Friday, April 17, as part of the citywide Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts.