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University of Colorado at Boulder students and members of the community are being sought for a series of free master classes and directors' labs taught by entertainment industry professionals from Disney Theatricals and Cirque du Soleil, a Tony Award-winning conductor and musical director, and a Tony Award-winning Broadway director.

Gases rising from deep within the Earth are fueling the world's highest-known microbial ecosystems, which have been detected near the rim of the 19,850-foot-high Socompa volcano in the Andes by a University of Colorado at Boulder research team.

The latest addition to the University of Colorado at Boulder campus - a Visual Arts Complex located near the University Memorial Center - will reach a major milestone on March 5 with a topping-off ceremony celebrating the completion of the skeletal structure of the 170,000-square-foot, $63.5 million arts complex.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is advising students to exercise caution this spring break, whether they are staying around the Boulder area or traveling to a destination within the United States or out of the country.

Changing Media. Paul Voakes, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, can discuss the rapid decline in the mainstream media workforce and the implications for journalism school enrollments and journalism education more broadly. Voakes can be reached by e-mail at paul.voakes@colorado.edu . His office number is 303-492-4364.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will celebrate Asia Day, a one-day festival hosted by the CU Center for Asian Studies to celebrate the diverse cultures and traditions of Asia and to share CU-Boulder's Asian area expertise with the broader Front Range community.

Commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate pollutants into the air globally as the total amount released by the world's cars, according to a new study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and horses that roamed North America until their extinction about 13,000 years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study.

The University System Board of Regents today appointed University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson president of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

University of Colorado at Boulder administrators have launched a comprehensive space science and engineering initiative that will bring together faculty and students across campus now participating in a broad swath of space-related research.