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A prize-winning composition by a University of Colorado at Boulder student that seeks to reflect in music what our Founding Fathers were feeling when they gathered to write the Constitution will be performed in a concert in celebration of Constitution Day, Sept. 17.

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In the largest research contract ever awarded to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been selected by NASA to lead a $485 million orbiting space mission slated to launch in 2013 to probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential for harboring life over the ages.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's 2008 Homecoming festivities kick off Friday, Oct. 3, at 5:15 p.m. with a parade through Boulder's University Hill neighborhood. Olympian Jenny Barringer will be Grand Marshal along with many current and former CU and Boulder County Olympians.

With the Sept. 17 anniversary of the death of University of Colorado at Boulder student Lynn "Gordie" Bailey Jr. approaching, the CU student-founded group Guidelines and Objectives of Responsible Drinking, or G.O.R.D., is honoring his memory by hosting several events emphasizing the dangers of binge drinking Sept. 12-17.

University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson will give an overview of his goals and priorities for the University of Colorado at Boulder in a speech on Friday, Sept. 12, in Old Main Chapel.

A three-stop gallery walk will launch Arts and Culture Week at the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Friday, Sept. 19.

The University of Colorado at Boulder announced today that Dennis Maloney, chief technology officer, will retire from his position effective Nov. 30.

A group of University of Colorado at Boulder physics department faculty and students involved in the Large Hadron Collider project are expecting some big surprises following the successful activation of the world's brawniest particle accelerator near Geneva this morning.

The Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies will be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder Sept. 12-14 and is expected to bring about 200 scholars from Europe, Asia and the Americas to campus.