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University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson and his wife, Val, are inviting the campus and Boulder community to attend an April 30 open house luncheon to learn more about the importance of foster parenting and to be part of a new university scholarship program supporting college-bound students exiting the foster care system.

A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could modify climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and even amplify Antarctic warming, according to scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

Billy Kardys, lead chef for the University of Colorado at Boulder's Piazanos café, says the 2,000 students who visit the café daily won't have sea bass on the menu anytime soon, but a bass dish he created garnered him first prize in a regional culinary challenge for campus chefs.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education a $2.8 million grant that will allow graduate students to collaborate with Boulder Valley School District teachers to "bring science out of the box" and inspire young students to follow in their footsteps toward science careers.

• Based on the CU system's main revenue sources – tuition, fees and state funding – the university is recommending a 9.3 percent tuition increase for resident undergraduate students on the CU-Boulder campus.

Kenneth Bickers, professor and chair of the political science department, can comment on this year's presidential election, the youth vote, campaign issues and tactics, and what polling can tell us.

University of Colorado at Boulder students will work in teams to construct the most elaborate, colorful and surprising sculptures out of food cans in Carlson Gymnasium during the inaugural Buffalo Can Challenge on Friday, April 25.

An avalanche of accolades for University of Colorado at Boulder senior Ben Safdi continued this spring when he was named one of 13 Churchill Scholars in the United States for 2008, an award carrying a $25,000 academic scholarship for a year of study at Cambridge University in England.

A team of top National Geographic magazine editors, photographers and a broadcast producer will present a workshop in multimedia journalism at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday, April 25.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will recognize four distinguished engineering alumni and the past chair of the engineering college advisory board at the 43rd annual Engineering Awards Banquet on April 25.