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An array of activities await new students at the University of Colorado at Boulder beginning Aug. 21 including a welcome convocation hosted by Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson, a “Global Jam” featuring international food and music, hiking and biking tours, outdoor movies and picnics.

University of Colorado at Boulder students take their recreation seriously, and to prove it they voted to spend $5.7 million to improve campus intramural sports fields, such as Farrand Field. CU-Boulder's newly renovated Farrand Field, a longtime student favorite for studying, playing sports and relaxing, will be dedicated on Friday, Aug. 17, at 12:30 p.m. Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson will give a speech during the ceremony. The dedication also will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony, talks from student representatives and yard games.

Paid enrollment deposits for new freshmen at the University of Colorado at Boulder this fall indicate that the campus can likely expect another large freshman class in the fall of 2007. Early numbers show the class will be between 5,500 and 5,600 students. The campus enrolled 5,617 new freshmen in fall 2006, its largest freshman class ever. Final enrollment figures for fall 2007 will not be available until mid-September, about a week after the official campus census date of Sept. 14.

A publication of Institutional Investor, "Foundation and Endowment Money Management," has named the University of Colorado Foundation a finalist for "large nonprofit of the year" in its 2007 Nonprofit Awards for Excellence program.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business faculty and staff officially moved into their new home, the newly expanded and renovated Koelbel Building, today.

Sallye McKee, associate to the president for institutional diversity at Metropolitan State College of Denver, has been named the first vice chancellor for diversity, equity and community engagement at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A reversal of tectonic plate motion between Acapulco and Mexico City in the last half of 2006 probably didnÂ’t ease seismic strain in the region or the specter of a major earthquake anticipated there in the coming decades, says a University of Colorado at Boulder professor.

Following the recent death of a University of Colorado at Boulder student, public health experts in Boulder are encouraging students, faculty and staff to learn more about hantavirus, a serious respiratory disease. CU-Boulder aerospace engineering student Jason Dinges, 20, died from hantavirus complications on July 15. He was spending the summer at his parents' Park County, Colo., home at the time of his death.

MEDIA ADVISORY The University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business will open its newly expanded and renovated home, the Koelbel Building, to media on Monday, Aug. 6. Reporters and photographers are invited to tour the building with Leeds School Dean Dennis A. Ahlburg at 10:30 a.m. The tour will start in the building's Centers Board Room, located on the first floor off the main entrance on the south side of Koebel Building facing Regent Drive.

Roof-integrated photovoltaic panels will be installed today by University of Colorado at Boulder students on the school's latest Solar Decathlon entry as part of a project update for the fall competition, the third of three competitions to date that CU-Boulder won previously in 2002 and 2005. The defending champions - with new student engineers at the helm - will describe what promises to be the team's most innovative Solar Decathlon entry. The sponsors and student participants will give a brief project update at 10 a.m. today while installation of the solar system gets underway.