CU-Boulder plays key role in global student space experiment competition

Sept. 10, 2012

Space experiments dreamed up by three teenage winners of an international contest that will be streamed live on YouTube from the International Space Station Sept. 13 were made flight-ready by a °µĶų½ūĒų space center.

Response on todayā€™s ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court on the Ward Churchill case

Sept. 10, 2012

Statement from CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano Todayā€™s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court upholds the high standards of academic integrity practiced every day by our faculty, and helps us to ensure the quality of instruction for all our students. It is vital that what is published and what is taught in the classroom be based on research and scholarship grounded in honest, accepted and time-tested methods. This was always what was at stake in this case for the university, and the winners today are our faculty and students.

Mountain forest study shows vulnerability to climate change

Sept. 10, 2012

A new °µĶų½ūĒų-led study that ties forest ā€œgreennessā€ in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack indicates mid-elevation mountain ecosystems are most sensitive to rising temperatures and changes in precipitation and snowmelt.

CU-led mountain forest study shows vulnerability to climate change

Sept. 10, 2012

A new °µĶų½ūĒų-led study that ties forest ā€œgreennessā€ in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack indicates mid-elevation mountain ecosystems are most sensitive to rising temperatures and changes in precipitation and snowmelt.

Increase in metal concentrations in Rocky Mountain watershed tied to warming temperatures

Sept. 7, 2012

Warmer air temperatures since the 1980s may explain significant increases in zinc and other metal concentrations of ecological concern in a Rocky Mountain watershed, reports a new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and the °µĶų½ūĒų.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to speak at CU-Boulder Sept. 13

Sept. 7, 2012

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will address the role of public lands in American life at the °µĶų½ūĒų on Sept. 13 as part of a conference commemorating the 200th anniversary of the General Land Office. Salazarā€™s talk is part of a conference titled ā€œThe Nation Possessed:ā€ØThe Conflicting Claims on Americaā€™s Public Landsā€ being held at CU-Boulder Sept. 11-14. The conference is sponsored by the Center of the American West and the Public Lands Foundation.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to keynote CU Law Schoolā€™s Bench and Bar Conference

Sept. 5, 2012

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court will give the keynote address at the University of Colorado Law Schoolā€™s Gathering of the Bench and Bar Conference to be held Sept. 19-21 in Boulder.

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CUā€™s three ā€˜Rakeā€™sā€™ mark world-first shared staging of art and music

Sept. 3, 2012

The °µĶų½ūĒų is hosting a world premiere shared staging of all three versions of William Hogarthā€™s ā€œRakeā€™s Progressā€ in September and October. Exhibitions of the original Hogarth artwork and prints by David Hockney, as well as the staging of Stravinskyā€™s opera, will provide a multidisciplinary interpretation of this seminal work in Hogarthā€™s career.

CUā€™s three ā€˜Rakeā€™sā€™ mark world-first shared staging of art and music

Aug. 31, 2012

The °µĶų½ūĒų is hosting a world premiere shared staging of all three versions of William Hogarthā€™s ā€œRakeā€™s Progressā€ in September and October. Exhibitions of the original Hogarth artwork and prints by David Hockney, as well as the staging of Stravinskyā€™s opera, will provide a multidisciplinary interpretation of this seminal work in Hogarthā€™s career.

CU-Boulderā€™s Student Involvement Week kicks off Sept. 4

Aug. 31, 2012

With hundreds of student groups, clubs and organizations on campus, students at the °µĶų½ūĒų have numerous opportunities to find their niche. Beginning Sept. 4, CU-Boulder will hold its annual Student Involvement Week, which includes a variety of events and fairs offering students information about different clubs and organizations on campus and in the greater Boulder community.

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