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Student leaders will join the city of Boulder and °µÍø½ûÇø officials next week to welcome students to the community and provide information on being good neighbors. "Walkabout" teams will be in the University Hill, Goss Grove and portions of Martin Acres neighborhoods.

Dozens of activities await new students at the °µÍø½ûÇø starting Aug. 18, including a welcome convocation hosted by Provost Russell Moore and a "Global Jam" international food fest.

Volunteers from a variety of campus groups will be available to help new students move their belongings into °µÍø½ûÇø residence halls Aug. 16 and Aug. 18 as New Student Move-In begins next week.

On Thursday, Aug. 11, the Boulder Fire Department will teach 213 resident advisers and other staff from the °µÍø½ûÇø about fire safety. The goal of the training is for Resident Advising staff to learn how to teach freshmen students about fire safety and how to lead effectively during emergencies.

A new °µÍø½ûÇø study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age.

The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm °µÍø½ûÇø Distinguished Professor Carl Lineberger as a member of the National Science Board. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in April.

Several °µÍø½ûÇø faculty and students are participating in NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and which is expected to help steer scientists toward the right recipe for planet-making.

The °µÍø½ûÇø has released results from a study of its undergraduates' participation in the 2011 "420" gathering on the CU-Boulder campus. The study was done by CU-Boulder's Office of Housing and Dining Services and was sent to all CU-Boulder undergraduate students on April 21, 2011 -- the day after the gathering on the campus.

Minh Than, one of the °µÍø½ûÇø's three Goldwater Scholarship winners in 2011, is spending his summer working in the lab of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and CU-Boulder Professor Min Han.

A group of current and recently graduated °µÍø½ûÇø journalism students won a Heartland Emmy award on Saturday for a video they created while working on the CU Science Update video series.