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Each morning, University of Colorado at Boulder alumna Julie Fast wakes to the footsteps of "campesinos" hiking past her front door in Peru on their way to their farm fields.

• CU-Boulder is the only university in the world to have designed, built and launched instruments to every planet in the solar system. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics currently has a $12 million instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft now at Saturn, an $8.7 million instrument en route to Mercury on the MESSENGER mission and a student-built dust counter on the New Horizons mission to Pluto launched in 2006.

A $32 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument package set for launch Feb. 10 by NASA should help scientists better understand the violent effects of the sun on near-Earth space weather that can affect satellites, power grids, ground communications systems and even astronauts and aircraft crews.

University of Colorado at Boulder Associate Professor Noah Finkelstein will testify before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on the state of science and math education on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 10:30 a.m. EST in Washington, D.C.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is expanding its recycling program and converting to a dual-stream system with the help of dozens of student employees who provide recycling outreach, collections and processing.

Amid all the commentary focused on the historic tragedy in Haiti, a tough but important fact has gone virtually unmentioned, according to a nationally recognized expert on disasters at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

University of Colorado at Boulder student leaders are heading a campus campaign called "CU Stands With Haiti" aimed at coordinating and unifying the CU community in an effort to raise at least $100,000 in relief for Haiti.

Solar panels installed at the University of Colorado at Boulder on the roofs of the Coors Events/Conference Center, Housing System Maintenance Center and Wolf Law Building will produce 140,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per year -- enough to power 20 medium-sized houses.

A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative.

In 4 million years, human life has undergone several major periods of transition -- each marked by physical remnants of change -- and today's physical evidence suggests that humans may be entering a new epoch marked by a "single, global political entity," according to a prominent archaeologist who will speak on the University of Colorado campus Saturday.