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Two University of Colorado at Boulder faculty members are among 33 researchers selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Chevy Chase, Md., to participate in a $40 million pilot program to pursue large, collaborative and potentially transformative biomedical research.

A $1.2 million gift from the Tang Fund of New York to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the largest endowed gift ever made to the Center for Asian Studies, will allow students to experience China through a new study abroad program.

A strong La Niña that developed early last winter, only to disappear this summer, is showing signs of life again and could affect our winter weather, said University of Colorado at Boulder and NOAA atmospheric scientist Klaus Wolter.

If you're thinking about traveling abroad this year, don't go straight to your travel agent. First, stop by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Office of International Education and see just how far your education can take you.

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor of Law, Dayna Bowen Matthew, an expert in public health law, policy and ethics, will deliver the 2008 Distinguished Austin W. Scott Lecture at the Colorado Law School, Nov. 20.

Power has been restored to the CU Recreation Center and it is has returned to normal hours except for the Ice Rink, which will open at 5 p.m.

The University of Colorado at Boulder applied mathematics department has been awarded a $450,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to introduce pre-examination "oral assessments" in a number of courses to improve student understanding.

Val Peterson, wife of University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson, has been named president of the ARCS Foundation's Colorado chapter.

Ryan Kobrick, a University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral candidate, has had the dream of being an astronaut since he was a kid. He is now working toward that dream while studying the abrasive nature of lunar dust, with the goal of helping scientists design better, safer and more durable spacesuits and spacecraft.

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $2 million for graduate students to design, build and launch four payloads on sounding rockets from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to study X-ray emissions from the edges of the solar system and beyond.