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A new study examining two possible factors leading to "environmental racism" finds that although the average black or Hispanic resident of a major U.S. city lives in a more polluted part of town than the average white person, the levels of inequality vary widely between cities and defy simple explanation.

Colorado's economy will continue to grow in a steady and manageable way during the second half of 2007, according to Richard Wobbekind, an economist with the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. "We went into the year predicting a little bit of a slow down, a 1.9 percent job growth rate," Wobbekind said. "Right now we're slightly lower than that, but actually we're pretty much on the mark because we think the second half of the year is going to be stronger."

Award-winning University of Colorado at Boulder film Professor Kathleen Man has finished work on a new film about body image and how the personal and cultural demands for beauty and perfection in America nearly destroyed the life of one Boulder, Colo., woman.

The University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Biological Science Initiative is sponsoring four stem-cell lectures July 11 through July 13 on campus as part of a K-12 teacher education workshop. The lectures are free and open to the public.

The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication will use a $75,000 grant from the James M. Cox Foundation to launch a three-year, traveling program designed to empower journalists and other citizens in communities throughout Colorado with professional newsgathering techniques and hard-nosed tips for negotiating the "invisible Web." Foundation trustees approved the grant in late April for a program named in honor of George Orbanek, a CU-Boulder alumnus and longtime publisher of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, a Cox Newspapers Inc. publication.

Administrators at the University of Colorado at Boulder's William M. White Business Library will begin moving books and a reference collection into the campus' newly renovated and expanded business building on July 9. Books will be temporarily inaccessible, and administrators are encouraging students and other users to check out required items as soon as possible.

The legacy of Gilbert F. White, renowned University of Colorado at Boulder geography professor who died last fall, will be examined during the CU-Boulder Natural Hazards Center's 32nd annual summer workshop.

The University of Colorado at Boulder today announced its budget, tuition and financial aid figures for the 2007-08 academic year and unveiled the largest financial aid package in the 130-year history of the university. Under CU-Boulder's plan, expected to be approved by the University of Colorado Board of Regents today at the board's regularly scheduled meeting, the average tuition increase for a full-time resident undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, CU-Boulder's largest college, will be approximately $332 a semester or $664 per year.

A high-flying NASA mission over Costa Rica and Panama in July and August should help scientists better understand how tropical storms influence global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion, says a University of Colorado at Boulder professor who is one of two mission scientists for the massive field campaign.

A new study spearheaded by the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center indicates wind-blown dust from drought-stricken and disturbed lands in the Southwest can shorten the duration of mountain snow cover hundreds of miles away in the Colorado mountains by roughly a month.