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Coping with natural resources law and policy challenges in the 21st century, from mineral extraction to water and forest management, will be the focus of the University of Colorado at Boulder Natural Resources Law Center's 25th Anniversary Summer Conference. Titled "The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy," the conference will be held June 6-8 at the Wolf Law Building on the CU-Boulder campus.

Ethan Van Duzer, a 2006 business graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, is a semi-finalist in the international film competition "Film Your Issue 2007." The competition is limited to young adults, aged 16 to 25, who were required to create a one-minute film about controversial cultural and political issues.

A University of Colorado at Boulder program that encourages students to spend spring break helping other people has collected more than 1,600 college textbooks to help communities in several African nations.

The University of Colorado at Boulder today announced that a computer server in the College of Arts and Sciences' Academic Advising Center, which had been recently attacked with a worm, had exposed 44,998 student names and Social Security numbers, prompting the campus to institute a new series of Information Technology security measures. The students, enrolled at CU-Boulder from 2002 to the present, are being notified by the University of Colorado at Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences.

Saturn's largest and most dense ring is composed of tightly packed clumps of particles separated by nearly empty gaps, according to new findings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The clumps in Saturn's B ring are neatly organized and constantly colliding, which surprised scientists.

Registration is open for a national symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder that will explore how music can affect individuals and societies in positive and often therapeutic ways. The fifth annual Susan Porter Music and Health in America Symposium will take place June 28 through June 30 in the Imig Music Building on the CU-Boulder campus and at several other Boulder venues.

Nine undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder have received the prestigious Jacob Van Ek Award. The recipients were honored this month for outstanding academic achievement and contributions to the university and Boulder communities. The faculty members the students named as mentors also were recognized. The award was established in 1973 to honor Jacob Van Ek, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder from 1929 to 1959. Van Ek died in 1994 at the age of 97.

Professor Stein Sture, the Huber and Helen Croft Endowed Professor in the department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate School at CU-Boulder, Provost Phil DiStefano announced today. DiStefano said Sture's academic background, administrative experience and knowledge of CU-Boulder weighed in his favor as the top candidate for the position.

°µÍø½ûÇø 230 migrant and seasonal workers who have earned their general education diplomas, or GEDs, through the University of Colorado at Boulder's High School Equivalency Program will graduate on Friday, May 25. The ceremony, expected to draw about 1,000 family members, starts at 7 p.m. in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom on the CU-Boulder campus. Many of the graduates are from the High School Equivalency Program site in Brighton.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has signed an initial partnership agreement to participate in the design and construction of a 25-meter, far-infrared telescope that will be located in the Chilean desert to probe the distant galaxies, stellar nurseries and outer reaches of the solar system.