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Campus Dining Services and the University Memorial Center are excited to welcome a Starbucks in the UMC, slated to open late spring 2016. The Starbucks will be located in the current Baby Doe’s location.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will be on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus May 16 to sign into law SB14-001, a $2 million appropriation to help fund the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory that involves four state institutions and a number of industry partners.

Jordan Burns, a Â鶹ӰԺ junior majoring in civil engineering, has won a prestigious Truman Scholarship, an honor that brings with it up to $30,000 for graduate study. Burns, who is from Colorado Springs, is CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s ninth recipient of the scholarship and first since 2006.

Three Â鶹ӰԺ students -- Brittany Earle, Mike Lotto and Jeni Sorli, all from the College of Engineering and Applied Science -- have been awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships. The scholarships are worth up to $7,500 and recognize sophomores and juniors who have achieved high academic merit and who are expected to be leaders in their fields.

Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Bernard Amadei has been appointed one of three new Science Envoys who will help strengthen U.S. ties with other countries to address global challenges, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today. Amadei, who holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, along with professors Susan Hockfield of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barbara Schaal of Washington University in St. Louis, make up the third cohort of Science Envoys since the program’s inception in 2009.

More than 100 students, faculty and professional engineers from a seven-state region are expected to gather in Â鶹ӰԺ Oct. 5-7 to learn about sustainable engineering practices that can benefit the developing world. The Â鶹ӰԺ will host the 2012 Mountain Region Conference for Engineers Without Borders-USA, a nonprofit organization founded by CU engineering Professor Bernard Amadei 10 years ago after he was asked to engineer a water pump for a village in Belize.

Every academic year for more than 25 years, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright scholarships and the 2010-11 term is no exception with five recipients heading to other countries for graduate study, advanced research and teaching projects through the U.S. government's flagship international exchange program.