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The INVST Community Leadership Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been involving CU students in community service since 1990, and on March 12-14, alumni of the program will gather in Â鶹ӰԺ for a 20th anniversary reunion weekend.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ alumna Jane Butcher, who with her late husband Charlie Butcher has played a key role in supporting CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's rapidly expanding biotechnology research efforts, has pledged $1 million toward the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building being built on the university's East Campus.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ officials confirmed Saturday that all six CU-Â鶹ӰԺ students who were studying in Chile or had weekend travel plans to the country for the start of an academic program are safe.

A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

A new approach to social media called "Tweak the Tweet," conceived of by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate student Kate Starbird and being deployed by members of CU's Project EPIC research group and colleagues around the nation, is helping Haiti relief efforts by providing standardized syntax for Twitter communications.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been awarded $840,000 from the National Science Foundation for students to build a tiny spacecraft to observe energetic particles in space that should give scientists a better understanding of solar flares and their interaction with Earth's atmosphere.

Combine the youth and idealism often found on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus with a business degree, and the ability to make a difference in the world takes on new dimensions.

University of Colorado alumnus-astronaut Jim Voss has become the second astronaut to join CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's aerospace engineering sciences department following his NASA career, which for Voss included five spaceflights, 202 days in space and four spacewalks.

A $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ to probe the evolution of galaxies, stars and intergalactic matter from its perch on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is on schedule for its slated May 11 launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard NASA's space shuttle Atlantis.

Nobel laureate Tom Cech is returning to the University of Colorado full time this month after a 10-year stint as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., and one of the nation's largest philanthropies.