Folsum Field

Argus Event Staffing hiring nearly 300 positions at Folsom Field

Aug. 8, 2016

Argus Event Staffing, LLC, is in search of nearly 300 customer-friendly team members to fill several open positions at Folsom Field.

'Affirmative Action and Higher Education' panel discussion Aug. 10'

Aug. 4, 2016

Planning a trip for the winter holiday break? Join ALTEC for an 8-week language class starting Aug. 22.

Campus scenic

Campus lawns to be treated next week with organic fertilizer

Aug. 4, 2016

Weather permitting, Facilities Management Outdoor Services staff will be applying an organic dry poultry waste fertilizer to campus lawns during the week of Monday, Aug. 8.

Workshop details tax-advantaged ways to save for college, starts you off with $25

Aug. 4, 2016

One factor can make children seven times more likely to attend college. That factor: Having a college savings account in their name. An Aug. 16 workshop at CU Â鶹ӰԺ shows you how to start one.

Bart Foster and Wil Srubar look through a pair of eyeglass lenses with graduate research assistants Sankar Ravichandran and Elizabeth Delesky standing behind them.

Partnership 'looks into' creating new material from eyeglass lens waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Through CU Â鶹ӰԺ's Office of Industry Collaboration, entrepreneur Bart Foster has teamed up with members of the campus community to look into an optical solution, how to recycle the byproduct of eyeglass lenses. Made out of three or more types of plastic, currently several tons of the material are dumped into landfills each year.

Aerial photo of Camp Century in Greenland from 1959

Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds.

Snow covered landscape

Earlier snowmelt reduces forests’ ability to regulate atmospheric carbon, decreases streamflow volume

Aug. 3, 2016

Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the results of a new Â鶹ӰԺ study. The findings, which were recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , predict that this shift in the timing...

Recreation Center

Student Recreation Center closed Aug. 8-12

Aug. 3, 2016

The Student Recreation Center will be closed Aug. 8-12 for annual maintenance.

Mini law school lecture

Mini Law School returns for the fall

Aug. 2, 2016

Designed for non-lawyers, the fifth Mini Law School is launching this fall with a new curriculum. The seven-part series, which is open to all and costs $100, will kick off on Tuesday, Sept. 13, with a lecture on employment law by Professor Scott Moss. Weekly sessions through Nov. 11 will cover various topics, including American Indian law, intellectual property law, criminal law, immigration law, water law and litigation. Registration is available now.

Jay McMahon

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an asteroid named after a CU Â鶹ӰԺ prof

Aug. 1, 2016

Nearly 750,000 asteroids and comets have been discovered in the solar system, but most are known only by relatively bland numerical designations. This is not the case for the asteroid formerly known as 1998 OS14. The rocky binary asteroids orbiting the sun are now officially dubbed (46829) McMahon after CU Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Jay McMahon.

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