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When you’re a master’s candidate, in your final semester, you don’t have a lot of time for yourself. Your days are spent writing, researching, neglecting to sleep. And when you’re working toward your master’s in music, a good chunk of your day is spent practicing. That said, sometimes an opportunity presents itself that’s so good—an opportunity that will demand weeks of your precious time—that turning it down isn’t an option.

A sustainability alliance formed in 2009 by Â鶹ӰԺ County, the city of Â鶹ӰԺ, Â鶹ӰԺ Valley School District and the Â鶹ӰԺ will update the community during a town-gown forum May 4 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

A new Â鶹ӰԺ study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by drinking generally trump physically hazardous drinking behaviors when it comes to overall mortality rates.

Dead Week is upon us once more. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The following events can serve to facilitate the transition to finals week by providing an alternative activity to enjoy as a break from your studies.

The Dean of Students office is seeking applications for its Student Advisory Board. Students who are passionate about the quality of student life and the co-curricular student experience at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ are invited to apply.

On behalf of the entire CU-Â鶹ӰԺ community, I am pleased that CU-Â鶹ӰԺ student Berry Tyler Allen is safe and has returned to Â鶹ӰԺ. My thanks to all the volunteers who worked with Mr. and Mrs. Allen to search for Tyler; the Â鶹ӰԺ Police, who the led the investigation into his disappearance, and the CU staff and Â鶹ӰԺ community members who have supported his family during this ordeal. The campus and Â鶹ӰԺ communities rose to the occasion to support one of our own and demonstrated the care and commitment that defines our university.

Â鶹ӰԺ astronomers, who helped design and build instruments for and have made hundreds of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch, are celebrating the observatory’s 25th anniversary.

The Â鶹ӰԺ, recently named Colorado’s host for the First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare national tour, is pleased to announce the First Folio exhibition will be open to the public at the CU Art Museum Aug. 9-31 in 2016.

An international team of scientists is calling for urgent and rigorous monitoring of temperature patterns in mountain regions after compiling evidence that high elevations could be warming faster than previously thought.

With an increase in business filings in Colorado through the first quarter of 2015 -- including new and renewing entities and trade names -- employment in the state is expected to keep growing during the second and third quarters of the year, according to a Â鶹ӰԺ report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams.