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April 24, 2015 Michael Shull 25 years ago today that shiny, bus-sized silver tube we call the Hubble Space Telescope was put into orbit 340 miles above Earth. And ever since it has dazzled us with breathtaking pictures of nebulae, stars and galaxies and much more, says Michael Shull, an astrophysicist at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ.

In another advance at the far frontiers of timekeeping by National Institute of Standards and Technology and Â鶹ӰԺ researchers, the latest modification of a record-setting strontium atomic clock has achieved precision and stability levels that now mean the clock would neither gain nor lose one second in some 15 billion years—roughly the age of the universe.

This week when you walk around campus, you might see a series of posters asking you to report Bias Motivated Incidents (BMI’s). The posters, which are part of a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ student-led campaign, use very graphic language to bring attention to the need to report acts of bias on our campus. I am joining the students in asking you to report these incidents by visiting www.colorado.edu/reportit , so we can provide support services and administrative action as appropriate.

Trust me, I'm a doctor. This is a column about health issues by Dr. Donald Misch, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Senior Assistant Vice Chancellor of Health and Wellness and Executive Director of Wardenburg Health Services on campus.

This week is Be Â鶹ӰԺ Week, and as such, campus is alit with chances to proclaim your love for our hallowed school. As well as celebrating school pride, campus is serving up multiple opportunities for you to meet new people and get involved in your preferred area of campus life.

Â鶹ӰԺ police are searching for 20-year-old Berry Tyler Allen, a Â鶹ӰԺ student who was reported missing by his parents on April 18, 2015. The student goes by the name of Tyler. He was last seen on April 11, 2015, and he last communicated with friends via text message on April 16, 2015.

The chair of the Â鶹ӰԺ history department today won the Pulitzer Prize for history for her book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People . Associate Professor Elizabeth Fenn said she first learned of the prize when she received an email from a New York Times reporter. A short while later, she received official notification from her editor. In the meantime, her phone started ringing and people started showing up at her office door.

Two faculty members at the Â鶹ӰԺ have been named 2015 President’s Teaching Scholars, a systemwide designation that recognizes CU educators who skillfully integrate teaching and research at an exceptional level. This year's scholars are Roseanna Neupauer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty Director for Civil Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Valerie Otero, Ph.D., Professor of Science Education, School of Education.

The Offices of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Dean of the Graduate School are pleased to extend congratulations to the three winners of the 2015 Distinguished Research Lecturer. The Lectureship is among the highest honors bestowed by the faculty on a fellow faculty member at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ. This year's winners are Zoya Popovic from the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Diane McKnight from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Douglas Seals from the Department of Integrative Physiology.

A Â鶹ӰԺ and North Carolina State University-led team has produced the first atlas of airborne microbes across the continental U.S., a feat that has implications for better understanding health and disease in humans, animals and crops.