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By Christina Gonzales, Dean of Students Melissa Zak, Chief, CU Police Department As spring approaches, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you of some health and safety tips to keep in mind.

Please come join us April 1 at 3 p.m. in the newly renovated Glenn Miller Ballroom for our annual Spring Town Hall event. This year we are taking a completely new approach. I have invited Senior Vice Chancellor Kelly Fox and Provost Russ Moore to join me in a new, informal, panel discussion format. CUSG executive Juedon Kebede and CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Professor and Environmental Studies Coordinator Sharon Collinge will act as moderators and ask us questions about the campus, our finances, our key initiatives and many other topics. Please send your questions to chancellor@colorado.edu and we will provide as many of them as possible to the moderators.

A new study by a team of Cassini mission scientists led by the Â鶹ӰԺ have found that microscopic grains of rock detected near Saturn imply hydrothermal activity is taking place within the moon Enceladus.

How has the scarcity of water in the American West resulted in so much controversy? A free online course offered beginning April 1 by experts at the Â鶹ӰԺ will answer that question and take students on a virtual journey, following water as it makes its way from snow-capped peaks to the taps in the drier valleys across the Western United States.

This week I encourage you to step outside of your comfort zone and immerse yourself in an area of campus life you would usually ignore. Enjoy some comedy or check out one of the many Cultural Events Board-sponsored events.

CU System news release University of Colorado graduate programs hold dozens of spots in the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report, whose survey spotlights excellence in higher education across the country. All four CU campuses are recognized for research and teaching achievement in the fields of health care, engineering, law, education and business.

Join the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Graduate School for the premier of Fresh Minds: New Graduate Student Research on March 13, 3:30-5 p.m. in the Center for Irish and British Studies. This event showcases five-minute (or less) presentations from recipients of the Dean's Research Grants - some of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's top graduate students. A great event to learn more about what our graduate students are doing, as well as an opportunity to see how to present research clearly and concisely to the public.

During a famous roulette game in a Monte Carlo casino in 1913, black came up 26 times in a row. After about 15 repetitions, the players began betting heavily on red, likely believing that such a long streak just couldn’t continue. The gambler’s fallacy—the idea that past events, a streak of black in roulette, for example, can impact the likelihood of a future random event, whether black or red will come up after the next spin—has long been thought to illustrate human irrationality.

On Thursday evening, more than 150 attended the Be Â鶹ӰԺ. in San Francisco event that featured a presentation from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ faculty member Eve-Lyn Hinckley , who has completed extensive research in Napa and Sonoma Counties on water management and sustainability in addition to pesticide use in the wine industry. Alums Jody Harris of Cultivar Wines and Ron Nicholsen of Kelham Vineyards also spoke about water issues facing the industry and what it means for consumers.

When you have papers and midterms piling up, procrastination starts looking like the best option. But there are plenty of tricks to help you get going - and stay productive all semester. Learn to break up your assignments, schedule homework time during the day, and get help when you need it with this month’s issue of Student Health 101 online magazine.