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Sabrina Sideris, program director of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's INVST Community Studies , takes great pride in working with CU students to help them learn to become engaged citizens and leaders.

A new study finds that small differences in institutional prestige have an enormous impact on the likelihood that a person who graduates with a doctoral degree will land a coveted faculty job. The advantage of alma mater prestige in finding a job is so great that it cannot be explained solely by a difference in educational quality between the universities, according to the study, led by the Â鶹ӰԺ and published today in the journal Science Advances.

In spring 2005, Â鶹ӰԺ students voted to dedicate a portion of student fees to implement on-campus projects incorporating renewable energy, energy efficiency, recycling and waste reduction, and other innovative projects to reduce the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus' impact on climate and environment.

This week, test your vocal skills in a venue more daunting than your shower, celebrate Valentine's Day with more exciting alternatives to dinner on Pearl or support the hockey team as they face off against the CSU Rams.

Petition packets for students interested in running for positions with the University of Colorado Student Government will be available in the CUSG office, UMC 125, beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

Since August 2013, the Office of Performance Improvement (OPI) has been working across the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus to provide academic and nonacademic units with the strategies, tools, methods and resources necessary to improve quality and performance. Jeff Luftig, who has been leading this office since its founding, will be moving into a new role to provide data analytics and key support to the new student success and retention initiatives. Cynthia Husek has agreed to assume the OPI directorship effective Monday, Feb 9. Luftig will also be leading an effort to develop new distance-learning classes for professional masters, regular masters degrees and selected undergraduate courses to be presented online.

John A. Ikard, president and CEO of FirstBank Holding Company, will deliver a talk titled "Leading an Ethical Organization in a Sometimes Unethical World" on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 p.m. in the Wittemyer Courtroom at the Wolf Law Building on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

Literary Buffs, a new student group on campus that aims to connect undergraduates of all disciplines who share an interest in poetry, fiction, music and art, will host its first annual Literature and Arts Festival on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 3-6 p.m.

Students from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Leeds School of Business are offering free tax preparation services to individuals under the Internal Revenue Service-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program.

Housed in the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ School of Education , the new CU Engage: Center for Community-Based Learning and Research offers a campuswide resource for initiatives that work in partnership with local communities to address complex public challenges through research and coursework.