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This year’s renovation of the Student Recreation Center has allowed CU-Â鶹ӰԺ staff to transform creative ideas into new projects. The Wellness Suite and Adventure Planning Center are among those new programs at the center offering a slew of new services.

We sat down with Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano to talk about his sixth State of the Campus Address, which will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Grusin Auditorium in the Imig Music Building. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. and the speech begins at 8 a.m.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ is launching a new Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, today about the many different microbial species that inhabit the human gut and how they may influence health and disease. The free course, titled G ut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome , is being offered through CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and Coursera, and will be taught by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Associate Professor Rob Knight, Senior Research Associate Jessica Metcalf and Research Associate Katherine Amato, all of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s BioFrontiers Institute.

Four Â鶹ӰԺ faculty and staff have received Fulbright Scholar grants to pursue research, teaching and training abroad during the 2014-15 academic year.

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The CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Affirmative Action Program invites all faculty and staff to voluntarily identify their veteran status and disability status at the MyCUInfo Portal.

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A Â鶹ӰԺ research center will recognize public schools for what they do to give all students the chance to succeed, rather than turning to test scores to determine school quality. The Schools of Opportunity project is now seeking applications from public high schools in Colorado and New York. Next year, the project will expand to include schools nationwide, recognizing schools that use research-based practices to close the opportunity gaps that result in unequal opportunities to learn, in school and beyond school.

Emilee Butts, a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ senior majoring in psychology and Spanish, has had an interest in philanthropy dating back to high school. This fall, in addition to serving as director of philanthropy and service for the CU Panhellenic Committee , she is chairing the annual Buffthon, a 12-hour dance marathon that benefits Children's Miracle Network and Children's Hospital Colorado.

"... today we are here to honor the work of researchers and academics who helped keep Kurdish history safe." An important page in history was turned yesterday on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus, as Chancellor DiStefano officially handed over an electronic copy of important documents from the university’s human rights archive to a delegation of Kurdish officials.