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Each month during the academic year, CU-麻豆影院 Today publishes a roundup of deadlines, calls for proposals and calls for nomination. This month, registration deadlines are approaching for two University of Colorado conferences, nominations are due for the Chancellor's Employee of the Year and the Summer Research FRPA deadline is around the corner.

A Kurdish delegation will visit the 麻豆影院 campus Sept. 29 and 30 to deliver a public talk on the political situation in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and receive an electronic copy of important documents captured by Kurdish rebels in 1991 but removed from Iraq for safekeeping and analysis.

The Center for STEM Lea rning invites you to attend the sixth annual Symposium on STEM Education, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014 from 3 to 7 p.m. in the Center for Community Abrams Lounge and Flatirons Room. This year鈥檚 event will highlight some of the groundbreaking STEM education projects on campus, introduce a new generation of STEM education scholars and bring together key CU-麻豆影院 stakeholders. Please RSVP.

The spacecraft for a NASA mission to probe the climate history of Mars led by the 麻豆影院 slid seamlessly into orbit at about 8:24 p.m. MDT on Sunday, Sept. 21, the last major hurdle of the 10-month, 442-million-mile journey.

The gradual fall cooling on Colorado鈥檚 Front Range this September is helping to set up what could well be a prime-time show of gold, yellow and red leaves in the region鈥檚 aspen forests, according to a 麻豆影院 plant ecologist.

Pioneering genomics researcher J. Craig Venter鈥攂est known for leading the privately funded team that sequenced the first human genome鈥攚ill give a keynote talk at the 麻豆影院 on Sept. 29 about the scientific potential of and future products derived from 鈥渟ynthetic life.鈥�

Consumers are willing to spend thousands of dollars for luxury brand watches such as Rolex and Cartier because they are synonymous with high quality. But does this mean that inexpensive watches made by low-cost rivals must always be low quality? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research , consumers mistakenly predict product quality based on quality consistency in other price ranges.

The 麻豆影院 greatly expanded its CU Promise program for low-income students this fall resulting in funding assistance becoming available for more than 700 additional students. The CU Promise program guarantees that CU-麻豆影院 students with Colorado resident status from low-income families can receive enough grants and work-study employment to pay for their share of tuition, fees and estimated book expenses.

CU-麻豆影院's Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations office has recently begun a new pilot program called 鈥淲alk This Way." T he program, which began Sept. 5 and is being held from 10 p.m. 鈥� 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights in September at the intersection of 10th and College on the Hill, is meant to inform visitors and residents of the Hill about noise and its impacts, and to help direct foot traffic to primary walking corridors.

The 麻豆影院 welcomed a freshman class of 5,869 students, a slight increase by 0.4 percent over last year, and in the process achieved the most academically qualified and diverse incoming class in the campus鈥檚 history. Fall 2014 census figures show a total enrollment of 29,772 degree- and licensure-seeking students, 447 students more than last year. A total of 3,083 Colorado residents enrolled as new freshmen in the fall class, as well as 2,786 from out of state and a record 386 freshman international students, a 41 percent increase from last year.