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While most school breaks are exciting because of the brief respite from classes and homework, spring break tends to instill renewed hope that winter will indeed end. This year as you embark on your long awaited spring break, take into consideration ways of having a fun, memorable, and safe time off from classes.

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Â鶹ӰԺ alumnus and NASA astronaut Steve Swanson will blast off with two Russian crewmates for the International Space Station March 25, his third mission to the orbiting facility.

As CU-Â鶹ӰԺ senior Ben Mills prepares for his third and final trip to the NCAA Tournament as a CU Buff, he took a few minutes to answer some questions about his time at CU.

On the third Monday of the month CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Today publishes a roundup of deadlines, calls for proposals and calls for nominations that have come through our information channels. This month, award deadlines are in full swing with calls for nominations for many prestigious campus awards. Planning for the 2014-2015 academic year is also well underway, with calls for course and funding proposals. Be Colorado invites you to Move. and SUCCEED, and Tuition Benefit deadlines for summer terms are now available.

Eating on the cheap can also mean eating well—you don’t have to sacrifice good food for good prices. This month in Student Health 101 online magazine, we’re giving you a crash course in ultimate savings and healthy eating with sample shopping lists and meal ideas that can turn $10 into a full week of groceries, without cutting out the good stuff. So, are you up to take the $10 challenge?

Chancellor Philip DiStefano was appointed last week to the advisory board of the Colorado Innovation Network (COIN), that was launched by Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2011 to encourage public-private collaboration in industries expected to create new jobs.

Green food and drinks, festive parades, Irish music and shamrocks painted on smiling faces are all part of the great celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. But the St. Patrick’s Day celebration of the of the 21st century is a far cry from its holy origins in the ninth century, says Patrick Tally, a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ historian.

A new study led by the Â鶹ӰԺ showed that as a group, volunteer counters who examined a particular patch of lunar real estate using NASA images did just as well in identifying individual craters as professional crater counters with five to 50 years of experience.

The Â鶹ӰԺ Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying a male suspected of indecent exposure on Monday, March 10, 2014, shortly after 4 p.m.