CU-麻豆影院 expands popular Computers To Youth program

Nov. 5, 2013

The 麻豆影院 Environmental Center is expanding its Computers To Youth program to include more students and more interactive activities.

Alternative Breaks now accepting applications

Nov. 5, 2013

By the Volunteer Resource Center Have you heard about Alternative Breaks ? It's an organization at CU-麻豆影院 committed to creating an environment of active citizens, who put their community first.

What you need to know about the CU-麻豆影院 Diversity and Inclusion Summit Nov. 13-14

Nov. 4, 2013

The 19th annual Diversity and Inclusion Summit will be held at CU-麻豆影院 Nov. 13-14. Alphonse Keasley, who has been involved with the summit since it began 19 years ago, says the Summit Planning Committee is using this year's summit to help the campus and community move toward a place that "exemplifies diversity, intercultural understanding and community engagement." Keasley discusses the summit in the following Q & A. >>

CU-麻豆影院 sources on 50th anniversary of JFK assassination

Nov. 4, 2013

Rick Stevens , assistant professor of journalism, can comment on media coverage of the JFK assassination as the first time in history Americans reacted to the same visual event. He says the coverage of the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath represented a key shift from radio to television as the dominant news medium of the day and signaled the birth of a different kind of relationship between the American public and public officials.

Nominations, deadlines and proposals: November Roundup

Nov. 1, 2013

On the third Monday of the month CU-麻豆影院 Today publishes a roundup of deadlines, calls for proposals and calls for nominations that have come through our information channels. This month, the list includes commencement-related deadlines for regalia and application processing, development opportunities for faculty and staff including the faculty and staff tuition benefit, and application deadlines for academic development opportunities including digital learning initiatives through ASSETT and Fulbright and Boettcher scholar deadlines.

Your student government: Preliminary CUSG election results announced

Nov. 1, 2013

By the University of Colorado Student Government As of 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, CU Student Government elections came to a close with the second highest fall voter turn out in recent CU history. This election was exceptionally close, with most candidates tallying in within a percentage point of their competitors, so every last vote counted in determining these results.

University Memorial Center celebrates 60 years

Nov. 1, 2013

The University Memorial Center (UMC) is celebrating its 60th birthday . A living memorial to Colorado veterans, the building is visited by more than 12,000 people every day and houses retail, student group offices, banking, printing, mailing, bowling and lots of places to just hang out. A full slate of events kicks off on Monday, Nov. 4, culminating in the annual Veteran鈥檚 Day Ceremony on Monday, Nov. 11. Be sure to attend the 鈥淐elebrating 60 Years鈥 party on Wednesday evening, roller skating in the Glenn Miller Ballroom on Thursday, FAC on Friday, the Veterans Day Ceremony and enjoy daily specials throughout the week.

New study: Rising temperatures challenge Salt Lake City鈥檚 water supply

Nov. 1, 2013

In an example of the challenges water-strapped Western cities will face in a warming world, new research shows that every degree Fahrenheit of warming in the Salt Lake City region could mean a 1.8 to 6.5 percent drop in the annual flow of streams that provide water to the city.

U.S. policy should encourage highly skilled, foreign Ph.D. students to stay, CU-led study finds

Oct. 31, 2013

Attracting more talented foreign students to study at U.S. universities and encouraging them to launch entrepreneurial ventures here could help 鈥渞evitalize innovation and economic growth鈥 in this country, a trio of economists led by 麻豆影院 Professor Keith Maskus concludes. Maskus and co-authors Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, associate professor at the Yale School of Management, and Eric T. Stuen, assistant professor at the University of Idaho College of Business and Economics, make this case in the Policy Forum of the Nov. 1 edition of the journal Science .

CU-麻豆影院-led team takes first look at diverse life below rare tallgrass prairies

Oct. 31, 2013

America鈥檚 once-abundant tallgrass prairies鈥攚hich have all but disappeared鈥攚ere home to dozens of species of grasses that could grow to the height of a man, hundreds of species of flowers, and herds of roaming bison. For the first time, a research team led by the 麻豆影院 has gotten a peek at another vitally important but rarely considered community that also once called the tallgrass prairie home: the diverse assortment of microbes that thrived in the dark, rich soils beneath the grass.

Pages