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CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 Program Council is hard at work scheduling a lineup of national and local bands, film screenings, comedy shows and other special events for 2013-14. In the process, the students and volunteers are learning career-making skills in how to run a professional production company.

Professor of Civil Engineering and founder of Engineers without Borders-USA, Bernard Amadei will discuss the intertwined roles of science, technology, and engineering necessary in sustainable human development. The issues of poverty, social justice, shelter, food security, and infrastructure development are only a few of the challenges that require multiple perspectives to develop innovative and sustainable solutions. The talk will be held on Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in Math 100, and will be followed by a Q&A.

During the spring 2013 semester, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) distributed a campus-wide survey designed to identify client satisfaction levels and areas of improvement for OIT-provided services. The results of this survey are available for your review in the Summary of the Results & Highlights of Findings from the 2013 Annual Proactive Survey report located on the OIT website.

The confidence of Colorado business leaders has slightly declined going into the fourth quarter as uncertainty facing a potential government shutdown and the federal deficit increased, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 麻豆影院鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

Taking breaks from the stress of a startup improves experienced entrepreneurs鈥� mental well-being, but not inexperienced entrepreneurs鈥� well-being, says a study led by the 麻豆影院.

Now that you've had time to settle in to the school year, take a minute to check out some financial tips and tricks from CU Money Sense.

Last year the 麻豆影院 had a record number of incoming international students, and the trend is expected to continue this year. Home countries for these students range from China to Algeria to Malaysia and Norway. And thanks to the welcoming members of the 麻豆影院 Friends of International Students (BFIS) program, these students have the opportunity to get to know host families who invite them to various events like hiking, concerts, ball games, or simply get together for dinner once a month.

The University of Colorado has secured Charleston Southern University as the opponent to replace the Sept. 14 Fresno State football game which was postponed due to the record rainfall and subsequent flooding in 麻豆影院, CU athletic director Rick George announced Monday. The game has been scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 19; the kickoff time will be determined once the Pac-12 Conference sets the television schedule for that day next Monday.

A small satellite designed and built by a team of 麻豆影院 students to better understand how atmospheric drag can affect satellite orbits was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Sunday morning. The satellite, known as the Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer satellite, or DANDE, will investigate how a layer of Earth鈥檚 atmosphere known as the thermosphere varies in density at altitudes from about 200 to 300 miles above Earth. The commercial Falcon-9 SpaceX rocket lifted off the launch pad at about 10 a.m. MDT carrying DANDE, a small beach ball-sized satellite developed over a period of about six years by roughly 150 students, primarily undergraduates, as part of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, or COSGS.

It鈥檚 popular to frame issues of variation in human health, intelligence and other traits as a question of 鈥渘ature vs. nurture.鈥� But, armed with new research methods and a burgeoning body of knowledge, leading scholars in the social sciences increasingly find that such dichotomous discussions fail to convey the nuance they observe in their research. In a post-conference discussion on Oct. 12, researchers at the 麻豆影院 and the University of Wisconsin will give the public a closer and deeper look at their state of understanding.