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The Â鶹ӰԺ reduced the cost of curtailing the 4/20 event by nearly $17,000 in 2013 compared with costs incurred in 2012. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ spent $107,794 to close the campus to non-affiliates this year, and $124,561 to close the campus on April 20, 2012.

Last year, I announced an aggressive goal of $100 million in annual giving for our campus. In May the university announced a realignment of the development structure to move fundraising staff from the CU Foundation to the university. Folding our fundraising arm into the fabric of the university will result in a more coordinated development effort and will reflect the operations of high-performing public universities nationwide.

Waleed Abdalati has been named the new director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, a joint institute of the Â鶹ӰԺ and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Abdalati is a CIRES Fellow, a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professor of geography and director of the CIRES Earth Science and Observation Center. He will take office on July 1.

The cost of curtailing the 4/20 event in 2013 was reduced by nearly $17,000 compared with costs incurred in 2012, Â鶹ӰԺ administrators announced today. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ spent $107,794 to close the campus to non-affiliates this year, and $124,561 to close the campus on April 20, 2012.

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Let’s all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new Â鶹ӰԺ study by researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope.

The University of Colorado is looking for CU students of every ethnicity, gender and major to represent the diversity of campus life. No acting experience is required, simply school pride! Come as you are and bring your friends - we're excited to see what makes you unique, from your style to your personality. Auditions will be Tuesday, July 2, at the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ University Memorial Center (UMC) in the Aspen Room. Casting will begin at 11 a.m. and end at 2 p.m. - we hope to see you there!

NEWS TIP SHEET June 26, 2013 CU-Â鶹ӰԺ law prof can comment on gay marriage decisions Jennifer Hendricks, associate professor of law and co-director of the Juvenile and Family Law Program at the Â鶹ӰԺ Law School, is available to discuss today’s gay marriage decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. Contact her at Jennifer.Hendricks@Colorado.edu or by cell phone at 720-262-6454.

The Â鶹ӰԺ has become a full institutional member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV, an ambitious effort by some of the world’s top astronomers to map the celestial sky in three dimensions to learn more about the structure and evolution of the universe.

The Â鶹ӰԺ has been chosen by the Association of American Universities to be one of eight campuses participating in a new initiative to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and math. Over the next three years, each of the eight project sites will receive $500,000 to undertake an innovative STEM education project.