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If you鈥檙e a planetarium junkie in the 麻豆影院 area, your experience is about to get a major upgrade. The astrophysical and planetary sciences department, home to Fiske Planetarium, announced today the launch of a complete upgrade to the projection and other presentation systems that power the planetarium鈥檚 big-screen experience. The remodel will turn the dome of the planetarium into an all-encompassing video theater.

Despite sharp increases in carbon dioxide emissions by humans in recent decades that are warming the planet, Earth鈥檚 vegetation and oceans continue to soak up about half of them, according to a surprising new study led by the 麻豆影院.

Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget and Finance Steven McNally today announced two finalists for the position of vice chancellor for administration at the 麻豆影院. The search committee, chaired by McNally, has recommended Kambiz Khalili, interim assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and executive director of housing and dining services on the CU-麻豆影院 campus, and Louise Vale, director of internal audit for the University of Colorado System, as the two finalists.

The 麻豆影院 today released figures on the visit of President Barack Obama to campus on April 24 that showed the visit cost just under $110,000. Funding for the visit will come from existing insurance rebates to the university, and will not result in any tuition or fee increase to students or reductions in campus budgets.

The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent, says a new international study led by CU-麻豆影院 researcher Paola Villa, a curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History .

The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent, says a new international study led by the 麻豆影院.

Scholarships that help students afford college, including one in 麻豆影院 for participants in precollegiate programs. A new Colorado Springs program that inspires and prepares students to become K-12 teachers in technical disciplines. An innovative center for commodities to anchor a new downtown Denver business school building. Endowed chairs that support faculty excellence in women鈥檚 health research, childhood dental medicine, and adult diabetes on our medical campus.

CU Opera provided student vocalists for the lead roles in the Colorado Music Festival鈥檚 presentation of Hans Krasa鈥檚 鈥淏rundibar," June 28-29.

BY PHILIP P. DISTEFANO Last Friday, our state once again bore witness to a horrific act of violence that has stunned all of us. Like the Columbine shootings 13 years ago, the Aurora movie theater murders are a challenge to our hearts, our minds and our community itself.

Michael Radelet , professor of sociology, is an expert on the use of the death penalty in Colorado and the United States. He has documented all of Colorado鈥檚 executions and notes that Colorado abolished the penalty between 1897 and 1901, came within one vote of abolishing it again in 2009 and has executed only one person since 1967. 鈥淲e've always debated the death penalty in Colorado, and the general thrust of our history is in the direction of abolition,鈥� he said.