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Due to road conditions and decreasing temperatures, the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will close at 3 p.m. today except for essential personnel. The University of Colorado women's basketball game against Colgate University set for tonight at 7 p.m. will be played as scheduled.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ today announced another major step toward greening its campus by naming Moe Tabrizi director of campus sustainability. The appointment was effective Dec. 2, 2010.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Fiske Planetarium, in partnership with the Sommers-Bausch Observatory, will host a viewing party of the total lunar eclipse on Monday, Dec. 20, starting at 10 p.m.

Wind turbines in Midwestern farm fields may be doing more than churning out electricity. The giant turbine blades that generate renewable energy might also help corn and soybean crops stay cooler and drier, help them fend off fungal infestations and improve their ability to extract growth-enhancing carbon dioxide from the air and soil.

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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will hold its winter commencement ceremony on Friday, Dec. 17, at 9:30 a.m. in the Coors Events Center and people planning to drive to campus should arrive early.

Rising concentrations of zinc in a waterway on Colorado's Western Slope may be the result of climate change that is affecting the timing of annual snowmelt, says a new study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

A novel project using cameras mounted on unmanned aircraft flying over the Arctic is serving double duty by assessing the characteristics of declining sea ice and using the same aerial photos to pinpoint seals that have hauled up on ice floes.

In the next few days, over 500 students who were close to completing a bachelor's degree at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ but left for one reason or another will receive letters from the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies encouraging them to return to classes.

During the holidays, no matter how you celebrate or what your beliefs, music is almost always an important part of the celebration, according to Thomas Riis, a musicologist and director of the American Music Research Center in the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's College of Music.