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Five journalists have been selected as 2010-11 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano today named Russell L. Moore interim provost at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ. Moore currently serves as interim vice chancellor for research. The appointment begins July 1.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ today named Dr. Donald Misch as assistant vice chancellor for health and wellness and director of the campus's Wardenburg Health Center effective July 1. Misch currently serves as executive director of Northwestern University Health Service in Evanston, Ill., a post he has held since 2003.

The ancestor of all hammerhead sharks probably appeared abruptly in Earth's oceans about 20 million years ago and was as big as some contemporary hammerheads, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

During the 1990s, immigration reached record highs and crime rates fell more precipitously than at any time in U.S. history. And cities with the largest increases in immigration between 1990 and 2000 experienced the largest decreases in rates of homicide and robbery, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ researcher has found.

Faculty and students from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles teamed with researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the first interception of a "supercell" thunderstorm by an unmanned aircraft system on May 6.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Environmental Center, with support from a number of campus departments and private sources, is expanding "Computers To Youth," its innovative approach to both protect the environment and benefit disadvantaged communities in Colorado. It is now an ongoing, year-round program with its formal launch set for Saturday, May 15, on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

NASA's space shuttle Atlantis will make its final flight May 14 carrying three University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ-built biomedical payload devices, including one to help scientists understand how and why slimy and troublesome clumps of microorganisms flourish in the low-gravity conditions of space.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ law professors Scott Moss and Paul Campos can comment on President Obama's nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th U.S. Supreme Court justice.

People attending the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ commencement ceremony on Friday, May 7, at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field will join a projected crowd of about 20,000 and should plan an early arrival to avoid traffic congestion.