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University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ social scientist Liesel Ritchie is one of three disaster researchers who will discuss their work in Haiti in a nationwide April 27 webcast hosted by the National Science Foundation.

Beginning today, the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ could be picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. As many of you know, this organization targets traditions and institutions ranging from military funerals to public schools to drive home a strongly anti-gay, hateful, despicable set of messages.

A new study exploring the growing worldwide problem of nitrogen pollution from soils to the sea shows that global ratios of nitrogen and carbon in the environment are inexorably linked, a finding that may lead to new strategies to help mitigate regional problems ranging from contaminated waterways to human health.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty and students will join a storm-chasing science team for the second year in a row across the nation's infamous "Tornado Alley" this spring in an effort to understand how and why tornadoes form and evolve in order to improve warning forecasts of the violent events.

Todd Gleeson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and chair of the search committee for provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, announced today that Robert J. Sternberg has withdrawn as a candidate for the position at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ in order to pursue a pending offer at another university.

Engineering students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ are ramping up for a week of intense activity April 20 to 24, when they will celebrate Engineering Days and complete hands-on design projects for demonstration to the community at the Engineering Design Expo.

The eruption of an Icelandic volcano that sent a huge plume of ash into the atmosphere and caused sweeping disruptions of air traffic over Great Britain and Scandinavia today will likely dissipate in the next several days, according to a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ atmospheric scientist.

Five University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate specialty programs were ranked in the top 10 nationally in U.S. News & World Report's 2011 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools scheduled for release April 15.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and the City of Â鶹ӰԺ are announcing a pilot party registration program that is designed to help students become better informed about how to host responsible gatherings while giving police and neighbors other options for resolving noise complaints.

A Colorado-based aerospace company, Sierra Nevada Space Systems of Louisville, is collaborating with students and faculty in the department of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ in the development of a new spacecraft called Dream Chaser, which will be used to carry astronauts to space.