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Juri Toomre, a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences and a fellow of JILA at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been selected to receive the Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university.

Officials at the Wardenburg Health Center at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ are encouraging students who attended a party in the 700 block of 36th Street in Â鶹ӰԺ on the night of April 2 to contact the health center or their primary care provider

Amid an extensive lineup of Earth Day events at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ April 10-25, the campus will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its Environmental Center, founded by students as the "Eco-Center" on the inaugural Earth Day in 1970.

Many studies have found that even as women have succeeded in historically male-dominated fields, they have not enjoyed a corresponding reduction in domestic work.

The fourth-longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens, has been extraordinarily influential as the leader of the progressive wing of the court and as a canny builder of coalitions among the justices, according to Scott Moss, a law professor and expert in constitutional law at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

Gov. Bill Ritter praised the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ for being awarded $2.4 million in Recovery Act funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a smart grid workforce training program. The funds will help CU-Â鶹ӰԺ to build an engineering graduate program focused on smart grid technologies.

Using skills passed down through generations, Inuit forecasters living in the Canadian Arctic look to the sky to tell by the way the wind scatters a cloud whether a storm is on the horizon or if it's safe to go on a hunt.

The University of Colorado system today announced a proposed $22 million package of budget-balancing measures for fiscal year 2010-11 (which begins July 1), the second round of a two-year process.

The search committee established by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano to consider candidates for the position of provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ has recommended a single candidate to be considered for the position: Robert Sternberg. Sternberg currently serves as the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's second annual Spring Fest is expected to draw thousands of students and visitors to campus April 9-11 for the Buffalo Can Challenge, Admitted Student Day, Healthy Kids Day, the spring football game, the Forever Buffs 5K run and other events.