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Construction noise in Norlin Library earlier this evening prompted a 911 call to the University of Colorado Police Department with a report of shots being fired. Officers from CUPD responded within five minutes and quickly determined the noise was from a high-pressure nail gun being used in active construction in another portion of the library. Police cleared the scene within minutes and without incident.

Two University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ physicists are part of a collaborative team working with the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York that have created the hottest temperature matter ever measured in the universe -- 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.

Student journalists at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ are addressing issues of inclusivity and diversity through a bold, groundbreaking new awareness campaign announced today with U.S. Rep. Jared Polis as the keynote speaker.

"Still Chained? The Overrepresentation of African-Americans in the Criminal Justice System" is the title of a one-day conference to be hosted by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Law School on Feb. 19 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano today announced the commencement of a national search for the next executive director of the University of Colorado Alumni Association.

Physicists at JILA on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus have for the first time observed chemical reactions near absolute zero, demonstrating that chemistry is possible at ultralow temperatures and that reaction rates can be controlled using quantum mechanics, the peculiar rules of submicroscopic physics.

Student journalists at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ are addressing issues of inclusivity and diversity through a bold, groundbreaking new awareness campaign to be unveiled at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 16, with U.S. Rep Jared Polis as the keynote speaker.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ history Professor Patty Limerick will bring history alive when she interviews nationally recognized actor Clay Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt in Â鶹ӰԺ and Denver on Feb. 24 and 25.

Each morning, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ alumna Julie Fast wakes to the footsteps of "campesinos" hiking past her front door in Peru on their way to their farm fields.

• CU-Â鶹ӰԺ is the only university in the world to have designed, built and launched instruments to every planet in the solar system. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics currently has a $12 million instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft now at Saturn, an $8.7 million instrument en route to Mercury on the MESSENGER mission and a student-built dust counter on the New Horizons mission to Pluto launched in 2006.