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A $32 million University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ instrument package set for launch Feb. 10 by NASA should help scientists better understand the violent effects of the sun on near-Earth space weather that can affect satellites, power grids, ground communications systems and even astronauts and aircraft crews.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Associate Professor Noah Finkelstein will testify before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on the state of science and math education on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 10:30 a.m. EST in Washington, D.C.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is expanding its recycling program and converting to a dual-stream system with the help of dozens of student employees who provide recycling outreach, collections and processing.

Amid all the commentary focused on the historic tragedy in Haiti, a tough but important fact has gone virtually unmentioned, according to a nationally recognized expert on disasters at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ student leaders are heading a campus campaign called "CU Stands With Haiti" aimed at coordinating and unifying the CU community in an effort to raise at least $100,000 in relief for Haiti.

Solar panels installed at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on the roofs of the Coors Events/Conference Center, Housing System Maintenance Center and Wolf Law Building will produce 140,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per year -- enough to power 20 medium-sized houses.

A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative.

In 4 million years, human life has undergone several major periods of transition -- each marked by physical remnants of change -- and today's physical evidence suggests that humans may be entering a new epoch marked by a "single, global political entity," according to a prominent archaeologist who will speak on the University of Colorado campus Saturday.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's College of Engineering and Applied Science has been a campus leader in creating new international offerings for students, including student exchanges, dual degrees, certificate programs and study abroad opportunities.

Ralph Ellison spent four decades writing but never finishing a novel to follow "Invisible Man," which was a meteoric success in 1952 and remains an American classic. Ellison's unfinished second novel goes on sale today, and a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ associate professor is one of two editors who brought the legendary author's work to fruition.