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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is the nation's No. 5 "Best Value" public college or university for 2010 according to rankings released today by USA Today and The Princeton Review.

Preston Padden, executive vice president for government relations for the Walt Disney Co., has accepted appointments to join the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ next fall as an adjunct professor in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program and a senior fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center.

Stephen Grace, former general manager of the largest educational cable access channel in the United States and a producer for NBC's "Today" show, has been appointed executive director of the Presidents Leadership Institute at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

Seven research efforts involving the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ were among the top 100 science stories of the year selected by Discover Magazine -- ideas and breakthroughs that are reshaping our understanding of the world, according to the publication.

Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide, according to a new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study.

Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ visited the White House today as one of four public research university leaders representing about 120 universities pledging to address the national shortage of science and mathematics teachers in a letter presented to President Barack Obama.

When the call came, Liz Harris didn't hesitate to answer in the affirmative: Spend part of the holiday season in Iraq and Kuwait helping to entertain U.S. troops?

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Center for Media, Religion and Culture will host an international conference Jan. 7-10 on "Islam and the Media: Who Speaks for Islam?"

An instrument package developed in part by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ for the $2.2 billion orbiting Herschel Space Observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency has provided one of the most detailed views yet of space up to 12 billion years back in time.

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ $3.3 million for a detailed, one-year concept study for a lander mission to Venus to study the history of its surface, climate and atmosphere and to predict its ultimate fate in the solar system.