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I want all CU fans, supporters, and members of the University community to know that I support Athletic Director Mike Bohn's decision to honor coach Hawkins' contract. I believe this decision is in the best interests of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

University of Colorado athletic director Mike Bohn confirmed Thursday morning that head football coach Dan Hawkins will continue to coach the Buffaloes and return for his fifth season in 2010.

The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown away, says a new study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

A group of University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ physics department faculty and students involved in the Large Hadron Collider project are celebrating the restart of the world's brawniest particle accelerator near Geneva over the weekend.

Over the centuries Thanksgiving in America has meant many things to many people. What we consider the traditional Thanksgiving holiday today has been around only a few decades, according to Chris Lewis, an American Studies instructor at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

The holidays are right around the corner and most people in these uncertain economic times are looking for ways to stretch their dollar as far as possible.

A research team led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.

El Niño, a warming event of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns in the United States and elsewhere, has strengthened in recent months and already appears to have influenced Colorado's fall weather, says Klaus Wolter, an atmospheric scientist with the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students Anita Lowe and Lauren Black are part of a group of students studying writing and hunger while working with Â鶹ӰԺ nonprofits through a service learning course called "Hunger in America and Abroad."

Combine the youth and idealism often found on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus with a business degree, and the ability to make a difference in the world takes on new dimensions.