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Three weeks into the fall semester, as students settle into academic routines, the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Involvement Week during Sept. 8-11 will provide information on an array of possibilities for those looking to add campus involvement to their collegiate experience.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, University of Colorado President Bruce Benson, Nobel Laureate and CU Distinguished Professor Tom Cech, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Philip DiStefano and members from the entire CU-Â鶹ӰԺ community will gather Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 4:15 p.m. on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ East Campus to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building.

A new study led by Northern Arizona University and involving the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ indicates Arctic temperatures have reversed from a long-term cooling trend and are now the warmest they have been in at least 2,000 years, bad news for the world's coastal cities facing rising seas in the coming decades.

A revolutionary biotechnology and biomedical research and teaching facility being built at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will tackle a wide variety of pressing human health challenges ranging from cancer, aging and cardiovascular disease to inherited diseases, vaccine development and tissue engineering.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will mark the 35th annual National Suicide Prevention Week during Sept. 6-12 with a series of events promoting suicide awareness and intervention.

The University of Colorado vs. Colorado State University football game at Folsom Field on Sept. 6 will follow the model for all home games of recent years. Fans are reminded that violations of banned substances and materials, or disruptive and unruly behavior, could result in fans being ejected from the game, according to CU Police officials.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ today named Lawrence M. Levine, Ph.D., as chief information officer, effective Nov. 1. Levine currently serves as associate dean for information technology and chief information officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

The National Science Foundation has awarded more than $2 million to University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ researchers to take leading-edge investigations on the public's use of social media during crisis situations to the next level of research and development.

The new 24-hour Norlin Commons and other renovations at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Norlin Library were designed with the 21st century student in mind, providing a combination of learning environments and resources for group work, the use of multimedia technology and individual study and research.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has identified 49 probable H1N1 cases among CU-Â鶹ӰԺ students based on positive test results for Influenza A.