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I sincerely hope that this verdict will bring closure to a long and painful chapter in the lives of Susannah's family and friends. The university community continues to remember Susannah Chase as one of our CU-Â鶹ӰԺ family. Her life reminds us all of what is best in CU students, and her death is a testimony to the need to keep working to rid our community of violence against women, violent crime in general, and all of the factors that lead to both. -CU-

Louise Bennett Reed, who passed away at age 103 last June, gave gifts totaling more than $4.75 million for University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ athletic scholarships, making her the largest individual donor to the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Athletics department.

Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is preparing to begin construction on a new building for the Institute of Behavioral Science, or IBS. The pre-construction work is scheduled to start on Monday, July 6, with excavation beginning in the middle of July.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will launch a certificate program in digital media, in partnership with the parent company of Â鶹ӰԺ advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet.

With unique classes that aren't offered during the spring and fall and a roster of extraordinary faculty, the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's summer session is an exciting and fruitful alternative to a summer break. Best of all, the university brings in teachers from around the globe through a program titled Faculty-In-Residence Summer Term, or FIRST.

Eighty-eight percent of the country's top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a new study published today in Northwestern University School of Law's Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology authored by Professor Michael Radelet, chair of the sociology department at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, and Traci Lacock, an attorney and CU-Â鶹ӰԺ graduate student in sociology.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ team has uncovered an ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system -- a large manioc field intensively cultivated as a staple crop that was buried and exquisitely preserved under a blanket of ash by a volcanic eruption in present-day El Salvador 1,400 years ago.

The identity of a man killed 130 years ago was immediately called into question, generated two exhumations, six separate trials and two rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court, one of them a landmark decision on admissible forms of evidence.