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As a physics professor at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, Noah Finkelstein is concerned about the level of education his future students will have when they arrive at CU. And it's not intelligence or the students' study habits he's worried about, it's their teachers.

Before applying to medical schools, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate Nick Breitnauer is taking a two-year hiatus to teach in sub-Saharan Africa with the Peace Corps.

In 2002, Colorado's Front Range was suffering through a historic drought, the worst it had seen in a century. A large snowpack the following year, however, filled the reservoirs and returned life-giving water to streams like Â鶹ӰԺ Creek, along with something else local fisherman and environmentalists weren't expecting -- "rock snot."

It's not too often that a college student gets to expose criminals as part of their undergraduate education, but Thuy Huynh, a senior at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has done just that.

Three University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students have been named 2009 Goldwater Scholars, the premier national undergraduate award recognizing outstanding students in math, science and engineering.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ announced today that Nestor Davidson, associate professor of law, has accepted an appointment as principal deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which works with communities across the country to promote homeownership, affordable rental housing, community development and fair housing.

People attending the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ commencement ceremony May 8 at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field will join a projected crowd of about 20,000 and should plan an early arrival to avoid traffic congestion.

The University of Colorado today confirmed through the Â鶹ӰԺ County Health department a second case of A(H1N1) virus in a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ student.

A $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ to probe the evolution of galaxies, stars and intergalactic matter from its perch on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is on schedule for its slated May 11 launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard NASA's space shuttle Atlantis.

Ryan Kramer, an 18-year-old who is graduating May 8 from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, is no stranger to national publicity.