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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is advising students to exercise caution this spring break, whether they are staying around the Â鶹ӰԺ area or traveling to a destination within the United States or out of the country.

Changing Media. Paul Voakes, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, can discuss the rapid decline in the mainstream media workforce and the implications for journalism school enrollments and journalism education more broadly. Voakes can be reached by e-mail at paul.voakes@colorado.edu . His office number is 303-492-4364.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will celebrate Asia Day, a one-day festival hosted by the CU Center for Asian Studies to celebrate the diverse cultures and traditions of Asia and to share CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Asian area expertise with the broader Front Range community.

Commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate pollutants into the air globally as the total amount released by the world's cars, according to a new study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Â鶹ӰԺ, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and horses that roamed North America until their extinction about 13,000 years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study.

The University System Board of Regents today appointed University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson president of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ administrators have launched a comprehensive space science and engineering initiative that will bring together faculty and students across campus now participating in a broad swath of space-related research.

"What I Saw at the Apocalypse," an immersive performance/concert/ installation/spectacle conceived by University of Colorado music professor Michael Theodore, will be presented at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, in the Black Box Studio in the CU ATLAS building.

Vice President and University Counsel Dan Wilkerson of the University of Colorado system and CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson today announced the appointment of John Sleeman as the managing senior associate university counsel for CU-Â鶹ӰԺ.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Fiske Planetarium will celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with the unveiling of two new mural-sized images taken by NASA telescopes and observatories and a talk by astronomer Luisa Rebull on Feb. 27.