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Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign affairs columnist and best-selling author Thomas Friedman will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Monday, Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium.

The 2009 Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit, which runs Feb. 11-13 at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, will provide a learning and networking forum for participants from campuses in the Rocky Mountain region to advance sustainability.

It was like a dream come true for Richard Preston, a young author who in 1993 was researching deadly diseases most people had never even heard of for what would become the best-selling book "The Hot Zone."

ORLANDO – The University of Colorado's beloved costumed mascot Chip won the 2009 UCA Mascot National Championship Friday here in conjunction with the 2009 College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championships administered by the Universal Cheerleader Association and the United Dance Association.

Chuck Kutscher, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty member, as well as a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ alumnus and principal engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has been selected to receive the Governor's Excellence in Renewable Energy Award for 2008 for his outstanding contributions to protect Colorado's environment and provide clean power through renewable energy.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ physics Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow by the U.S. Department of Defense.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, a national leader in aerospace engineering, and SpaceDev Inc., a leading entrepreneurial space company located in Louisville, Colo., have partnered to create eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship. eSpace is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating new entrepreneurial space companies, commercializing aerospace technologies created within these companies and developing the aerospace workforce to support them.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students won first place this week in a national competition for nanosatellite design, earning a rare opportunity to launch their winning satellite within the next two years.

A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and involving the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ indicates tree deaths in the West's old-growth forests have more than doubled in recent decades, likely from regional warming and related drought conditions.

Former U.S. Marine captain and press officer and current Al-Jazeera English correspondent Josh Rushing will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Monday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. about the future of the relationship between the United States and the Middle East.