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Picture a ball. It's an ordinary ball in every way except that it is roughly 4,300 miles in diameter and is moving through the cold of space some 35 million miles from Earth, and hurtling around the sun in just less than two Earth years. This is Mars.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will hold its winter commencement ceremony on Friday, Dec. 19, at 9:30 a.m. in the Coors Events/Conference Center on campus.

City of Â鶹ӰԺ news release The city of Â鶹ӰԺ, the University of Colorado (CU) and the Â鶹ӰԺ County Public Health Environmental Emergency Response Team are monitoring a spill of an oil-like substance into Â鶹ӰԺ Creek near a low-level parking lot located north of Folsom Stadium and west of Folsom Street.

Colorado will join the rest of the nation in recession in 2009, losing jobs for the third time this decade, and for only the seventh time since records have been kept beginning in 1939, according to national economist Richard Wobbekind of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Leeds School of Business.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ today announced that the Â鶹ӰԺ Police Department and the Â鶹ӰԺ City Manager's office have joined the University of Colorado Student Union's Safety Initiative Task Force in an effort to improve community safety.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has engaged in a comprehensive response to the recent sexual assaults reported in Â鶹ӰԺ. It is important to emphasize that the assaults have been near, but not on, the campus. University and Â鶹ӰԺ Police are coordinating on the investigations.

No one knows better than Steve Forbes that money makes the world go around. Now the president and CEO of Forbes Inc. will offer some advice on the topic and share some insight into global economies and consumer culture at a Dec. 9 speech at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

Due to the inclement weather, the chancellor of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has authorized appropriate supervisory personnel to release early today all employees who have substantial commutes or special transportation needs. NOTE: this is not a closing of the university: all academic departments shall remain open for normal business hours for the remainder of the day, all classes and all university events will proceed as scheduled this afternoon and this evening, and all CU-Â鶹ӰԺ buildings will operate under their normal schedules.

For University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Law School students, experiential education is about applied learning -- acquiring experience and skills by working as lawyers on actual, current cases for clients in need. Thanks to a new $5 million endowed chair donated to the law school by local philanthropists Richard F. and Rick E. Schaden, Colorado Law students will be better equipped to incorporate real-world practice into their schooling.

Whether it's a penguin sliding down a 30-foot ice track, robots playing basketball or students walking on water using foam skis, there should be fun for everyone at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Engineering Design Expo on Saturday, Dec. 6.