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Val Peterson, wife of University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson, has been named president of the ARCS Foundation's Colorado chapter.

Ryan Kobrick, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ doctoral candidate, has had the dream of being an astronaut since he was a kid. He is now working toward that dream while studying the abrasive nature of lunar dust, with the goal of helping scientists design better, safer and more durable spacesuits and spacecraft.

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ $2 million for graduate students to design, build and launch four payloads on sounding rockets from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to study X-ray emissions from the edges of the solar system and beyond.

President-elect Barack Obama won't take office until January, but national energy experts are ready to give him their ideas on desirable new energy policies.

University of Colorado Police today arrested Thomas Corwin-Smith, 6-22-75, on charges of harassment and Unlawful Conduct on Public Property for an incident involving a female CU student.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ today named Deb Coffin as the new associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students, a position she has held since July in an interim appointment.

Each day as I arrive at my office, I am privileged to be greeted by veterans. On the wall immediately outside my office is a photo of 44 young Navy men who studied Japanese at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ during World War II. The photo serves to remind me of the university's long connection to national service and to our many veterans who have given so much.

A NASA space shuttle mission carrying a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ payload of web-spinning spiders and wannabe butterflies will be closely monitored by hundreds of K-12 students from Colorado's Front Range after Endeavour launches from Florida for the International Space Station Nov. 14.

Whether European nations acted more quickly than the United States on climate change because of better press coverage will be up for discussion at an International Environmental Journalism Summit sponsored by the Center for Environmental Journalism Nov. 12-15 at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

In the wake of a Nov. 4 off-campus assault against a female CU student, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ officials are reminding students of important personal and community safety measures.