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The Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies will be held at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Sept. 12-14 and is expected to bring about 200 scholars from Europe, Asia and the Americas to campus.

The superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Sept. 17 as part of the Center of the American West's Modern Indian Identity Series.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ team working at 16,400 feet in the Peruvian Andes has discovered how barren soils uncovered by retreating glacier ice can swiftly establish a thriving community of microbes, setting the table for lichens, mosses and alpine plants.

The University of Colorado will play West Virginia University in a nationally televised football game on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 6:30 p.m. at Folsom Field, and CU officials strongly encourage faculty, staff, students and visitors to consider alternative transportation and parking on game day.

In a challenging economy, college students and recent graduates need essential skills to compete in the marketplace.

Colorado military veterans interested in writing about their experiences are invited to register for a writing workshop offered by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Continuing Education and Professional Studies program.

Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study concludes that global sea rise of much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility.

Kathleen Tierney, director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and a nationally recognized expert on disasters, is available to talk with the media about the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. Tierney made the following observations today after the massive storm caused mandatory evacuations of New Orleans, including whether or not residents would take evacuation orders as seriously the next time since the storm turned out to be not as bad as originally thought.

The growing number of dams and other impoundments is increasing the number of invasive species and the speed at which they spread, putting natural lakes at risk, says a study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

An image produced by a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ team shows the projected path of Hurricane Gustav as it approaches the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current and heads toward the Gulf Coast.