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A $34 million solar instrument package to be built by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, considered a crucial tool to help monitor global climate change, has been restored to a U.S. government satellite mission slated for launch in 2013.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ journalism students will get a rare chance to participate in the U.S. media launch of a new Volkswagen vehicle expected to draw about 120 professional automotive and business writers to campus for a series of press events May 14-16.

Roger Bilham, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, believes the death toll in China from the earthquake that struck the Chengdu Plains region could reach as high as 50,000.

In his new book "Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives," Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ teacher and scholar Jim Sheeler tells the story of five families and the Marine officer who must deliver the most difficult of messages to them: that their loved one has died serving his or her country.

A Â鶹ӰԺ high-tech company spun off from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ in 2007 has been granted an exclusive license by the university for a novel microbial technology to produce new biorefining fuels and related chemical products.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will honor seven people at the May 9 spring commencement ceremony, set to begin at 8:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium.

People attending the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ commencement ceremony May 9 at 8:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium will join a projected crowd of about 20,000 and should plan an early arrival to avoid traffic congestion.

Growing up in Michigan, Jay Price saw it happen countless times to his father, a multiple sclerosis patient who used a rolling walker to maintain his mobility.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ research center has won a $1.5 million contract with its long-time partner Lockheed Martin Corp. to demonstrate new micro- and nanotechnologies that promise to significantly improve thermal management in electronic devices, one of the critical constraints on today's consumer and military electronic systems.

The Chaiten volcano now erupting in southern Chile is one of 200 to 300 volcanoes in the "Andean Arc" region of Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia considered active by volcanologists, some of which lie in much more densely populated areas, said a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ geologist who has studied Chaiten.