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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host its 16th annual International Festival on Saturday, April 12, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center.

Last week, while CU students were enjoying Spring Break, we lost a dear member of our community. CU junior David Parrish of Â鶹ӰԺ was killed last Wednesday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico while trying to stop two men from robbing his mother – CU instructor Janet Graaff. David was a geography major, a talented photographer and artist, and a student with a strong commitment to understanding other cultures and peoples – in short, everything we could hope for from a CU student.

The recording industry's practice of targeting individual university students for music copyright infringement, along with other digital rights issues, will be discussed during an April 9 debate sponsored by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Silicon Flatirons Center.

Five University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate specialty programs were ranked in the top 10 nationally in a new but limited U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings report scheduled for release March 28.

Having tallied nearly 50 years of service to the University of Colorado and the public, former CU President Hank Brown will now play a key role in the future of leadership in the state as the Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

Satellite imagery from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's National Snow and Ice Data Center shows a portion of Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of the continent.

The Daniels Fund has donated $196,500 to two University of Colorado programs, one to support a K-12 engineering education program at the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus and one for an addiction research and treatment program at the Anschutz Medical Center.

A teaching technique called "place-based education" that uses the local community and environment as a starting point to teach an array of disciplines will be the topic of a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ lecture on Thursday, April 3.

Assistant Professor Hang (Hubert) Yin of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's chemistry and biochemistry department has been selected to receive a prestigious Kimmel Scholar Award from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research in Baltimore, the first such award received by a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ scientist.

Three Colorado universities are working together to organize the first Colorado Celebration of Women in Computing, a regional conference designed to encourage the research and career interests of local women in computing.