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A symposium to be hosted by the University of Colorado on Oct. 3 highlighting ongoing and proposed research efforts on renewable and sustainable energy will feature two free public talks by nationally known energy figures.

Data gathered by a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth show Greenland continued to lose ice mass at a significant rate through April 2006, and that the rate of loss is accelerating, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

The CU Foundation Board of Trustees elected Glenn E. Porzak as chair and Jean L. Thompson vice chair of the CUF Board of Directors and Trustees at its annual meeting on Sept. 15th. Both Porzak and Thompson have been trustees since 2002 and will serve two-year terms as officers.

A 19-year-old sophomore male student at the University of Colorado at Boulder was diagnosed Tuesday with meningococcal disease and is recovering at his home. The student was evaluated and treated at Exempla Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette last Saturday for fever and body aches. He was initially diagnosed with an unspecified blood infection. However, later results of a blood test indicated the student had contracted meningococcal disease, which is characterized by fever, aches, chills and, in some cases, a rash.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder has committed to providing 10 four-year merit scholarships averaging $2,000 per year to 2007 graduates of the Pre-Engineering Academy at Lafayette's Centaurus High School. In 2008, the offering will grow to 16 scholarships.

The University of Colorado at Boulder welcomed its largest freshman class ever this fall, with 5,617 new first-time students enrolled on Sept. 15, the date of the official census count for 2006.

New images of planets, star clusters, supernovae, galaxies and black holes taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will be highlighted at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium Sept. 28-29. Professor Mike Shull of CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department will present "New Astronomy Results With the Hubble Space Telescope" both days at 7:30 p.m. in the planetarium.

The discovery of 10,300-year-old human remains in a southeast Alaska island cave in 1996 provided new insights into the lives of ancient people and helped cement a partnership between local tribes and scientists. University of Colorado at Boulder Professor James Dixon was a lead researcher who studied the bones, the earliest human skeletal remains ever found in Alaska or Canada. In the project's early days, Dixon recognized the significance of the cooperation between the Tlingit and Haida tribes, scientists and government officials.

University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor Brian DeLay is featured in a two-hour television special titled "The Mexican-American War" premiering Friday, Sept. 29, at 6 p.m. MDT on The History Channel. Hosted by boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya, the program tells the story of the controversial war and includes re-creations of its key battles based on notes and memoirs from soldiers who fought on both sides of the conflict 160 years ago.

Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North will give the keynote address during the annual conference of the International Society of New Institutional Economics to be hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder Sept. 21-24.