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University of Colorado at Boulder administrators have launched a comprehensive space science and engineering initiative that will bring together faculty and students across campus now participating in a broad swath of space-related research.

"What I Saw at the Apocalypse," an immersive performance/concert/ installation/spectacle conceived by University of Colorado music professor Michael Theodore, will be presented at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, in the Black Box Studio in the CU ATLAS building.

Vice President and University Counsel Dan Wilkerson of the University of Colorado system and CU-Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson today announced the appointment of John Sleeman as the managing senior associate university counsel for CU-Boulder.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium will celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with the unveiling of two new mural-sized images taken by NASA telescopes and observatories and a talk by astronomer Luisa Rebull on Feb. 27.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is participating in a weeklong national event starting Feb. 23 designed to bring attention to the epidemic of eating disorders and body dissatisfaction issues that plague huge numbers of college-aged women and men.

University of Colorado at Boulder students will be at the controls of one of NASA's most intriguing missions in recent years following the scheduled March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft to hunt down Earth-like planets in other solar systems.

Substituting inhalable, powder vaccines for shots may sound like an ideal alternative for those with phobias of needles, but for millions of children in developing countries, it could be the difference between life and death.

A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods instead turn them up higher.

More than 30 of the nation's leading thinkers and practitioners in real estate, law, business and public policy will gather in Denver and Boulder Feb. 26-27 for a new University of Colorado at Boulder symposium about sustainable land use and real estate development.

The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder announced today it will present its 2009 Wallace Stegner Award to author Tom McGuane, best known for his novels "The Sporting Club," "The Bushwhacked Piano" and "Ninety-Two in the Shade."