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Managing invasive plant species on the Great Plains has become more challenging in recent years in the face of human-caused environmental change, including the positive responses of invaders to altered atmospheric chemistry and longer growing seasons, says a University of Colorado at Boulder professor.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The University of Colorado at Boulder has risen on the Peace Corps' top 25 list of large schools producing Peace Corps Volunteers. With 102 alumni currently serving as Peace Corps Volunteers, CU-Boulder is No. 2 in the 2009 rankings. Since Peace Corps' inception, 2,157 alumni of CU-Boulder have served in the Peace Corps, making it the No. 5 all-time producer of volunteers.

Coloradans who are concerned about the economy might want to listen to what Richard Wobbekind has to say at a panel discussion Jan. 13 at the Boulder Public Library. The associate dean in the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business is a leading expert on the state's economy and what it will likely look like in the months and years to come.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere.

The University of Colorado at Boulder was awarded two grants totaling $11 million today from NASA's Lunar Science Institute to probe the cosmos from observatories on the moon and to conduct science and safety investigations on the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and illustrator Art Spiegelman will give a free public lecture on the history and importance of comics on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium highlighting a month-long exhibit titled "Graphia: Comics, Graphic Novels and the Humanities on the Front Range."

With a new president and a new Congress taking up the nation's business in less than two weeks, health care reform will loom large on the national agenda. That makes it a timely and relevant subject for University of Colorado at Boulder political science professor and CU President Emeritus Hank Brown to tackle this semester, which he and a CU-Boulder undergraduate political science class will do in a special course titled "The Politics of Health Care Reform."

The University of Colorado at Boulder is one of 12 colleges selected today by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to participate in the Science Education Alliance, an ambitious higher education program designed to involve freshmen in scientific discovery on a national scale.

The Boulder County Sheriff's Office and local fire departments are combating a large wildfire in Boulder County northwest of the City of Boulder. The fire is not threatening the University of Colorado campus or the immediate campus environs or central City of Boulder.

With thousands of hours logged on the project over nearly two years, University of Colorado at Boulder students are approaching the finals in what has been referred to as the national championship series for satellite design, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.