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Visitors planning to attend the Michelle Obama event at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Wednesday, Oct. 1, are encouraged to use alternative transportation and to arrive early for the event scheduled to begin at 11:15 a.m. at CU-Boulder's Farrand Field.

Sanjai Bhagat, professor of finance, can address the credit crisis brought on by the subprime mortgage industry. Bhagat's research interests include corporate lawsuits and business valuation and his teaching interests include corporate finance and governance and also entrepreneurial finance. He can be reached at 303-492-7821 or Sanjai.Bhagat@Colorado.EDU .

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which is toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument to measure Mercury's wispy atmosphere and blistering surface, will make its second flyby of the mysterious, rocky planet Oct. 6.

Michelle Obama, prominent attorney, human rights advocate and the wife of Democratic Party presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will visit the CU-Boulder campus Wednesday for a voter registration event titled "Change We Need Rally with Michelle Obama."

For 100 years the CU Golden Buffalo Marching Band has been on hand to celebrate University of Colorado football wins, pump up the crowd when the chips are down and to represent the university with pride and zeal wherever it goes.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's 2008 Homecoming festivities begin on Wednesday, Oct. 1, with a new "Ultimate Fan" competition at CU's Old Main Chapel and end Sunday with a community cleanup at several city locations.

University of Colorado leaders today lauded the U.S. Senate's appointment of CU attorney Christine Arguello to the U.S. District Court in Denver.

CU-Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson has been nominated by President George W. Bush to serve on the National Science Board.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's extensive archive of 1930s and 1940s big band-era great Glenn Miller has received its second major gift in the past two years with the addition of artifacts from former band member Paul Tanner.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has received a $1 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to establish a new worldwide consortium to help link decision-makers in developing and industrialized countries with institutes, government agencies and individuals to collectively share their climate, water and weather-related knowledge.