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Researchers will capture a snapshot in time of water quality from 250 locations within and around Rocky Mountain National Park in order to glimpse how differences in climate, pollution and disturbances like mountain pine beetle are affecting Colorado's watersheds.

University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student Jonathan O'Brien will spend the next nine months in the forests of Vietnam carefully observing endangered primates called black-shanked doucs in their wild habitat.

The annual Perseid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky throughout Colorado and will peak during the early morning hours of Aug. 12, according to an astronomy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The University of Colorado at Boulder received about $280 million in sponsored research awards in fiscal year 2008, surpassing last year's record-breaking total by roughly $14 million.

NIST news release BOULDER, Colo. -- Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a powerful new technique that reveals hidden properties of ultracold atomic gases.

Internationally known chemistry Professor Nathan Lewis of the California Institute of Technology will give a talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Aug. 13 titled "The Global Energy Perspective: Chemical Challenges and Sustainable Energy Conversion."

Fact Sheet: Four Decades of Campus Conservation and Sustainability Leadership at CU-Boulder

Fact Sheet: "Ralphie's Green Stampede" Initiative

In an aggressive effort to recycle, eliminate waste and cut even more carbon emissions, the University of Colorado at Boulder today announced the "Ralphie's Green Stampede" zero-waste and carbon-reduction program at Folsom Field.

NEWS TIP SHEET CU-Boulder Sources on China and the 2008 Summer Olympics China's Economy. Keith Maskus, associate dean for social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of economics, can comment on China's trade and technology development processes and the Chinese economy. He can be reached at 303-492-8571, 303-492-7588 or by e-mail at keith.maskus@colorado.edu .