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CU students displaced by Boulder's Hill House Apartments fire Saturday night may still obtain assistance on Monday from the University of Colorado or the American Red Cross at a Red Cross Service Center on the CU-Boulder campus.

The Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross and the University of Colorado at Boulder will open an emergency service center on Sunday, July 13 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the CU Recreation Center, conference rooms 3 and 4, to assist CU and Boulder community members affected by Saturday's fire at the Hill House apartment complex at 9th and Marine Streets.

University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson today praised the White House's nomination of Christine Arguello to fill a vacancy on the bench of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

Colorado's economy will slow down in the second half of 2008, but overall job growth will still remain positive for the year, according to Richard Wobbekind, an economist with the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

University of Colorado at Boulder Senior Research Associate Bill McClintock will participate in a NASA media teleconference on Thursday, July 3, to discuss new findings from the most recent flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.

Extinction risks for natural populations of endangered species are likely being underestimated by as much as 100-fold because of a mathematical "misdiagnosis," according to a new study led by a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher.

The bizarre world that exists at the microscopic level will be discussed at a free public lecture Wednesday, July 9, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Post-Katrina changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the impacts of climate change will be discussed by an international gathering of experts July 12-15 at the annual workshop of the University of Colorado at Boulder's Natural Hazards Center.

ConocoPhillips announced today it has signed a $5 million, multiyear sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, a research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, to develop new ways to convert biomass into low-carbon transportation fuels.

A NASA sounding rocket launching from Virginia on June 27 will carry one University of Colorado at Boulder student payload to measure greenhouse gases and 19 other payloads developed by teams from around the nation from kits produced by CU-Boulder students.