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The world boasts some 6,000 languages, but many - including Arapaho, Wichita and other American Indian languages - are rapidly disappearing as new generations of speakers move into urban areas and adopt the globe's dominant tongues, say University of Colorado at Boulder linguistics experts.

Western Issues and the Presidential Election. Patty Limerick, professor of history and environmental studies, and faculty chair of the Center of the American West, can discuss Western issues in this year's presidential election and whether or not they are being addressed by the candidates.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a panel of experts who will participate in a public discussion on global warming and related issues on Thursday, Feb. 7.

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a result of warming, and are expected to disappear by the middle of the century.

University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson “Today, our hearts are with the family of our former student, Susannah Chase. I contacted the Chase family not long ago, near the 10th anniversary of Susannah’s murder, and I know they share in this important moment today.

Note to Editors: On Monday, Jan. 28, and the day of the forum, Jan. 29, University of Colorado Student Union representatives will hand out packets of ramen noodles to symbolize the financial challenges of being a college student. Organizers says students will hand out ramen to their peers in the University Memorial Center atrium from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both days.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will join more than 1,300 universities, colleges, high schools and other groups across the nation, including more than 30 institutions in Colorado, in a daylong campus event on Jan. 31 meant to focus student attention on climate change.

Three University of Colorado at Boulder faculty members have been named distinguished professors, the highest honor bestowed by CU on its teaching faculty.

The work of George Catlin, best known for his paintings of American Indians in the mid-1800s, will be examined in a Feb. 7 lecture presented by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Elizabeth Skewes, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will analyze this yearÂ’s large field of presidential primaries and caucuses during a Feb. 5 television-viewing event on campus.