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A narrow belt harboring moonlets as large as football stadiums discovered in Saturn's outermost ring probably resulted when a larger moon was shattered by a wayward asteroid or comet eons ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has taken several steps to assist faculty, staff and students from Southern California who may be impacted by the catastrophic fires and today announced a series of actions designed to assist them, including the following: o The university will make residence hall debriefing sessions available for students, faculty and staff who have been adversely affected by the fires and their aftermath. The debriefing sessions are private and not open to the media.

Foundation and Endowment Money Management magazine named the University of Colorado Foundation as the “Large Foundation of the Year” at its 2007 Nonprofit Awards for Excellence ceremony on Monday, Oct. 22. The magazine, an Institutional Investor publication, selected the CU Foundation based on its superior investment performance, innovation and outstanding asset allocation moves, foundation officials said.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been named one of the nation's 25 most sustainable campuses by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, which today issued its 2008 College Sustainability Report Card evaluating campus sustainability policies at 200 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

Sister Helen Prejean, the Catholic nun and death penalty opponent who authored "Dead Man Walking," will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Friday, Oct. 26, to participate in a panel discussion about her work. The panel will feature Prejean, "Dead Man Walking" opera composer Jake Heggie and CU-Boulder sociology chair and Professor Michael Radelet. The panel will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, in Grusin Music Hall at the College of Music's Imig Building on the CU-Boulder campus.

o Eight cases of community-associated MRSA, or Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, have been diagnosed in students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Two of the students live in residence halls and the remainder live off campus.

Health officials at the University of Colorado at Boulder are urging students, faculty and staff to be vigilant in their daily hygiene, frequently washing their hands and wiping down shared athletic equipment following detection and treatment of eight cases of community-associated MRSA, or Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, at the Wardenburg Health Center.

As part of continued efforts to turn the University of Colorado at Boulder into a "No Flu Zone," the Wardenburg Health Center will offer flu shots to students, faculty and staff during daylong clinics on Thursday, Oct. 25, and Friday, Oct. 26. Â鶹ÒùÔº also will be able to get meningitis shots. Flu shots will be available for $25 and meningitis shots for $125. The clinics will operate from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the CU-Boulder Student Recreation Center.

As part of continued efforts to turn the University of Colorado at Boulder into a “No Flu Zone,” the Wardenburg Health Center will offer flu shots to students, faculty and staff during daylong clinics on Thursday, Oct. 25, and Friday, Oct. 26. Â鶹ÒùÔº also will be able to get meningitis shots. Flu shots will be available for $25 and meningitis shots for $125. The clinics will operate from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the CU-Boulder Student Recreation Center.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's 2007 Solar Decathlon Team took third place in the engineering contest, and seventh place overall in the third international solar home competition sponsored by the Department of Energy. Technische Universitat Darmstadt of Germany took first place overall, followed by the University of Maryland in second place and Santa Clara University in third.