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A new use of cutting-edge Internet technology will bring a live performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Black Box Theater in the ATLAS building at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 12. The presentation, arranged by the Center for Arts, Media and Performance, will begin with a pre-show at 11:30 a.m. followed by the all-Beethoven concert led by guest conductor Peter Oundjian at noon. The event is free and open to the public.

Lucy Sanders, who directs the National Center for Women and Information Technology on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus, has been inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

The University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Center for Â鶹ÒùÔº in Recovery has begun its second year by encouraging participating students to take a larger role in developing activities to help them on their clean and sober journeys through college.

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Steve Lekson will describe his most recent archaeological research in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon in a free public talk on Monday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. in room 220 of the Eaton Humanities Building on campus.

J.D. and Elsie Abrams, longtime supporters of the University of Colorado at Boulder, have committed $1.5 million to establish a multicultural student center and an additional $800,000 to enhance the J.D. Abrams Engineering Scholarship Fund. The J.D. Abrams Multicultural Student Center will be part of the new Center for Community at CU-Boulder. The community center will include a new dining hall, programs and student services that will enrich the student experience.

Microscopic worms used for scientific research are living longer despite cellular defects, a discovery that is shedding light on how the human body ages and how doctors could one day limit or reverse genetic mutations that cause inherited diseases, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center. The average sea ice extent for the month of September was 1.65 million square miles (4.28 million square kilometers), the lowest September on record, shattering the previous record for the month by 23 percent, which was set in 2005. At the end of the melt season, September 2007 sea ice was 39 percent below the long-term average from 1979 to 2000.

A suspect has been arrested and jailed in an incident the evening of Sept. 27th involving a handful of students in CU-Boulder residence halls. For more information on the incident see the CU Police report on the Web at: www.colorado.edu/police/reports/releases/20070928news01.pdf .

Just two weeks after the extent of Arctic sea ice hit a record low, earth scientists from around the country are putting their heads together to discuss new research platforms for studying remote and risky places like the polar regions. "When the research is dirty, dull or dangerous, it just might be a job for unmanned aircraft," said Research Associate Elizabeth Weatherhead, who, with Professor Brian Argrow of the University of Colorado at Boulder, is coordinating the first U.S. conference exclusively focused on expanding research applications of remotely piloted aircraft.

A physics education Web site launched by Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, distinguished professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has won first place in an international contest held by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science. The Physics Education Technology Project, or PhET, was honored in the fifth annual International Science and Technology Visualization Challenge in the category of interactive media. More than 200 contest entries were received from 23 countries on six continents.