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Researcher Dave Rusch remembers sitting up all night during the Sputnik era, watching for signs of Soviet satellites orbiting the earth over his boyhood home in Iowa. The dawn of the Space Age so stirred his imagination he built his own telescope a few years later. "I remember saying to myself, 'Boy, wouldn't it be exciting to study data that came back from a satellite?' " said Rusch, a senior research associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics, or LASP.

Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration at the University of Colorado at Boulder who played a role in every major building project since arriving on campus in 1991, announced today that he will retire Oct. 31. Tabolt joined the campus as director of Facilities Management and was named vice chancellor for administration in 1997. His division employs about 650 people and manages 9.2 million square feet of building space on more than 1,000 acres.

MEDIA ADVISORY July 23, 2007 Media covering the special meeting of the University of Colorado Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday, July 24, at the University of Colorado at Boulder's University Memorial Center should be aware of the following information. CU-Boulder Professor Ward Churchill has requested a hearing in front of the Board of Regents based on CU President Hank Brown's recommendation to dismiss him. Regent policy provides Professor Churchill an opportunity to request a hearing before the Board during executive session. Media should note the following:

Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

Jane Curtis, a health educator for the California Institute of Technology with more than 10 years of experience in alcohol and drug prevention, has been named the new director of alcohol programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, replacing outgoing director Robert Maust who will retire at the end of August. Maust has been director since 1997 of A Matter of Degree, CU-Boulder's alcohol education program. With the hiring of Curtis, CU-Boulder's alcohol and substance abuse program will be renamed the Alcohol and Other Drugs Program.

Construction work that damaged a power line at the University of Colorado at Boulder resulted in an overloaded transformer today at the Engineering Center complex and power outages in 11 other buildings, primarily residence halls. The aerospace engineering and electrical engineering departments in the Engineering Center were closed for the day. CU-Boulder emergency officials had restored power to all buildings except the two engineering departments and the north side of Willard Hall as of 2:30 p.m. No injuries were reported.

University of Colorado at Boulder chemistry and biochemistry Professor Marvin Caruthers will receive the nation's highest accolade for scientific achievement, the National Medal of Science, during a White House ceremony next week. One of CU-Boulder's Distinguished Professors, Caruthers is a biotechnology pioneer and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Five University of Colorado at Boulder students have been offered Fulbright scholarships to study overseas during the 2007-2008 academic year. Mongolia, Iceland and Korea are among the countries where CU-Boulder students will be conducting research and teaching, according to Larry Bell, director of CU-BoulderÂ’s Office of International Education.

As of 9 p.m. Tuesday evening, power had been completely restored to the electrical engineering section of the CU engineering building following an overload of the buildingÂ’s transformer Tuesday morning. The power outage there and a related outage that hit 11 residence halls on the CU-Boulder campus Tuesday were the result of construction work that hit a major powerline on the east campus at mid-day on Monday. Power was restored to the residence halls earlier in the day on Tuesday.

Before Robert E. Foss graduated from the University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s business school in 1971, he took many of his classes in the schoolÂ’s then-new building. Now 36 years later he and his wife will help provide a similar experience for 3,800 students at CU-BoulderÂ’s Leeds School of Business. Foss and his wife, Georganne, have pledged $1 million to name the deanÂ’s suite in the Koelbel Building, the business schoolÂ’s newly renovated and expanded home, which is set to reopen in August.