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The University of Colorado at Boulder today announced its budget, tuition and financial aid figures for the 2007-08 academic year and unveiled the largest financial aid package in the 130-year history of the university. Under CU-Boulder's plan, expected to be approved by the University of Colorado Board of Regents today at the board's regularly scheduled meeting, the average tuition increase for a full-time resident undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, CU-Boulder's largest college, will be approximately $332 a semester or $664 per year.

A high-flying NASA mission over Costa Rica and Panama in July and August should help scientists better understand how tropical storms influence global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion, says a University of Colorado at Boulder professor who is one of two mission scientists for the massive field campaign.

A new study spearheaded by the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center indicates wind-blown dust from drought-stricken and disturbed lands in the Southwest can shorten the duration of mountain snow cover hundreds of miles away in the Colorado mountains by roughly a month.

Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Environmental Technology used one of their airborne remote sensing instruments to help map the extent of recent flooding in north Texas and support forecasting and relief efforts.

University of Colorado at Boulder officials today announced the campus would comply with NCAA sanctions resulting from a self-reported violation of NCAA bylaws that occurred on the campus between 2001-05, and announced a set of key reforms and practices to prevent similar violations in the future.

John Bennett, the University of Colorado at Boulder's associate dean of engineering for education, has been named the new director for the campus Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society, or ATLAS.

I want to assure all our student-athletes, their parents, our faculty and staff, our alumni and our fellow NCAA Division I institutions that the University of Colorado at Boulder will fully comply with all of the NCAAÂ’s rules and regulations. I believe that this is demonstrated by the fact that when we discovered what we suspected was a rules violation, we immediately self-reported it to the NCAA and worked with it to understand what ultimately was a very complicated and involved set of circumstances.

Corn and potato crops may soon provide information to farmers about when they need water and how much should be delivered, thanks to a University of Colorado at Boulder invention optioned to AgriHouse Inc., a Berthoud, Colo., high-tech company.

University of Colorado at Boulder writing instructor Steven Wingate has been awarded the 2007 Katherine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College in Vermont. Wingate won for his short-story collection "Wifeshopping," which will be published by Houghton-Mifflin publishers next spring. Since 2001, he has taught in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Eight of the country's top Latino high school graduates will receive college grants from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation during a prestigious national ceremony on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. The foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization, will hold its annual National Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards Ceremony at Folsom Field on Thursday, June 21. In addition to the students, the foundation will honor an outstanding high school educator and two up-and-coming Hollywood stars.