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Newly elected Sierra Club President Robert Cox will teach a summer seminar at the University of Colorado at Boulder that will explore how citizens and other stakeholders contribute to the debate over global warming, climate change and other environmental issues and ultimately shape public policy. As a summer visiting professor, Cox also will participate as a mentor in a national consortium for doctoral students and give a free public talk at the Denver Press Club at 7 p.m. on June 13.

A national symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder featuring appearances by high-profile musicians, performers and composers will explore the medical, therapeutic and spiritual benefits of music on human health and society. "Music and Health in America" will take place June 28 through June 30 in the Imig Music Building at 18th Street and Euclid Avenue on the CU-Boulder campus and at other Boulder venues.

Shopping for that new high-definition television this summer? Skip it, and take a vacation instead, says a University of Colorado at Boulder psychologist who studies happiness. Assistant Professor Leaf Van Boven has conducted numerous surveys and experiments spanning several years and has found that life experiences, such as vacations, generally make people from various walks of life happier than material possessions.

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $1.2 million to design and build a rocket payload to probe a nearby interstellar cloud with new technology that may help scientists better understand the mass and evolution of distant galaxies.

Coping with natural resources law and policy challenges in the 21st century, from mineral extraction to water and forest management, will be the focus of the University of Colorado at Boulder Natural Resources Law Center's 25th Anniversary Summer Conference. Titled "The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy," the conference will be held June 6-8 at the Wolf Law Building on the CU-Boulder campus.

Ethan Van Duzer, a 2006 business graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, is a semi-finalist in the international film competition "Film Your Issue 2007." The competition is limited to young adults, aged 16 to 25, who were required to create a one-minute film about controversial cultural and political issues.

A University of Colorado at Boulder program that encourages students to spend spring break helping other people has collected more than 1,600 college textbooks to help communities in several African nations.

The University of Colorado at Boulder today announced that a computer server in the College of Arts and Sciences' Academic Advising Center, which had been recently attacked with a worm, had exposed 44,998 student names and Social Security numbers, prompting the campus to institute a new series of Information Technology security measures. The students, enrolled at CU-Boulder from 2002 to the present, are being notified by the University of Colorado at Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences.

Saturn's largest and most dense ring is composed of tightly packed clumps of particles separated by nearly empty gaps, according to new findings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The clumps in Saturn's B ring are neatly organized and constantly colliding, which surprised scientists.

Registration is open for a national symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder that will explore how music can affect individuals and societies in positive and often therapeutic ways. The fifth annual Susan Porter Music and Health in America Symposium will take place June 28 through June 30 in the Imig Music Building on the CU-Boulder campus and at several other Boulder venues.