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University of Colorado at Boulder psychology Professor Marie Banich has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar grant to collaborate with a group of university researchers in Italy on human brain research. She will travel to the University of Verona during the 2007 spring semester. Banich is the director of CU-Boulder's Institute of Cognitive Science and studies the neural architecture of the human brain, focusing on how different regions in the brain work together allowing us to focus our attention.

The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder has issued letters to a number of students whose names and other information were stored on two computers that were found to be missing during the school's move to temporary quarters last May.

Hundreds of University of Colorado at Boulder students will have a chance to purchase business attire without breaking the bank Sept. 28 with the return of the annual Suit Yourself clothing sale and fashion show. With suits priced at just $15, coats marked down to $10, and ties, scarves and belts selling for only $2, the sale offers students an inexpensive way to stock up on the professional clothing they need for job interviews or their career.

A symposium to be hosted by the University of Colorado on Oct. 3 highlighting ongoing and proposed research efforts on renewable and sustainable energy will feature two free public talks by nationally known energy figures.

Data gathered by a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth show Greenland continued to lose ice mass at a significant rate through April 2006, and that the rate of loss is accelerating, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

The CU Foundation Board of Trustees elected Glenn E. Porzak as chair and Jean L. Thompson vice chair of the CUF Board of Directors and Trustees at its annual meeting on Sept. 15th. Both Porzak and Thompson have been trustees since 2002 and will serve two-year terms as officers.

A 19-year-old sophomore male student at the University of Colorado at Boulder was diagnosed Tuesday with meningococcal disease and is recovering at his home. The student was evaluated and treated at Exempla Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette last Saturday for fever and body aches. He was initially diagnosed with an unspecified blood infection. However, later results of a blood test indicated the student had contracted meningococcal disease, which is characterized by fever, aches, chills and, in some cases, a rash.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder has committed to providing 10 four-year merit scholarships averaging $2,000 per year to 2007 graduates of the Pre-Engineering Academy at Lafayette's Centaurus High School. In 2008, the offering will grow to 16 scholarships.

The University of Colorado at Boulder welcomed its largest freshman class ever this fall, with 5,617 new first-time students enrolled on Sept. 15, the date of the official census count for 2006.

New images of planets, star clusters, supernovae, galaxies and black holes taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will be highlighted at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium Sept. 28-29. Professor Mike Shull of CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department will present "New Astronomy Results With the Hubble Space Telescope" both days at 7:30 p.m. in the planetarium.