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Uniting University of Colorado at Boulder students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community is the goal of a remarkably successful student-run campaign that has sold more than 13,500 gold T-shirts since 2004. So far this year, CU-Boulder students have sold 4,500 of the Shoulder to Shoulder Gold Rush T-shirts and they hope to sell 10,000 by the end of this year. The shirts will be available prior to the Sept. 9 football game versus Colorado State University in Denver and also at all CU-Boulder home games.

Jane Margolis, a social scientist who has worked to bridge the gender and minority gap in computer science and co-author of the widely acclaimed book, "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing," will be the inaugural speaker in the ATLAS Speaker Series at the University of Colorado at Boulder at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, in room 100 of the new ATLAS building.

University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson will provide a glimpse of his broad goals and priorities for the campus in a speech on Friday, Sept. 8, in Old Main Chapel. The talk, which is open to the campus and public, begins at 8:15 a.m. following an informal breakfast at 7:30 a.m. on the Norlin Quad outside of Old Main on the CU-Boulder campus.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's "two strikes" policy for enforcement of underage drinking has become an effective way for the campus to guide students, particularly freshmen, toward more responsible behavior, according to Jamal Ward, director of the Office of Judicial Affairs. Under the two strikes policy, adopted in fall 2004, students can be suspended after two underage drinking violations, but violations that harm other people are a primary focus of the policy's enforcement in 2006, Ward said.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is in the process of admitting a small group of clean and sober undergraduates recovering from addictive disorders to participate in its new Center for Â鶹ÒùÔº in Recovery starting this fall.

At noon on Sept. 11, the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law and the CU Law Alumni Board will hold a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony at the new Wolf Law Building on the Boulder campus. The ceremony will recognize the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Organizers of the ceremony also will unveil a bronze plaque dedicated to the memory of CU alumni killed during the attacks.

The research field of media, religion and culture is the focus of three doctoral dissertation fellowships and one post-doctoral fellowship awarded by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder for the 2006-07 academic year. Shazia Iftkhar of the University of Wisconsin, Christine Hoff Kraemer of Boston University and Montré Aza Missouri of the University of London each will receive a $12,000 stipend from the Lilly Endowment in Indianapolis as part of their doctoral dissertation fellowships.

An in-class writing assignment designed to boost students' sense of identity and personal integrity reduced the achievement gap between African-American and nonminority students by 40 percent, according to a new study by a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher.

The University of Colorado's sportsmanship program, "Compete with Class" enters its fourth year with this Saturday's football match-up against Montana State at Folsom Field. Game time is 1:30 MST. CU administrators hope that good sportsmanship prevails both in the trenches and in the stands. Compete with Class was initiated by the Big 12 for all its member schools and is an integral part of the effort.

Villagers in Muramba, Rwanda, now have an effective, easy-to-use water purification system that can deliver clean drinking water to the entire community, thanks to an Engineers Without Borders team from the University of Colorado.