http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/top Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:47:40 -0600 http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/662988bb4dc6b81df322f62a1e243433.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/662988bb4dc6b81df322f62a1e243433.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:55:00 -0600 U.S. Rep. John Salazar praised the efforts of federal, state and private groups, including University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and student archaeologists, who are working together to investigate and restore the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area near Pagosa Springs, Colo. The site is considered one of the most spectacular Ancestral Pueblo ruins in all of the Southwest. http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/5e46e849805e7e479680e2a3d38821e0.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/5e46e849805e7e479680e2a3d38821e0.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:40:00 -0600 http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/1ead08b57c081531a504dad2ac4400d2.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/1ead08b57c081531a504dad2ac4400d2.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:55:00 -0600 Louise Bennett Reed, who passed away at age 103 last June, gave gifts totaling more than $4.75 million for University of Colorado at Boulder athletic scholarships, making her the largest individual donor to the CU-Boulder Athletics department. http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/b31ca2928f7cb0fba7aa3341ff400e16.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/b31ca2928f7cb0fba7aa3341ff400e16.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:30:00 -0600 Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/93db6bc9a15535472df6e00eb7f0332f.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/93db6bc9a15535472df6e00eb7f0332f.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:15:00 -0600 The University of Colorado at Boulder is preparing to begin construction on a new building for the Institute of Behavioral Science, or IBS. The pre-construction work is scheduled to start on Monday, July 6, with excavation beginning in the middle of July. http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/dd47251044b174d8745a0c69c2cd1421.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/dd47251044b174d8745a0c69c2cd1421.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:40:00 -0600 The University of Colorado at Boulder will launch a certificate program in digital media, in partnership with the parent company of Boulder advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/7e9c22ec0cd6dabc007bb14ed2e29f16.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/7e9c22ec0cd6dabc007bb14ed2e29f16.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:45:00 -0600 A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet. http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/02acd257642efb673d62ac206303a97f.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/02acd257642efb673d62ac206303a97f.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:55:00 -0600 With unique classes that aren't offered during the spring and fall and a roster of extraordinary faculty, the University of Colorado at Boulder's summer session is an exciting and fruitful alternative to a summer break. Best of all, the university brings in teachers from around the globe through a program titled Faculty-In-Residence Summer Term, or FIRST. http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/13dce9032bc4982c0208069c5367bd63.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/13dce9032bc4982c0208069c5367bd63.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:50:00 -0600 Eighty-eight percent of the country's top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a new study published today in Northwestern University School of Law's Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology authored by Professor Michael Radelet, chair of the sociology department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Traci Lacock, an attorney and CU-Boulder graduate student in sociology. http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/7b3e517b5b98a84c7cc842b9797cf3f4.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/7b3e517b5b98a84c7cc842b9797cf3f4.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:15:00 -0600 A University of Colorado at Boulder team has uncovered an ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system -- a large manioc field intensively cultivated as a staple crop that was buried and exquisitely preserved under a blanket of ash by a volcanic eruption in present-day El Salvador 1,400 years ago.