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University of Colorado at Boulder

The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder; CU) is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado. Considered a Public Ivy, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876. The university’s colors are officially silver and gold; however, traditional CU items utilize the black and gold color scheme.

In 2007, the university consisted of nine colleges and schools and offered over 150 academic programs, enrolled 28,988 students, and granted 6,781 degrees. Six Nobel Laureates, seven MacArthur Fellows, and 17 astronauts have been affiliated with CU Boulder as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history. The university received nearly $340 million in sponsored research in 2009 to fund programs like the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, JILA, and National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NIST-F1 atomic clock.

Colorado Buffaloes competed in nine intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Big 12 Conference. On June 10, 2010, it was announced that they would be joining the Pacific-10 Conference . The Buffaloes have won 23 NCAA championships: 17 in skiing, five total in men’s and women’s cross country, and one in football. Approximately 1,500 students participate in 34 intercollegiate club sports annually as well.

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University of Colorado at Boulder Tuition and Fees

Tuition and fees	2006-07⁽¹⁾		2007-08⁽¹⁾		2008-09⁽¹⁾		2009-10⁽¹⁾		2010-11⁽¹⁾
	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY
BASE (most students): Arts & Sciences, Architecture & Planning, Education
Undergraduate
Resident	2,822	5,643	3,318	6,635	3,639	7,278	3,966	7,932	4,255	8,511
Incoming Non-resident	11,770	23,539	12,399	24,797	13,378	26,756	14,093	28,186	14,746	29,493
Graduate
Resident	3,834	7,668	4,128	8,256	4,471	8,943	4,843	9,685	5,215	10,430
Non-resident	11,412	22,824	11,585	23,170	12,068	24,135	12,421	24,841	12,775	25,550
BUSINESS
Undergraduate
Resident	4,195	8,389	4,948	9,895	5,426	10,852	5,914	11,828	6,379	12,759
Incoming Non-resident	13,218	26,435	13,912	27,823	15,001	30,002	15,776	31,552	16,519	33,039
MBA⁽²⁾
Resident	5,445	10,890	5,852	11,704	6,945	13,889	7,516	15,031	8,131	16,262
Non-resident	12,744	25,488	12,930	25,860	13,683	27,365	14,068	28,135	14,467	28,934
Graduate
Resident	5,265	10,530	5,659	11,318	6,119	12,237	6,616	13,231	7,150	14,300
Non-resident	12,744	25,488	12,930	25,860	13,472	26,943	13,861	27,721	14,260	28,520
ENGINEERING
Undergraduate
Resident	3,542	7,083	4,358	8,715	4,784	9,568	5,209	10,418	5,619	11,239
Incoming Non-resident	12,445	24,889	13,254	26,507	14,298	28,596	15,243	30,486	15,946	31,893

Resident	4,554	9,108	5,051	10,102	5,462	10,923	6,103	12,205	6,592	13,184
Non-resident	12,069	24,138	12,401	24,802	12,923	25,845	13,492	26,983	13,873	27,746
JOURNALISM, MUSIC
Undergraduate
Resident	2,912	5,823	3,423	6,845	3,755	7,510	4,087	8,174	4,387	8,775
Incoming Non-resident	11,895	23,789	12,524	25,047	13,508	27,016	14,218	28,436	14,896	29,793
Graduate
Resident	3,834	7,668	4,128	8,256	4,472	8,943	4,843	9,685	5,215	10,430
Non-resident	11,538	23,076	11,712	23,424	12,203	24,405	12,556	25,111	12,910	25,820
LAW⁽³⁾
Juris Doctor
Resident	8,217	16,434	9,301	18,593	11,024	22,047	12,679	25,358	14,437	28,874
Non-resident	15,255	30,510	15,643	31,277	16,280	32,559	16,711	33,422	17,866	35,732
Master of Laws
Resident									16,651	33,302
Non-resident									18,401	36,802

Tuition only	2006-07⁽¹⁾		2007-08⁽¹⁾		2008-09⁽¹⁾		2009-10⁽¹⁾		2010-11⁽¹⁾
	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY
BASE (most students): Arts & Sciences, Architecture & Planning, Education
Undergraduate
Resident	2,277	4,554	2,709	5,418	2,961	5,922	3,223	6,446	3,509	7,018
Incoming Non-resident	11,225	22,450	11,790	23,580	12,700	25,400	13,350	26,700	14,000	28,000
Graduate
Resident	3,285	6,570	3,515	7,030	3,789	7,578	4,095	8,190	4,464	8,928
Non-resident	10,863	21,726	10,972	21,944	11,385	22,770	11,673	23,346	12,024	24,048
BUSINESS
Undergraduate
Resident	3,627	7,254	4,316	8,632	4,725	9,450	5,148	10,296	5,610	11,220
Incoming Non-resident	12,650	25,300	13,280	26,560	14,300	28,600	15,010	30,020	15,750	31,500
MBA⁽²⁾
Resident	4,896	9,792	5,239	10,478	6,262	12,524	6,768	13,536	7,380	14,760
Non-resident	12,195	24,390	12,317	24,634	13,000	26,000	13,320	26,640	13,716	27,432
Graduate
Resident	4,716	9,432	5,046	10,092	5,436	10,872	5,868	11,736	6,399	12,798
Non-resident	12,195	24,390	12,317	24,634	12,789	25,578	13,113	26,226	13,509	27,018
ENGINEERING
Undergraduate
Resident	2,997	5,994	3,749	7,498	4,106	8,212	4,466	8,932	4,873	9,746
Incoming Non-resident	11,900	23,800	12,645	25,290	13,620	27,240	14,500	29,000	15,200	30,400
Graduate
Resident	4,005	8,010	4,438	8,876	4,779	9,558	5,355	10,710	5,841	11,682
Non-resident	11,520	23,040	11,788	23,576	12,240	24,480	12,744	25,488	13,122	26,244
JOURNALISM, MUSIC
Undergraduate
Resident	2,367	4,734	2,814	5,628	3,077	6,154	3,344	6,688	3,641	7,282
Incoming Non-resident	11,350	22,700	11,915	23,830	12,830	25,660	13,475	26,950	14,150	28,300
Graduate
Resident	3,285	6,570	3,515	7,030	3,789	7,578	4,095	8,190	4,464	8,928
Non-resident	10,989	21,978	11,099	22,198	11,520	23,040	11,808	23,616	12,159	24,318
LAW⁽³⁾
Juris Doctor
Resident	7,668	15,336	8,511	17,022	10,170	20,340	11,781	23,562	13,536	27,072
Non-resident	14,706	29,412	14,853	29,706	15,426	30,852	15,813	31,626	16,965	33,930
Master of Laws
Resident									15,750	31,500
Non-resident									17,500	35,000

⁽¹⁾ Resident undergraduate tuition represents the student share after College Opportunity Fund (COF). For more information

about COF visit the Bursar’s web site COF Information

⁽²⁾Starting in 2008-09, resident students entering the MBA
program in the business school pay a different and higher tuition

rate than
those continuing in the MBA program. The rate shown is for entering students.

⁽³⁾Starting in 2007-08, resident students entering the law school pay a different and higher tuition rate than those continuing

in the law school. The rate shown is for entering students.

Mandatory fees*	2006-07		2007-08		2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
Mandatory fees*	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY	Semester	AY
Undergraduate	545	1,089	609	1,217	678	1,356	743	1,486	746	1,493
Undergraduate, Business	568	1,135	632	1,263	701	1,402	766	1,532	769	1,539
Graduate	549	1,098	613	1,226	682	1,365	748	1,495	751	1,502

*Fee information has been rounded to the nearest whole dollar thus, totals may vary by a dollar.

Detailed fee information can be found at the
Bursar’s web-site

Residence hall room and board

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

Semester

Double room and 19 meals/week

4,150

8,300

4,544

9,088

4,930

9,860

5,189

10,378

5,396

10,792

Colleges of University of Colorado at Boulder

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Overfed black holes shut down galactic star-making, says new study involving CU-Boulder - Fri, 18 May 2012
Galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black holes, according to a new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder using the Herschel Space Observatory.
The results from Hershel, a European Space Agency-led mission involving NASA, demonstrate that black holes suppressed galactic star formation when the universe was less than half its current age. The team made observations with the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, or SPIRE instrument, onboard Herschel, said CU-Boulder Professor Jason Glenn, a co-author on the study.
“We want to know how star formation and black hole activity are linked,” said Mathew Page of University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, lead study author. “The two processes increase together up to a point, but the most energetic black holes appear to turn off star formation.”
A paper on the subject involving more than two dozen institutions is being published in the May 10 issue of Nature. CU-Boulder is receiving more than $2 million from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena for the combined support of SPIRE instrument development and science data analysis during the lifetime of the orbiting telescope.
Previous studies of nearby galaxies have suggested that active, massive black holes in the centers of galaxies can quench star formation as they heat up and eject energy, dispersing the reservoirs of cold gas that are required to create new stars. But the relationship of giant, luminous black holes -- known as active galactic nuclei -- to star formation has been unclear, Glenn said.
“By using data from Herschel, we now have the first direct evidence that the larger, more energetic black holes were quenching star formation billions of years ago,” said Glenn of CU-Boulder’s astrophysical and planetary sciences department. “The study shows a correlation between the amount of black hole accretion -- essentially the amount of material falling into it -- and the limiting of star formation.”
Supermassive black holes, with masses as large as many millions of suns, are believed to reside in the hearts of all large galaxies. When gas and dust fall into them, the matter is accelerated and heated, releasing great torrents of energy. Earlier in the history of the universe, these objects were often much brighter and more energetic, and star formation also was livelier back then, according to the research team.
The team used Herschel to observe 65 distant galaxies thought to be between 8 billion and 12 billion years old -- a time when galaxies were forming stars at about 30 to 100 times the current rate and when some galaxies were more than 1,000 times brighter than our Milky Way. Made in the far infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with SPIRE, the observations were part of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey, or HerMES, which involves more than 100 astronomers from six countries, including Glenn.
The bulk of the energy released by developing stars in the observed galaxies was in the form of visible and ultraviolet light that was absorbed by surrounding dust clouds, making it invisible to most telescopes, said Glenn, also a fellow at CU-Boulder’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy. But the heated dust clouds around the developing stars were observed by SPIRE to glow in the far infrared, or submillimeter wavelengths, allowing astronomers to estimate rates of star formation.
Herschel is the first space observatory to make high-resolution images at submillimeter wavelengths, which are longer than visible and infrared light waves and shorter than radio waves, said Glenn. SPIRE was designed to look for emissions from clouds and dust in galaxies linked to star formation back to roughly 13 billion years ago -- just a billion or so years after the big bang, he said.
Herschel science instruments were provided by a consortia of European institutes and with participation by NASA. NASA’s Herschel Project Office is based at JPL, which contributed technology for two of Herschel’s three science instruments. The NASA Herschel Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech, supports the U.S. astronomical community. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
For more information on the Herschel Space Observatory visit http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/index.html orhttp://www.nasa.gov/herschel. For more information on CU-Boulder’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy visithttp://casa.colorado.edu/. For more information on CU-Boulder’s astrophysical and planetary sciences department visithttp://aps.colorado.edu/.
Contact:
Jason Glenn, 303-735-5904
Jason.Glenn@colorado.edu
Jim Scott, CU media relations, 303-492-3114
Jim.Scott@colorado.edu

New ‘Map of Life’ project aims to show distribution of all plants, animals on planet - Fri, 18 May 2012
A research team involving Yale University and the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a first public demonstration version of its “Map of Life,” an ambitious Web-based endeavor designed to show the distribution of all living plants and animals on the planet.
The demonstration version allows anyone with an Internet connection to map the known global distribution of almost 25,000 species of terrestrial vertebrate animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and North American freshwater fish. The database, which continues to expand, already contains hundreds of millions of records on the abundance and distribution of the planet’s diverse flora and fauna.
“We are taking 200 years of different types of knowledge coming from different sources, all documenting the locations of species around the world and compiling them in a way that will greatly enhance our knowledge of biodiversity,” said CU-Boulder Associate Professor Robert Guralnick of the ecology and evolutionary biology department, part of the Map of Life research team. “Such information could be used by any organization that needs to make informed decisions regarding land management, health, conservation and climate change.”
The initial version of the map tool being released today is intended to introduce it to the broader public, according to the researchers. It allows users to see several levels of detail for a given species -- at its broadest, the type of environment it lives in, and at its finest, specific locations where the species’ presence has been documented. One function allows users to click a point on the map and generate a list of vertebrate species in the surrounding area. More functions will be added over time, according to the team.
“It is the where and the when of a species,” said Walter Jetz, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale and the project lead. “It puts at your fingertips the geographic diversity of life. Ultimately, the hope is for this literally to include hundreds of thousands of animal and plant species and show how much or indeed how little we know of their whereabouts.”
A paper by Jetz, Guralnick and Jana McPherson of the Calgary Zoological Society describing the evolving Map of Life technology tool appeared in a recent issue of the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
By highlighting the known abundance and distribution of species, the researchers hope to identify and fill knowledge gaps and also offer a tool for detecting change over time. They expect the map tool will prove useful for professional scientists, wildlife and land managers, conservation organizations and the general public.
The team is using information gleaned from a wide variety of sources, including field guides, museum collections and wildlife checklists that involved scientists, conservation organizations and “citizen scientists.” The project’s success will depend on participation by other scientists and informed amateurs, and subsequent versions of the mapping tool will offer mechanisms for users to supply new or missing information about the distribution and abundance of particular species.
Jetz called the Map of Life “an infrastructure, something to help us all collaborate, improve, share and understand the still extremely limited geographic knowledge about biodiversity.” The team continues to work on several other tasks and challenges, including who will be contributing data and how information supplied by the contributors will be verified and curated.
“A small but powerful next step is to provide a means for anyone, anywhere on the globe to use their mobile devices to instantly pull up animal and plant distributions and even get a realistic assessment on the odds of encountering a particular species of wildlife,” said Guralnick, who also is the curator of invertebrate zoology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.
Guralnick said the Map of Life project is following in the footsteps of other knowledge repositories like the GenBank project, a National Institutes of Health-funded effort with a public database of more than 135 million gene sequences from more than 300,000 organisms that allows users to explore genes and genomes using bioinformatics tools. In the biodiversity arena, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility in Copenhagen has developed an important resource that provides access to more than 300 million records of plant and animal occurrences, which is one of the distributional databases being used by the Map of Life team.
The National Science Foundation has provided initial support for the Map of Life project. Other supporters are the Encyclopedia of Life; the International Union for the Conservation of Nature; and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, and the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, both in Germany.
The public demonstration version of Map of Life can be found at http://www.mappinglife.org/ and more information about the project is available at http://www.mappinglife.org/about.
Contact:
Robert Guralnick, 303-735-0441
Robert.Guralnick@colorado.edu
Jim Scott, CU media relations, 303-492-3114
Jim.Scott@colorado.edu

New University of Colorado economic impact study: CU pumped $5.3 billion into Colorado’s economy in 2011 - Thu, 17 May 2012

CU System news release
In the most comprehensive research yet conducted on what the University of Colorado means to the state’s economy, analysts show an economic impact of $5.3 billion for Colorado in 2011.
The research, conducted by the Business Research Division of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, provides the most comprehensive data yet compiled on the statewide economic impact from the university and the individual effects on Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) with CU campuses.
“CU is a substantial, stable economic driver for Colorado that not only produces a highly educated workforce, but also creates jobs and companies in our state,” said CU President Bruce D. Benson. “Our faculty researchers also bring hundreds of millions to Colorado, which has significant ripple effects in key sectors of Colorado’s economy.”
The study was conducted by a team of researchers in the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business, led by chief analyst Richard Wobbekind, executive director of the Business Research Division and senior associate dean for Academic Programs. The team worked with campus business analysts, the Office of Technology Transfer in the University of Colorado system, and the offices of sponsored programs, as well as those from private-sector companies. They examined data compiled from fiscal years (FY) 2009-11, with a strong focus on numbers from FY2011.
“We looked at economic impacts on Colorado based upon examinations of operating expenditures, capital expenditures, employee salaries and benefits, and construction,” Wobbekind said. “What we found was a wide and deep economic reach: CU’s 57,400 students and 27,483 faculty, staff and student workers were engines of activity both as spenders and as generators of economic activity.
“The snapshot we generated illustrates just how economically productive CU is for the state of Colorado,” Wobbekind said, though he added that the study did not quantify the economic impacts of the nearly 200,000 CU alumni living and working in the state, nor did it quantify impacts derived from most visitors (visiting professors and researchers, alumni, sporting event spectators and others).
“Adding in those visitors would result in additional benefits to Colorado’s economy, primarily the hospitality sector,” Wobbekind said. “These impacts are subjects of future research.”
Other studies in recent years had calculated CU’s annual economic impact on the state to be as high as $6 billion; this latest CU analysis is intentionally conservative and is based on more accurate methodology.
Among the research group’s findings, which are available in a complete report at http://leeds.colorado.edu/brd#universityofcoloradoeconomicimpactstudy, are the following:
• The $2.6 billion in direct spending related to the University of Colorado led to $5.3 billion in economic activity in the state of Colorado in FY2011, resulting from the work of 17,860 faculty and staff.
• Faculty and staff participate in activities ranging from teaching and research to administrative and support, operating one of the largest institutions in the state of Colorado. The majority of economic activity stems from salaries and benefits, directly accounting for $1.2 billion in economic activity.
• Statewide, student spending was estimated at $500.9 million in FY2011 based on a system-administered survey, with CU-Boulder accounting for 63 percent of the total ($318 million), followed by the University of Colorado Denver and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (27 percent or $82.9 million) and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (9 percent or $46.8 million). Nearly 38 percent of the spending was identified as housing expenditures, followed by groceries (11 percent) and books (11 percent).
• In FY2011, the University of Colorado secured more than $793 million in sponsored program awards from federal, state and private sources. Often thought of as “research grants,” sponsored program funding more broadly includes consulting agreements, scholarship awards and other funding. Sponsored program spending totaled $877.1 million for the year.
• Technology emerging from CU research laboratories enabled the founding of 11 new companies in FY2011. CU’s job creation typically concentrates on such high-tech industries as biotechnology and clean energy.
• CU’s spending of $246 million on construction projects in FY2011 resulted in an economic benefit of $478 million, bolstering an industry in need as the economy continues to recover. Funding for the projects, some of which are multi-year endeavors, largely came from private donations and bond financing, as state funding for construction has dwindled.
•The CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CU-Boulder accounted for 94 percent of federal funding expenditures and 93 percent of overall sponsored program expenditures. State awards expended for research totaled $32.3 million in FY2011, concentrated in activity at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CU Denver.
• In FY2011, the University of Colorado was the third-largest employer in the state of Colorado, and is among the largest employers in each county of operations. CU employed 27,483 faculty, staff and students in FY2011, with a total payroll of nearly $1.2 billion. Average earnings were $44,828, including student pay.
• Of the $1.1 billion in resident salaries, nearly $654 million was paid to employees living in the Denver MSA, $348 million to workers residing in the Boulder MSA, and $56 million to employees in the Colorado Springs MSA.
The University of Colorado is a premier public research university with four campuses: the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, the University of Colorado Denver and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Some 57,000 students are pursuing academic degrees at CU. The National Science Foundation ranks CU seventh among public institutions in federal research expenditures in engineering and science. Academic prestige is marked by the university’s four Nobel laureates, seven MacArthur “genius” Fellows, 18 alumni astronauts and 19 Rhodes Scholars. For more information about the entire CU system, and to access campus resources, go to www.cu.edu.

Contact: Ken McConnellogue
University of Colorado System
303-815-8481
ken.mcconnellogue@cu.edu
Brian Lewandowski
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado Boulder
303-492-3307
brian.lewandowski@colorado.edu
“We looked at economic impacts on Colorado based upon examinations of operating expenditures, capital expenditures, employee salaries and benefits, and construction,” said Richard Wobbekind, executive director of the Business Research Division. “What we found was a wide and deep economic reach: CU’s 57,400 students and 27,483 faculty, staff and student workers were engines of activity both as spenders and as generators of economic activity."
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Serving Colorado. Engaged in the World., Community, Sustainability

CU-Boulder to conduct aerial photography of the campus - Tue, 15 May 2012

The University of Colorado Boulder will conduct aerial photography over the Boulder campus and surrounding areas on May 16, weather permitting, between 7 and 8 a.m.
The helicopter will hover over and circle the main CU campus, Williams Village complex and possibly the Chautauqua area. The morning flight is required to capture the early morning light on the Flatirons.
After several years of construction and remodeling on campus, camera crews plan to take advantage of a crane-free main campus and springtime greenery. The last aerial photography of the campus was done in 2010.
The film and video footage will be used in marketing materials being developed by CU-Boulder's University Communications department.
Contact:
Malinda Miller-Huey, 303-492-3115
Serving Colorado. Engaged in the World., Campus, Community, Outreach

Colorado Shakespeare Festival brings the Bard to Boulder - Tue, 15 May 2012
The works of William Shakespeare have been watched, studied — and loved — for literally centuries.
And let’s be honest: Whether they were introduced to the Bard’s work by a dry-as-dust teacher in high school, or just don’t see the plays’ relevance in the fast-moving 21st-century, there are those who aren’t quite sure about Shakespeare.
But the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, a professional theater company in residence at the University of Colorado Boulder, has something to offer both types and everyone in between. Whether it’s mayhem, mirth — even murder — onstage at the incomparable Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre on the CU-Boulder campus, the experience of watching professional actors onstage on a summer evening is, quite simply, magical.
“There’s nothing quite like attending a play at the festival,” says Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. “Sitting with your fellow travelers beneath the stars at the historic Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, with the famous Flatirons hovering to the west, is an unforgettable experience.”
If you love Shakespeare, CSF is a real treat. Not only does the company produce the enduring classics — from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to “Macbeth” to “A Comedy of Errors” — but also less well-known Shakespeare works, modern explorations of his influence, and beloved contemporary plays such as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Little Prince.”
“We’ve added work by playwrights from other cultures and other centuries who have made significant contributions to our understanding of the human condition,” says Producing Artistic Director Philip Sneed.
Founded in 1958, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is the second-oldest company of its kind in the United States. Drawing some of the nation’s top acting, directing and stagecraft talent from around the country, CSF has featured such well-known talents as Val Kilmer, Annette Bening, Michael Moriarty and Jimmy Smits. In addition, the festival helps develop tomorrow’s stars through its work with advanced students from CU’s Department of Theatre & Dance.
Besides its annual lineup of shows on the historic outdoor stage, CSF also presents plays on the newly renovated University Theatre Mainstage. The smaller, indoor setting creates an intimate, moving, theater-going experience. Before the shows, patrons may enjoy a beer or soft drink, catered meal or picnic while being entertained by wandering minstrels and other “green show” performers on a broad, shady lawn at the heart of Boulder’s beautiful CU campus.
The summer 2012 season features one of the Bard’s funniest and most accessible comedies, “Twelfth Night,” as well as “Richard III,” — a play full of intrigue featuring Shakespeare’s most Machiavellian monarch — and Ken Ludwig’s thrilling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original pirate epic, “Treasure Island,” all on the Rippon stage. “Noises Off” — deemed by many critics the funniest play written in the last half century — will star on the University Theatre Mainstage. And in a special treat, famed Shakespearean Tina Packer brings her five-play cycle, “Women of Will,” an exploration of the Bard’s evolution through his female characters, to a stage outside Massachusetts for the first time.
CSF also is proud to bring its outreach and education programs into the community throughout the year. In 2011-12, its innovative anti-bullying program based on “Twelfth Night” was seen by more than 11,000 Colorado school children. Camp Shakespeare for young actors offers the opportunity to learn theater craft from professionals — and even perform on the Rippon stage. In 2011, CSF performed Shakespeare a la Carte, a meal featuring snippets from the plays — and plenty of surprises — for the first time in the United States, and will bring an encore performance to Chautauqua this summer.
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Learning and living sustainability - Tue, 15 May 2012
SEEDS and Sustainable by Design, CU’s two newest Residential Academic Programs, feature an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability and innovative problem-solving.
In addition to the learning opportunities offered by the LEED Platinum design of the residence hall itself, students take part in RAP courses and activities aimed at designing self-sustaining solutions to critical social and environmental issues, ranging from fracking to food shortages to campus and community concerns.
Social Entrepreneurship for Equitable Development & Sustainability (SEEDS) and Sustainable by Design (SbD) began in fall 2011. Students in the first year—who came from arts and sciences, engineering, environmental studies and business—found themselves working with socially conscious entrepreneurial ideas and putting them into practice.
"This experience is devoted to those who would like to make a difference. It’s like a leadership experience. It is innovatively thinking rather than textbook thinking, " said Mario Gjurekovec, an engineering student in SbD.
Taking on real issues, they discovered, requires building a community of peers—through group work, in classes and on field trips—and then reaching out to communities, learning hands-on through active problem solving. As English major Joseph Lee notes, the RAP living experience is unique, with “the culture in the dorm being an incubator for complex ideas and discussion as opposed to a typical dorm.”
Business student Lauren Potter agrees. “I also really appreciated the environment as a whole, working with peers going through the same thing, working on it together, finding the steps we need to take, while following the framework laid out by our professor,” she says.
Both Lauren and Joseph see the RAP courses as changing the way they view the world. Lauren claims the fall course titled Social Innovation and Design for Sustainable Communities “completely re-engineered how I learn. And now, in the second-semester course, Social Entrepreneurship & Sustainability, I am taking it on and being a social entrepreneur, taking risks in the context of potentially failing at the project. But now I find that is all right, because bumps mean coming up with something new.”
And according to Joseph, “I’ve been opened to other issues along with the environmental. What’s been interesting is approaching problems with a sustainability mindset, such as addressing poverty without impacting the environment. The RAP has brought a lot to my (English) major which has been interesting, opening my mind to a larger scale.”
“I want to go out and listen to people," says Lauren, "to interact with people as they are coming up with some real solutions to today’s problems. I’m a fan of learning by trial, figuring stuff out, and the process gets you a group of people who are motivated and ready to do something.”
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CU-Boulder names Christina Gonzales associate vice chancellor and dean of students - Mon, 14 May 2012
The University of Colorado Boulder today named Christina Gonzales as the new associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students effective July 1. Gonzales is currently associate dean of students at the University of California, Berkeley.
“I am extremely pleased that Christina has agreed to join the Division of Student Affairs,” said Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Deb Coffin, to whom Gonzales will report. “She brings a depth and breadth of experience in student affairs that will push our initiatives forward, and she clearly shares our passion for providing excellent student services, advancing efforts around diversity and inclusion, and encouraging student involvement.”
“She is already a proven leader and we look forward to the insight and creativity she will add to our team,” Coffin added.
At UC Berkeley Gonzales established a bystander violence prevention program, created the Students of Concern Committee and led organizations through business process improvements. In partnership with the dean she provided strategic direction and leadership for the public service center, Career Center, Center for Student Leadership (Greek life, student involvement and leadership), Center for Student Conduct, Student Legal Services, the assessment team, and student government auxiliary and business operations. In the last year she also served as the director for student conduct where she led the team through a reorganization that included integrating a new code of conduct and creating a student-centered philosophy.
“I’m honored to be chosen as dean of students and associate vice chancellor at CU-Boulder,” said Gonzales. “CU-Boulder’s unique student culture, dynamic learning environment and dedicated faculty, staff and administration make it an ideal destination. I’m looking forward to getting to know the campus and the Boulder community, and to building on the innovative programs that promote the success of CU students.”
In her new position at CU-Boulder Gonzales will directly oversee a number of areas including Student Success and Retention, Student Conduct and the Honor Code, Orientation and Assessment, and the assistant dean of students in charge of the Student Organizations Finance Office and the Center for Multicultural Affairs.
Prior to her current position at UC Berkeley Gonzales was at Arizona State University from March 1999 to August 2009, working her way up from an academic adviser to the associate dean for student affairs.
She holds a B.S. in history from Western New Mexico University and a master’s degree in educational management and development from New Mexico State University, and has completed coursework toward a Doctor of Education in educational leadership and policy studies.

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CU professor involved in $8.3 million Gates Foundation childhood malnutrition study - Mon, 14 May 2012

An $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund an international team of scientists, including a University of Colorado Boulder professor focused on finding new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a critical global health problem: malnutrition in infants and children.
Rob Knight, a scientist at CU-Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute, will be working with a research team led by Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The goal is to discover novel dietary and microbial therapeutics targeting infants and children living in countries with rampant malnutrition.
“Our hope is that by understanding the differences in individual gut microbial communities in both healthy and malnourished individuals, together with influences in diet including compounds and microbes transferred in breast milk, we will be able to better understand and develop new treatments for malnutrition,” said Knight, also an associate professor in CU-Boulder’s chemistry and biochemistry department. “Such treatments could include prebiotics, probiotics, antibiotics or nutrition which might help reverse severe malnutrition in different individuals.”
Severe malnutrition has long been thought to stem simply from a lack of adequate food, but now scientists understand the condition is far more complex and may involve a breakdown in the way gut microbial communities process various diet components.
“A complex relationship exists between diet, gut microbial communities and the immune system in severely malnourished children,” says Gordon, the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of Washington University’s Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology. “We now have a way to tease apart these influences. Recreating the human gut ecosystem in mice gives us a way to control these variables. The lead compounds derived from these well-controlled, pre-clinical studies can be considered for future clinical trials in malnourished infants and children.”
Research led by Knight has shown that people carry “personalized” bacteria on many individual areas of the body, including the intestine. His CU-Boulder lab will host the Gates Foundation study database integrating various types of information, including whole-genome sequencing and microbial community analyses.
As part of the project, Knight and his CU-Boulder team will develop methods for high-throughput sequencing and analysis of bacterial genomes from “personalized culture collections,” in which hundreds of strains of bacteria will be isolated and characterized from the intestines of individual people. The personalized culture collections will be used to colonize lab mice in different combinations to test which strains are most important, said Knight.
The community of intestinal microbes and its vast collection of genes, known as the gut microbiome, are assembled right from birth and influenced by babies’ early environments and the first foods they consume, such as breast milk. As part of the Gates Foundation’s Breast Milk, Gut Microbiome and Immunity, or BMMI, Project, the scientists will evaluate the relationship among first foods, the developing community of microbes in the intestine and the developing immune system.
The new research builds on ongoing clinical studies in Africa, South Asia and South America of malnourished and healthy infants and children and their mothers, which also are funded by the Gates Foundation.
As part of the new project, scientists will evaluate the function of gut microbial communities in malnourished and healthy infants and children living in multiple countries where malnutrition is prevalent. They also will characterize the nutritional content and immune activity present in breast milk samples obtained from the children’s mothers during periods of exclusive and supplemental breastfeeding.
In parallel, the scientists will use a preclinical discovery pipeline recently developed in Gordon’s laboratory to identify next-generation probiotics and nutrient supplements or combinations of the two -- known as synbiotics -- that may promote healthy growth in infants and children.
The investigators will transplant communities of intestinal microbes obtained from stool samples from both malnourished and healthy children into germ-free mice raised under sterile conditions. These mice will essentially harbor collections of human gut microbes that mimic those found in the children, and they will be fed the same diets as the children.
Then using the mice, the scientists can carefully evaluate how various nutritional interventions influence the workings of the gut microbiomes obtained from the children. They will be able to determine which microbes respond, how they respond and how they affect the overall function of the gut microbiomes. The researchers also will evaluate certain aspects of childhood development.
CU-Boulder graduate students will be involved in the BMMI Project, including doctoral students in the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology, or IQ Biology, program recently launched by the BioFrontiers Institute directed by Nobel laureate Tom Cech. The students are involved in semester-long rotations that immerse them in mathematical biology, computational biology, biophysics and bio-imaging as they work toward doctoral degrees.
“IQ Biology students are being trained with the exact mixture of mathematical, computational and biological techniques essential for progress on complex, challenging projects like the Gates BMMI Project,” said Knight. Dan Knights, the first graduate of the IQ Biology program, helped to lay the groundwork for the CU portion of the BMMI effort with novel research on applying machine learning to studies of the human microbiome, said Knight, who also is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist.
Other scientists involved in the Gates BMMI project include Per Ashorn of the University of Tampere School of Medicine in Finland; Kathryn Dewey of the University of California, Davis; Michael Gottlieb of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health; Kenneth Maleta of the University of Malawi College of Medicine; David Mills of the University of California, Davis; Jeremy Nicholson of Imperial College, London; and Linda Saif of Ohio State University.
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“Our hope is that by understanding the differences in individual gut microbial communities in both healthy and malnourished individuals, together with influences in diet including compounds and microbes transferred in breast milk, we will be able to better understand and develop new treatments for malnutrition,” said Rob Knight, an associate professor in CU-Boulder’s chemistry and biochemistry department and a scientist at BioFrontiers Institute. “Such treatments could include prebiotics, probiotics, antibiotics or nutrition which might help reverse severe malnutrition in different individuals.”
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Overfed black holes shut down galactic star-making, says new study involving CU-Boulder - Thu, 10 May 2012
Galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black holes, according to a new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder using the Herschel Space Observatory.
The results from Hershel, a European Space Agency-led mission involving NASA, demonstrate that black holes suppressed galactic star formation when the universe was less than half its current age. The team made observations with the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, or SPIRE instrument, onboard Herschel, said CU-Boulder Professor Jason Glenn, a co-author on the study.
“We want to know how star formation and black hole activity are linked,” said Mathew Page of University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, lead study author. “The two processes increase together up to a point, but the most energetic black holes appear to turn off star formation.”
A paper on the subject involving more than two dozen institutions is being published in the May 10 issue of Nature. CU-Boulder is receiving more than $2 million from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena for the combined support of SPIRE instrument development and science data analysis during the lifetime of the orbiting telescope.
Previous studies of nearby galaxies have suggested that active, massive black holes in the centers of galaxies can quench star formation as they heat up and eject energy, dispersing the reservoirs of cold gas that are required to create new stars. But the relationship of giant, luminous black holes -- known as active galactic nuclei -- to star formation has been unclear, Glenn said.
“By using data from Herschel, we now have the first direct evidence that the larger, more energetic black holes were quenching star formation billions of years ago,” said Glenn of CU-Boulder’s astrophysical and planetary sciences department. “The study shows a correlation between the amount of black hole accretion -- essentially the amount of material falling into it -- and the limiting of star formation.”
Supermassive black holes, with masses as large as many millions of suns, are believed to reside in the hearts of all large galaxies. When gas and dust fall into them, the matter is accelerated and heated, releasing great torrents of energy. Earlier in the history of the universe, these objects were often much brighter and more energetic, and star formation also was livelier back then, according to the research team.
The team used Herschel to observe 65 distant galaxies thought to be between 8 billion and 12 billion years old -- a time when galaxies were forming stars at about 30 to 100 times the current rate and when some galaxies were more than 1,000 times brighter than our Milky Way. Made in the far infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with SPIRE, the observations were part of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey, or HerMES, which involves more than 100 astronomers from six countries, including Glenn.
The bulk of the energy released by developing stars in the observed galaxies was in the form of visible and ultraviolet light that was absorbed by surrounding dust clouds, making it invisible to most telescopes, said Glenn, also a fellow at CU-Boulder’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy. But the heated dust clouds around the developing stars were observed by SPIRE to glow in the far infrared, or submillimeter wavelengths, allowing astronomers to estimate rates of star formation.
Herschel is the first space observatory to make high-resolution images at submillimeter wavelengths, which are longer than visible and infrared light waves and shorter than radio waves, said Glenn. SPIRE was designed to look for emissions from clouds and dust in galaxies linked to star formation back to roughly 13 billion years ago -- just a billion or so years after the big bang, he said.
Herschel science instruments were provided by a consortia of European institutes and with participation by NASA. NASA’s Herschel Project Office is based at JPL, which contributed technology for two of Herschel’s three science instruments. The NASA Herschel Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech, supports the U.S. astronomical community. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
For more information on the Herschel Space Observatory visit http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/index.html orhttp://www.nasa.gov/herschel. For more information on CU-Boulder’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy visithttp://casa.colorado.edu/. For more information on CU-Boulder’s astrophysical and planetary sciences department visithttp://aps.colorado.edu/.

Boulder to celebrate Electric Vehicle Day with expo, film screening May 17 at CU - Thu, 10 May 2012
The latest in electric vehicle technology -- including cars, motorcycles, bicycles and charging systems -- will be showcased in the west parking lot of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Wolf Law Building from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 17.
A screening of the documentary “Revenge of the Electric Vehicle” with a question-and-answer session will be held later that day from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in room 1B20 of the CU-Boulder Visual Arts Complex. Both events, including refreshments and door prizes donated by local sponsors, are free and open to the public.
CU-Boulder, the city of Boulder, Boulder County and Northern Colorado Clean Cities are hosting the events in recognition of May 17 as the statewide Electric Vehicle Day.
A proclamation for the day, recently issued by Gov. John Hickenlooper, states that electrified transportation reduces air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on imported petroleum. Electrified transportation also helps increase energy security, environmental sustainability and Colorado jobs, according to the proclamation.
“Are electric vehicles the spark of our future?” asked Bryan Flansburg, director of CU-Boulder transportation services. “This will be a fun way to check out the technology -- to sit in vehicles, look at the engines, kick the tires and learn how the systems work.”
Attendees at the expo also will have the opportunity to visit with vendors, vehicle owners, local transportation groups, representatives from Xcel Energy and the hosting organizations.
“This is a wonderful event that will showcase what’s available now for electrified transportation,” said Joe Castro, city of Boulder facilities and fleet manager. “Attendees can also talk to representatives on hand to hear what Boulder is doing to integrate smart charging for electric vehicles.”
The Electric Ride -- a project of the American Lung Association in Colorado and the Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition -- is spearheading Electric Vehicle Day events across the state. The efforts are intended to foster electric vehicle awareness and expansion in the Rocky Mountain region.
For more information on the Boulder-area Electric Vehicle Day events, including parking information and a schedule, visithttp://northcolocleancities.com/shared/files/100/1978.pdf.
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