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Dark-colored dust that settles on snow in the Upper Colorado River Basin makes the snow melt early and robs the Colorado River of about 5 percent of its water each year, says a new study co-authored by researchers from the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's fall 2010 census figures show an enrollment of 29,952 degree- and licensure-seeking students, a total enrollment within 1 percent of last year, with increases in graduate, international and students of color enrollment.

The University of Colorado Board of Regents today awarded three professors the university's highest faculty honor, designation as Distinguished Professor.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will highlight the breadth of artistic and cultural resources available on campus through a variety of free and low-cost events during Arts and Culture Week Sept. 19-25.

The University of Colorado Student Government is coordinating a number of relief efforts for residents displaced by the Fourmile Canyon Fire, including a temporary housing online message board, a donation center and a coin drive.

Professor Thomas Veblen of the geography department can address the ecological effects of wildfires in Colorado; climate change and wildfires; fires and bark beetles; and wildfires. He can be reached at 303-492-8528 or Thomas.Veblen@colorado.edu . E-mail is the best way contact him. Jane Bock, retired professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, can address western wildfire ecology. She can be reached at 970-593-0343 or 303-579-9739, or by e-mail at Jane.Bock@colorado.edu .

Student Involvement Week will highlight myriad opportunities for University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø students to be involved with their campus and the greater Â鶹¹ÙÍø community beginning Sept. 7.

Observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of "star guts" being ejected into space following the explosion, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will offer a series of free events on campus Sept. 7-9 aimed at suicide awareness and prevention.

University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up yesterday.