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English alumnus Dick Shahan recently made a $75,000 gift commitment to CU-Boulder 鈥� $50,000 of which established an endowment to create the Dick Shahan CU-Boulder Undergraduate Writing Competition, expected to generate an annual prize of $2,000 for a prose piece that features Boulder. The additional $25,000 will fund the Shahan Graduate Fellowships in the CU-Boulder English Department, providing an annual $1,000 research grant for an English graduate student.

Children who spend more time in less structured activities鈥攆rom playing outside to reading books to visiting the zoo鈥攁re better able to set their own goals and take actions to meet those goals without prodding from adults, according to a new study by the 麻豆视频.

Interested in exploring the basic concepts of our legal system? Have you always wondered what it would be like to go to law school? University of Colorado faculty, staff and friends are invited to enjoy priority registration for Mini Law School 2014. Registration opens to the public on June 30 and the class is expected to fill up quickly. Learn more >>

A new educational partnership at the 麻豆视频 will provide expanded degree options for working professionals interested in specialized graduate education focused on energy and water. Beginning this fall, qualified students can earn both a Master of Engineering (ME) degree and a Professional Certificate in Renewable and Sustainable Energy or a Professional Certificate in Water Engineering and Management. The degree and certificates can be earned either via distance education or in campus classes and may be pursued either part- or full-time.

A new study on obesity and people鈥檚 happiness by CU-Boulder sociology researchers suggests that it鈥檚 not obesity by itself that determines whether a person is happy with their body image but where you live. According to study co-author Philip Pendergast, a doctoral student in sociology at CU-Boulder, if a person who is obese lives in a community where people share the same body type they are more likely to be happier.

In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a 鈥渢heoretical鈥� class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna 呕ytkow.

A 麻豆视频 payload carrying a novel device designed to reduce the weight and cost of spacecraft fuel pumping systems has been manifested for launch on a suborbital space plane called SpaceShipTwo developed by the aerospace company Virgin Galactic.

Friday, June 6, marks the 25th anniversary of the FBI and EPA raid on Rocky Flats, the former U.S. nuclear weapons facility in Arvada. In an effort to recognize a significant part of Colorado鈥檚 history, the Arvada Center of the Arts, in partnership with CU-Boulder's Center of the American West , will host a weekend-long event, " Rocky Flats Then and Now: 25 Years After the Raid ," June 6 - 8. CU-Boulder Professor Emeritus Len Ackland will give the event鈥檚 introduction talk, 鈥淩ocky Flats Then and Now鈥� on Friday, June 6, at 7 p.m.

Bradley J. Birzer has been appointed the second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, the 麻豆视频 announced today. Birzer, a professor of history and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College in Michigan, will begin his one-year appointment beginning in fall 2014. 鈥淒r. Birzer brings impressive breadth to CU, primarily in the discipline of history as well as areas of literary significance,鈥� said Steven R. Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder.

The amount of 鈥渉edging鈥� language鈥攚ords that suggest room for doubt鈥攗sed by prominent newspapers in articles about climate change has increased over time, according to a new study by the 麻豆视频. The study, published in the journal Environmental Communication , also found that newspapers in the U.S. use more hedging language in climate stories than their counterparts in Spain.