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New students at the University of Colorado Boulder will be greeted with dozens of activities including a welcome convocation, a Folsom Field pep rally and a 鈥淕lobal Jam鈥� international food and music fest during Week of Welcome beginning Aug. 21. The free events give new students a chance to get acquainted with each other, the campus and surrounding community before classes start on Aug. 25. The activities are scheduled in addition to orientation sessions that cover the details of class registration, policies and student services at each college.

The University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 Baker Hall, closed the past 15 months for its first major renovation in more than 75 years, is welcoming 456 students next week with a modernized interior that better addresses the needs of today鈥檚 students while retaining the building鈥檚 original charm.

New and returning students moving into the University of Colorado Boulder residence halls can choose which day to move in Aug. 18-21, will swipe Buff OneCards instead of filling out a form to check in and will be able to take advantage of 鈥淨uick Drop Stations.鈥� 鈥淲e take pride in doing our best to provide a warm welcome and a helping hand for our new and returning students,鈥� said John Fox, associate director of Residence Life. 鈥淭his year we decided to make some changes in order to make the process as smooth as possible.鈥�

The Senior Auditors Program provides Colorado residents, ages 55 and older, the opportunity to attend classes on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Tuition is free and participants pay just an administrative fee to cover registration, application processing and IT support. The program was established in 1973 and is coordinated through the 抖阴旅行射-Boulder Alumni Association. Course availability is dependent upon enrollment limits, with tuition-paying students given priority, and on fire code restrictions, which determine the number of students allowed in a room. Grades are not awarded and auditors do not receive credit toward a degree.

A genetic sleuthing effort led by the University of Colorado Boulder that resulted in the identification of Colorado鈥檚 鈥渢rue鈥� native greenback cutthroat trout two years ago has come full circle with the stocking of the official state fish into Colorado鈥檚 high country.

Sierra Nevada Corp. news release Sierra Nevada Corporation鈥檚 (SNC) Space Systems is pleased to announce it is expanding its relationship with the University of Colorado Boulder (抖阴旅行射-Boulder) through the signing of a letter of cooperation with 抖阴旅行射-Boulder鈥檚 BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe). Through the cooperation, SNC and BioServe will jointly explore ways the Dream Chaser 庐 Space Utility Vehicle (SUV) can serve as an orbital platform for scientific experiments in microgravity and space life science research.

Members of the Boulder Chamber, a nonprofit business support and advocacy organization, visited 抖阴旅行射-Boulder July 29 to learn about the university鈥檚 latest advances in space science and aerospace. The Aerospace Industry Insights event, held at Fiske Planetarium, brought together local, state and federal officials; 抖阴旅行射-Boulder faculty, students and administrators; and leaders from the local business community. The purpose of the event, the first in a series sponsored by 抖阴旅行射-Boulder and the Boulder Chamber, was to highlight for the business community 抖阴旅行射-Boulder's research and innovation in order to foster continued partnership and economic growth.

Ruth Ellen Kocher, professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of Colorado Boulder, has won a prestigious PEN Literary Award. Kocher was a co-winner of the PEN Open Book Award for her book of poems titled domina Un/blued. The award recognizes an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color. Also winning the award was Nina McConigley for Cowboys and East Indians .

A program designed at the University of Colorado Boulder to teach kids to code using video games is being introduced into New York City public schools as part of an initiative to give every student access to computer science education. Scalable Game Design is a program developed over two decades by 抖阴旅行射-Boulder computer science Professor Alexander Repenning to spark an interest in coding among kids by allowing them to design and build their own video games. The idea behind the program, which uses drag-and-drop programming tools, is to combat the widely held notion that computer programming is hard and boring.

Steve Hillard ('76) knew he wasn't done giving back to the University of Colorado Law School. He had donated generously to the capital campaign for the Wolf Law Building, but he had bigger plans. "I had a still-unfulfilled obligation to Colorado Law," said Hillard. "I am humbled by the fact that I have had some success in my career, and I definitely believe in giving back."