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The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder will hold its spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 9, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field. The ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will honor 5,927 candidates for degrees including 4,545 bachelor’s degrees, 908 master’s degrees, 149 law degrees and 325 doctoral degrees. Cathleen Black, a former media executive and author, is the keynote speaker for the ceremony.

When you’re a master’s candidate, in your final semester, you don’t have a lot of time for yourself. Your days are spent writing, researching, neglecting to sleep. And when you’re working toward your master’s in music, a good chunk of your day is spent practicing. That said, sometimes an opportunity presents itself that’s so good—an opportunity that will demand weeks of your precious time—that turning it down isn’t an option.

A new University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by drinking generally trump physically hazardous drinking behaviors when it comes to overall mortality rates.

Dead Week is upon us once more. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The following events can serve to facilitate the transition to finals week by providing an alternative activity to enjoy as a break from your studies.

University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder astronomers, who helped design and build instruments for and have made hundreds of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch, are celebrating the observatory’s 25th anniversary.

With an increase in business filings in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ through the first quarter of 2015 -- including new and renewing entities and trade names -- employment in the state is expected to keep growing during the second and third quarters of the year, according to a University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder report released today by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Secretary of State Wayne Williams.

This week is Be Boulder Week, and as such, campus is alit with chances to proclaim your love for our hallowed school. As well as celebrating school pride, campus is serving up multiple opportunities for you to meet new people and get involved in your preferred area of campus life.

A University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder and North Carolina State University-led team has produced the first atlas of airborne microbes across the continental U.S., a feat that has implications for better understanding health and disease in humans, animals and crops.

NASA’s MESSENGER mission to Mercury carrying an $8.7 million University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder instrument is slated to run out of fuel and crash into the planet in the coming days after a wildly successful, four-year orbiting mission chock full of discoveries.

If you’ve ever gazed into the night sky and wondered at the magnitude of the universe, you have an opportunity for a closer look of the cosmos during Astronomy Day being held this Saturday at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder. Since 2002, Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory, located on the campus, have opened their doors to the public for a free Astronomy Day celebration.