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The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or UROP , is one unique program that offers ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder students an opportunity to follow academic curiosities in every field. Designed to provide grant-writing experience, connect students to faculty and explore interests beyond the classroom, the program is open to all ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder undergraduates.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Board of Regents today approved 12 new ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder College of Media, Communication and Information degrees, in addition to a name change for one other degree. The vote, held today at the University Memorial Center on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus, was the final Board of Regents approval required for the new College of Media, Communication and Information before the degrees are forwarded to the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Commission on Higher Education for approval. The college is now accepting applications and will offer classes for new degrees starting in fall semester 2015.

The public is invited to attend a watch party at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder on Sunday, Sept. 21, when NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, designed to understand past climate change on Mars, inserts itself into orbit after a 10-month journey to the planet.

Continuing its commitment to improving America’s drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 9 announced more than $8 million in grants to create two national centers for research and innovation in small- to medium-sized drinking water systems.

After spending nearly six months on the International Space Station, University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder astronaut-alumnus Steve Swanson is slated to drift back to Earth in a Russian space capsule Sept. 10 before banging down on the steppe of Kazakhstan.

Have a question about the business minor? Thinking about adding a journalism degree? Can’t decide between a theater major or minor? Be sure to take advantage of the new campus-wide drop-in advising hours , available every Monday from 1 - 3 p.m. to access advising resources for any major or minor across campus.

Two University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder student aerospace engineering science teams have won prestigious international and national awards for the design of real-world space missions to Mars and the moon.

U.S. Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonin Scalia will deliver the fourth annual John Paul Stevens Lecture hosted by the Byron R. White Center and the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Law School on Wednesday, Oct. 1. The event will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Macky Auditorium on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus. A limited number of seats are available to the lecture for the general public at no cost. To register for tickets visit the center’s website at byronwhitecenter.org .

Tweets sent during last year’s massive flooding on ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥â€™s Front Range were able to detail the scope of damage to the area’s infrastructure, according to a study by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder. The findings can help geotechnical and structural engineers more effectively direct their reconnaissance efforts after future natural disasters—including earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes—as well as provide them data that might otherwise be lost due to rapid cleanup efforts.

The public is invited to attend free, Saturday programs led by University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder faculty on popular topics as part of the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ on the Weekend series, which begins Sept. 6. With topics ranging from the sweeping stories behind celebrated musical compositions to the micro-level study of bacteria that uniquely forms each person’s microbiome, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ on the Weekend programs are designed to satisfy the community’s curiosity surrounding some of the intriguing research conducted at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder.