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<p>A Kurdish delegation will visit the �Ǹ�Թ� campus Sept. 29 and 30 to deliver a public talk on the political situation in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and receive an electronic copy of important documents captured by Kurdish rebels in 1991 but removed from Iraq for safekeeping and analysis.</p>

<p>The �Ǹ�Թ� welcomed a freshman class of 5,869 students, a slight increase by 0.4 percent over last year, and in the process achieved the most academically qualified and diverse incoming class in the campus’s history.</p>
<p>Fall 2014 census figures show a total enrollment of 29,772 degree- and licensure-seeking students, 447 students more than last year.</p>
<p>A total of 3,083 Colorado residents enrolled as new freshmen in the fall class, as well as 2,786 from out of state and a record 386 freshman international students, a 41 percent increase from last year. </p>

<p>Two �Ǹ�Թ� 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.</p>

<p>An international research effort organized by the �Ǹ�Թ� conducted the first multiple, unmanned aircraft interception of a telltale rush of cold air preceding a thunderstorm known as a “gust front” as it rolled across the Pawnee National Grassland in northeast Colorado on Aug. 14.</p>

<p>Nearly 800 incoming students at the �Ǹ�Թ� will spend their first Saturday as college students helping others in the community during the “Buff Day of Service” on Aug. 23.</p>

<p>New students at the �Ǹ�Թ� will be greeted with dozens of activities including a welcome convocation, a Folsom Field pep rally and a “Global Jam” international food and music fest during Week of Welcome beginning Aug. 21.</p>
<p>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.</p>

<p>A program designed at the �Ǹ�Թ� 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.</p>
<p>Scalable Game Design is a program developed over two decades by CU-�Ǹ�Թ� 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.</p>

<p>An international team led by the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and involving the �Ǹ�Թ� has a new tool to look for the oldest galaxies in the universe: 32 days of observing time with the Hubble Space Telescope.</p>

<p>Last week, the CU-�Ǹ�Թ� School of Education hosted more than 750 scholars and graduate students from all over the world for the <a href="http://www.isls.org/icls2014/">International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)</a>. Chaired this year by professors Bill Penuel, Susan Jurow and Kevin O’Connor, the conference has been held biannually for more than 20 years in places such as Australia and the Netherlands as well as throughout the United States.</p>

<p>The Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $5 million to the �Ǹ�Թ�, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and Northwestern University to create a new center that will study how educational leaders—including school district supervisors and principals—use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.</p>