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<p><span>A �Ǹ�Թ�-led mission to explore and understand how the loss of atmospheric gas has changed the climate of Mars over the eons has been authorized by NASA to proceed to system delivery, spacecraft integration, testing and launch, which is slated for November 2013.</span></p>

<p>Space experiments dreamed up by three teenage winners of an international contest that will be streamed live on YouTube from the International Space Station Sept. 13 were made flight-ready by a �Ǹ�Թ� space center.</p>

<p><strong>Statement from CU-�Ǹ�Թ� Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano</strong></p>
<p>Today’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court upholds the high standards of academic integrity practiced every day by our faculty, and helps us to ensure the quality of instruction for all our students. It is vital that what is published and what is taught in the classroom be based on research and scholarship grounded in honest, accepted and time-tested methods. This was always what was at stake in this case for the university, and the winners today are our faculty and students.</p>
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<p>A new �Ǹ�Թ�-led study that ties forest “greenness” in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack indicates mid-elevation mountain ecosystems are most sensitive to rising temperatures and changes in precipitation and snowmelt.</p>

<p>A new �Ǹ�Թ�-led study that ties forest “greenness” in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack indicates mid-elevation mountain ecosystems are most sensitive to rising temperatures and changes in precipitation and snowmelt.</p>

<p>Warmer air temperatures since the 1980s may explain significant increases in zinc and other metal concentrations of ecological concern in a Rocky Mountain watershed, reports a new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and the �Ǹ�Թ�.</p>

<p>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will address the role of public lands in American life at the �Ǹ�Թ� on Sept. 13 as part of a conference commemorating the 200th anniversary of the General Land Office.</p>
<p>Salazar’s talk is part of a conference titled “The Nation Possessed:
The Conflicting Claims on America’s Public Lands” being held at CU-�Ǹ�Թ� Sept. 11-14. The conference is sponsored by the Center of the American West and the Public Lands Foundation.</p>

<p>Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court will give the keynote address at the University of Colorado Law School’s Gathering of the Bench and Bar Conference to be held Sept. 19-21 in �Ǹ�Թ�.</p>

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<p>The �Ǹ�Թ� is hosting a world premiere shared staging of all three versions of William Hogarth’s “Rake’s Progress” in September and October.</p>
<p>Exhibitions of the original Hogarth artwork and prints by David Hockney, as well as the staging of Stravinsky’s opera, will provide a multidisciplinary interpretation of this seminal work in Hogarth’s career.</p>

<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected the �Ǹ�Թ� to continue a federal/academic partnership that extends NOAA’s ability to study climate change, improve weather models and better predict how solar storms can disrupt communication and navigation technologies.</p>
<p><span id="">The selection means that NOAA will continue funding the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, for at least five years and up to 10 more years. CIRES was established at CU-�Ǹ�Թ� in 1967.</span></p>