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Longtime CU staff member this year became director of budget and finance for Continuing Education at CU-Boulder.

The author is tentatively scheduled to teach four undergraduate courses in the fall, three in political science — Constitutional Law 1 and 2 plus a course in American Political Thought — and one in environmental studies, Free-Market Environmentalism.

The committee has sought a “highly visible” scholar who is “deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.”

Timothy Orr has been named interim producing artistic director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, effective Feb. 1. He will replace Philip Sneed, who has accepted a position as executive director at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. Orr has served as associate producing director at CSF since March 2011. He has worked as [...]

Staging of Stravinsky opera set for this weekend at CU-Boulder’s Macky Auditorium.

The annual recognition goes to faculty members who demonstrate exemplary performance in research or creative work, a record of excellence in classroom teaching and supervision of individual learning.

Two weeks after professional cyclists race through Boulder and up Boulder Canyon, some riders in the 10th Annual Buffalo Bicycle Classic will follow much of the same route, the most mountainous section of Stage 6 of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

When a young caller for the University of Colorado Boulder’s annual giving program asked Roe Green a decade ago if she would consider increasing her $100 annual gift to $150, he was the first to get the hint that Green might become a key part of the theater program from which she’d graduated in 1970. [...]

An advisory committee of five faculty members and five community members is soliciting letters of interest and curriculum vitae for the position, which will be housed in the College of Arts and Sciences.

University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore on Tuesday named Steven Leigh as dean of CU-Boulder’s College of Arts and Sciences. Leigh currently serves as an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The appointment is effective July 1. “In Steven Leigh’s years at [...]

The new route will follow the most mountainous section of the Boulder stage of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore announced that four finalists have been named for the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The finalists for the position are Paul Beale, CU-Boulder; Antonio Cepeda-Benito, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Cox, CU-Boulder; and Steven Leigh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, according to John [...]

Garrison Roots likened great art to a “near accident” in a car: You are driving, attention drifting, when something darts in front of the car; you hit the brakes and are “snapped back” to consciousness.

In 1991, when Punam Chatterjee was 20 months old, a drunk driver careened into her parents’ car. Her leg was shattered, as was her father’s. Her mother lost an eye. Although she was too young to remember it, she has since learned that while her parents convalesced, nurses volunteered to comfort her and read to [...]

Provost Russell Moore announced that he has accepted the resignation of Todd Gleeson as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.