Getting Involved
- <p>Colorado will continue on the road to recovery and add jobs in 2012 following a positive year in 2011, according to economist Richard Wobbekind of the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è's Leeds School of Business.</p>
- <p>The University Memorial Center at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è, Colorado's official memorial to veterans, will host a Veterans Day ceremony on Friday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom. This year, the annual ceremony will include the dedication of plaques honoring the fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ceremony is open to the public.</p>
- <p>The ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è next week will become the first campus in the state to offer the Interactive Screening Program, allowing students to screen their mental health online and anonymously with support from a counselor.</p>
- <p>Community groups that are committed to revitalizing and beautifying University Hill are working together on a variety of painting, gardening and clean-up projects scheduled to occur on Saturday, Sept. 24.</p>
- <p>Fourteen graduate students from the Engineering for Developing Communities program at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è traveled abroad this summer to gain field experience in community development.</p>
- <p>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 her.</p>
- <p>Student leaders will join the city of Boulder and ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è officials next week to welcome students to the community and provide information on being good neighbors. "Walkabout" teams will be in the University Hill, Goss Grove and portions of Martin Acres neighborhoods.</p>
- <p>Latino adolescents who share knowledge from the classroom, new media and information technology among immigrant families function as "civic information leaders," a new study by the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è shows.</p>
- <p>When NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program is shuttered following the Atlantis mission in July, the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è will look back at a rich relationship filled with triumph and tragedy and look ahead to an evolving international program of government and private efforts that will send humans and cargo into orbit.</p>
- <p>Colorado business leaders remained confident, although generally less optimistic about the economy looking ahead to the third quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è's Leeds School of Business.</p>