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NASA’s MESSENGER mission to Mercury carrying an $8.7 million ÐßÐßÊÓƵ instrument is slated to run out of fuel and crash into the planet in the coming days after a wildly successful, four-year orbiting mission chock full of discoveries.

If you’ve ever gazed into the night sky and wondered at the magnitude of the universe, you have an opportunity for a closer look of the cosmos during Astronomy Day being held this Saturday at CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ. Since 2002, Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory, located on the campus, have opened their doors to the public for a free Astronomy Day celebration.

Professor Fred Anderson of the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ history department has been awarded the 2015 Hazel Barnes Prize, the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the university. Since 1992, the Hazel Barnes Prize has been awarded each year to a CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ faculty member who best exemplifies the enriching interrelationship between teaching and research, and whose work has had a significant impact on students, faculty, colleagues and the university.

Pioneering behavioral scientist Anthony Biglan will discuss how creating nurturing environments is key to raising better young citizens and building a healthier, happier and more prosperous Colorado and society as a whole on Monday, April 27.

The Vietnamese Student Association puts on their annual cultural show, and the Caribbean Student Association gives the song "Buffalo Soldier" a new meaning as they invite all their fellow Buffaloes to celebrate the impending end of semester.

A new material developed at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ could radically reduce the energy needed to produce a wide variety of plastic products, from grocery bags and cling wrap to replacement hips and bulletproof vests.

Basements that flooded after heavy rains deluged the Colorado Front Range in September 2013 had higher levels of airborne mold and other fungi months after the waters receded compared with basements that didn’t flood, according to a study by the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ.

Topics such as healthcare, immigration and many other global issues are the focus of the Conference on World Affairs. While the CU International Festival gives attendees the opportunity to celebrate the diversity of our own campus.

A team of scientific investigators is now in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest, aiming to uncover reasons for a mysterious methane hotspot detected from space by a European satellite. The joint project is working to solve the mystery from the air, on the ground, and with mobile laboratories.

ÐßÐßÊÓƵ faculty and students are primed to get back in action following the Easter restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful atom smasher located near Geneva, Switzerland, after a two-year hiatus.