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A team of °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ engineers will travel to Haiti this month to support the growth of green energy on the two-year anniversary of the country’s devastating earthquake. Engineering professors Alan Mickelson and Mike Hannigan and graduate student Matt Hulse will be in Haiti Jan. 8-16 to collaborate with the Neges Foundation school at Leogane to create a vocational training program on the installation, operation and maintenance of renewable energy systems.

°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Provost Russell L. Moore today named Robert Boswell as CU-Boulder vice chancellor for diversity, equity and community engagement effective Jan. 1, 2012.

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 °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼'s Leeds School of Business.

The University Memorial Center at the °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼, 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.

The °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ 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.

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.

Fourteen graduate students from the Engineering for Developing Communities program at the °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ traveled abroad this summer to gain field experience in community development.

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.

Student leaders will join the city of Boulder and °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ 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.

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 °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ shows.