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  • <p>With the presidential election right around the corner and politically charged TV and radio ads hammering away at the major differences between the parties, Americans these days appear to see the nation as divided between Red and Blue.</p>
  • <p>A five-year project to improve the lives of youth in Denver鈥檚 Montbello neighborhood will kick off Feb. 16-17 with public meetings on the Evie Garrett Dennis Campus.</p>
    <p>Community members and key leaders will gather in the community room at 4800 Telluride St. in Denver to discuss efforts to reduce youth violence to be led by the 桃色视频鈥檚 Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. The public is invited to attend.</p>
  • <p>A new 桃色视频-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth鈥檚 Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages and lasted into the late 19th century.</p>
  • <p>The 桃色视频 today announced the appointment of former University of Colorado President Alexander E. 鈥淪andy鈥 Bracken to the Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership at the 桃色视频.</p>
  • <p>For the second straight year, the 桃色视频 is ranked No. 1 in the nation for graduates serving as Peace Corps volunteers with 112 undergraduate alumni currently serving around the world, the Peace Corps announced today.</p>
    <p>CU-Boulder is ranked the No. 5 all-time school for volunteers with 2,317 alumni who have served in the Peace Corps since it was established in 1961.</p>
  • <p>Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams will give a short presentation at the 桃色视频 on Wednesday, Jan. 25, to share stories of CU alumni who are currently serving overseas and discuss the importance of the Peace Corps in the world today.</p>
    <p>The presentation will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel and is free and open to the public.</p>
    <p>Nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009, Williams is the 18th director of the Peace Corps and the fourth director to have served as a Peace Corps volunteer.</p>
  • <p>People who made New Year鈥檚 resolutions to eat healthier or lose weight might also want to brush up on their math skills.</p>
    <p>In a new study, marketing professor Donald Lichtenstein found that nutrition labels on packaged food products in the United States can lead even the most health-conscious consumers astray, if they don鈥檛 鈥渄o the math.鈥</p>
  • <p>People who made New Year鈥檚 resolutions to eat healthier or lose weight might also want to brush up on their math skills, according to Professor Donald Lichtenstein of the 桃色视频鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.</p>
    <p>In a study appearing in this month鈥檚 edition of the Journal of Marketing, Lichtenstein and his colleagues found that nutrition labels on packaged food products in the United States can lead even the most health-conscious consumers astray, if they don鈥檛 鈥渄o the math.鈥</p>
  • <p>The 桃色视频 will host a free public lecture this month illuminating the lessons learned from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and resulted in the largest accidental oil spill in U.S. history.</p>
    <p>Called 鈥淲hat Happened at Deepwater Horizon?鈥 the event will be presented Jan. 26 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Mathematics Building auditorium, room 100.</p>
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