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For the second time in his head coaching career, Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre has led his team to a bowl berth.

The Buffs have been doing their best all week to treat this game just like they've treated every other game this year: a game they need to win. They are one win away from the Pac-12 football title and the program's first conference title since 2001.

At the end of August, Chris Lehnertz (EPOBio’85) became the 19th superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, one of the most famous and visited in the National Park system. The first woman to oversee Grand Canyon since it was first set aside as public space more than 100 years ago, Lehnertz is at home in America’s magnificent public spaces.

We partnered with the Latino History Project to preserve the valuable history of our local Latino community, which is now being taught across ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Valley and St. Vrain school districts.

After more than 20 years at the College of Music, Professor of Voice Patrick Mason has announced he will retire from teaching at the end of this academic year.

Kathryn Ramirez-Aguilar, founder and program manager of the CU Green Labs Program, was presented with the Go Beyond Award for individual achievement at the 2016 International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) annual conference.

Three CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ professors have won prestigious fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. Gerardo Gutierrez, Rebecca Maloy and Mithi Mukherjee are among 69 fellows chosen from 1,100 applicants.

CU head coach Mike MacIntyre has been named the Walter Camp 2016 Coach of the Year, joining Bill McCartney (1989) as the only coaches in Colorado history to be named the National Coach of the Year. The honor for MacIntyre comes on the heels of being named the Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year on Tuesday.

You may have seen that conservative journalist Milo Yiannopoulos will be coming to CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ on Jan. 25 at the invitation of two student groups, the College Republicans and Turning Point USA. Some of you have expressed your concerns on social media, in letters to my office, and to me in person that CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ is allowing such a controversial speaker to hold an event in a campus building.

With the events at The Ohio State University on Monday, we would like to remind you of some of the terminology that may be used to communicate to you during an emergency situation, and why it is used.