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This week is Be ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Week, and as such, campus is alit with chances to proclaim your love for our hallowed school. As well as celebrating school pride, campus is serving up multiple opportunities for you to meet new people and get involved in your preferred area of campus life.

A ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and North Carolina State University-led team has produced the first atlas of airborne microbes across the continental U.S., a feat that has implications for better understanding health and disease in humans, animals and crops.

NASA’s MESSENGER mission to Mercury carrying an $8.7 million ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. 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 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.

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.