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University of Colorado at Boulder engineering doctoral students Chris Brotherton and Michael Raulli are the first recipients of the Sandia Doctoral Fellowship, a new fellowship supporting research in micro and nano systems established at CU-Boulder.

Boulder researchers at the University of Colorado and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration anticipate an emerging El Niño event may reduce the severity of drought conditions in the Southwest United States this summer. The announcement was made this week by researchers at the Climate Diagnostics Center, run jointly by CU-Boulder and NOAA through the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. CIRES is headquartered on the CU-Boulder campus.

Â鶹ÒùÔº at the University of Colorado at Boulder will have a wider choice of courses this summer featuring guest faculty from universities around the world. The Faculty-In-Residence-Summer-Term, or FIRST program, starts on May 13 and will continue throughout the summer. The 12 initial faculty members come from New Zealand, Sweden and France, in addition to the United States.

Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman will give the commencement address on Friday, May 10, when the University of Colorado at Boulder will confer 4,377 degrees during the spring commencement ceremony. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium, regardless of the weather, and will last about an hour and a half. Commencement is free and open to the public and no tickets are required. Guests are asked not to bring large purses or bags to the ceremony. Guests entering the stadium may be subject to search.