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<p>������ý Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of a new dean for the College of Music.</p>
<p>The new dean will be Robert Shay, director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in Columbia. His appointment will begin Sept. 1.</p>

<p>The Mazal Holocaust Collection, considered the world’s largest privately owned Holocaust archive and the most significant U.S. collection outside of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has been donated to the ������ý.</p>

<p>This spring ������ý-Boulder’s Center for Asian Studies is launching a new <a href="http://cas.colorado.edu/content/asian-studies-minor">Asian Studies minor</a>, open to all students on campus, with the goal of helping students understand Asia as a region beyond one particular nation.</p>

<p>A renowned Seoul-based artist will use steel ground into a fine, black powder to write calligraphic inscriptions on the floor of the ������ý-Boulder Visual Arts Complex on Feb. 11, followed by a performance-art piece and a lecture by the artist.</p>
<p>This is one of several free events during the two-week residency of Kim Jongku at the ������ý Department of Art and Art History. Kim works in sculpture, video, painting and photography and will be in residency here Feb. 3 to Feb. 14.</p>

<p>������ý Provost Russell L. Moore today announced two finalists for the position of dean of the College of Music. The finalists for the position are Mary Ellen Poole, former dean of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Robert Shay, director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in Columbia.</p>

<p>The director of ������ý-Boulder’s journalism program has won a prestigious national award for challenging the “presumed centrality” of René Descartes’ groundbreaking theory of mind in 17th century French culture.</p>

<p>Some of the ������ý’s most promising musicians will receive scholarships thanks to Anna and John J. Sie, who have committed $2 million to establish the Daniel and Boyce Sher Distinguished Musicians Endowment.</p>
<p>Beginning in fall 2014, these Sher Distinguished Scholars (either undergraduate or graduate students) will be awarded full-ride scholarships to the College of Music based on their demonstrated exceptional ability and potential to excel at a national and international level.</p>

<p>Seven ������ý faculty and staff have received Fulbright grants to pursue research, teaching and training abroad during the 2013-14 academic year.</p>
<p>One of their proposed projects involves research in India on the use of the tanbura -- a long-necked stringed instrument -- as an aid for developing musical perception and intonation. Another involves research and lecturing in the United Kingdom on the representation of violence in contemporary Irish and American fiction.</p>

<p>������ý-Boulder Alumni Association news release</p>
<p>Since 1930 the ������ý’s best have been recognized at a special awards ceremony dedicated to highlighting their outstanding accomplishments and extraordinary service.</p>

<p class="p1">Sky gazers will be better immersed in spectacular views at the ������ý’s Fiske Planetarium since the dome’s nearly 40-year-old analog projector was replaced with a new digital “star ball” in a project completed this week.</p>
<p class="p1">The modernized Fiske, which now can show a wider range of media including ultra high-definition movies, will reopen to the public at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12.</p>