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The first comprehensive study of the history of the death penalty in Colorado shows a longstanding unease with capital punishment and a general trend toward abolition, according to a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder expert. Since the 1859 hanging of John Stoefel from a cottonwood tree in Cherry Creek in the new settlement of Denver in the Kansas Territory, another 102 legally mandated executions were carried out through 2003, said sociology Professor Michael Radelet, one of the nation's leading experts on the death penalty.

Local students were among the 4,943 students who received degrees May 9 during spring commencement ceremonies on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder campus.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder English Professor Jeffrey Robinson has won the university's highest teaching and research honor, the Hazel Barnes Prize, for his work in the area of Romantic literature and poetics. Robinson holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Chicago and Brandeis University. He said his Hazel Barnes Prize, which carries a $20,000 award, is recognition of his 32-year career at CU-Boulder.

The conflicting opinions of Western water resource stakeholders are the centerpiece of a unique new summer course at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. As part of "Western Issues: Science, Policy and Public Perception," students will meet with competing interests in the fight for control of the West's most precious resource. The students will then attempt to create solutions to water-related conflicts.