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<p>Singing in your first professional opera is challenge enough. Throw in a 12-hour, trans-Atlantic flight and a mere two days of rehearsal time — with two different conductors — and you’ve got a grand task indeed.</p>
<p>But that’s just what <a href="http://music.colorado.edu">�Թ��� of Colorado College of Music</a> student Anna Englander will face in January when she travels to Italy to sing the key role of Suzuki for three performances of Puccini’s classic <em>Madama Butterfly</em> in three different cities.</p>

<p>In a new set of way-finding maps, planters at the �Թ��� of Colorado Boulder are more than decorative containers. The concrete vessels serve as directional prompts for people to navigate central campus.</p>
<p class="p1">The bronze buffalo statue near Folsom Field is another cue used in the online maps, as well as references like “exhaust fan at 10 o’clock” to guide those who use their sense of sound to move about.</p>

<p>Provost Russell Moore today announced the charge and membership of a visioning committee to consider future opportunities for synergies and collaboration between �Թ��� of Colorado Boulder environment and sustainability research and academic programs. Sharon Collinge, director of environmental studies and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will chair the Environment and Sustainability Visioning Committee, or ESVC.</p>

<p>�Թ��� of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the formation of a search committee to lead a national search for a new dean of the College of Music. Jim Williams, dean of the Libraries, will chair the committee.</p>
<p>Dan Sher, who announced his resignation in August, will complete his 20th year as dean of the College of Music in June 2013 and then return to teaching in the college.</p>

<p>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will address the role of public lands in American life at the �Թ��� of Colorado Boulder on Sept. 13 as part of a conference commemorating the 200th anniversary of the General Land Office.</p>
<p>Salazar’s talk is part of a conference titled “The Nation Possessed:
The Conflicting Claims on America’s Public Lands” being held at CU-Boulder Sept. 11-14. The conference is sponsored by the Center of the American West and the Public Lands Foundation.</p>

The �Թ��� of Colorado Boulder is hosting a world premiere shared staging of all three versions of William Hogarth’s “Rake’s Progress” in September and October. Exhibitions of the original Hogarth artwork and prints by David Hockney, as well as the staging of Stravinsky’s opera, will provide a multidisciplinary interpretation of this seminal work in Hogarth’s career.

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<p>The �Թ��� of Colorado Boulder is hosting a world premiere shared staging of all three versions of William Hogarth’s “Rake’s Progress” in September and October.</p>
<p>Exhibitions of the original Hogarth artwork and prints by David Hockney, as well as the staging of Stravinsky’s opera, will provide a multidisciplinary interpretation of this seminal work in Hogarth’s career.</p>

<p>�Թ��� of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell Moore today announced that he has accepted the resignation of Daniel Sher as dean of the College of Music at CU-Boulder effective June 30, 2013.</p>
<p>Sher, who will have served in the post for 20 years when he steps down next summer, will return to the College of Music faculty. He was named dean of the College of Music in July of 1993.</p>

CU Opera provided student vocalists for the lead roles in the Colorado Music Festival’s presentation of Hans Krasa’s “Brundibar," June 28-29.

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<p>A monthlong summer exhibit at the �Թ��� of Colorado Boulder Art Museum will feature a dynamic new media composition based on innovative robotics technology.</p>
<p>Called “Swarm Wall,” the large-scale interactive piece displays changing fields of color, light and sound that are driven by a distributed form of artificial intelligence. </p>