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With a gift of appreciated stock, Ruth and Ken Wright of Â鶹¹ÙÍø have endowed a directorship with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. The fund will perpetually generate support to attract distinguished directors who will bring their artistic talents to Â鶹¹ÙÍø each summer.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will hold its annual Study Abroad Peer Advising Fair Tuesday, Sept. 26, in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Students will be able to gather general information about CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's 140 study abroad programs including program costs, scholarship opportunities and financial aid. Students also can explore new program options in Cuba, the Southern Cone (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay), Fiji, London, Berlin, Norway, Russia, Jordan and Turkey.

Area middle-school students get a lesson on harvesting WHO: CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍøÂ’s Office of Community Relations and Â鶹¹ÙÍø Community Food Share garden staff along with 11- to 14 year-old students from Sojourner School will be on hand to harvest and winterize the campus's four gardens. WHAT: The final harvest at the four community gardens on campus. Sponsors are CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍøÂ’s Office of Community Relations and Department of Facilities Management, and Â鶹¹ÙÍøÂ’s Community Food Share. WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 1 p.m.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor Emeritus Jacques Pankove was one of four nationally known innovators in urban building design, military aviation and optical technology to receive the outstanding engineering alumni award from the University of California, Berkeley, last week.

A minor explosion at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍøÂ’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy Research Lab about 11:40 a.m. today caused the temporary evacuation of the building. There were no injuries and only minor damage to the structure was reported. The approximately 15 students, faculty and researchers inside the building at the time were immediately evacuated. There was no smoke or fire in the lab, which is located in the CU Research Park at 38th Street and Colorado Avenue.

A campus health and wellness fair for University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø students, faculty, staff and community members will be held in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center on Tuesday, Sept. 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Among the programs and services to be featured will be blood pressure screenings, nutritional counseling, chair massage, chiropractic, smoking cessation, herbal medicine, women's health information, a signup for Sept. 20 cholesterol screenings and a raffle for prizes.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍøÂ’s Center for the American West will host a mock divorce trial between the urban and rural West on Wednesday, Sept. 27 in Telluride. The program will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the San Miguel County Courthouse. The event is free and open to the public.

Editors: Photographers are welcome to attend and photograph activities at the wellness fair. A campus health and wellness fair for University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø students, faculty, staff and community members will be held in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center on Tuesday, Sept. 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A memorial service for Adam Kolff, of Seattle, the University of Colorado student killed June 19th in a plane crash in Alaska, will be held Sept. 18 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus. Kolff, 27, graduated in the spring with a masterÂ’s degree in geography. His focus was on mining and protected areas in Peru. He had presented a paper on the results of his research during the American Association of Geographers annual meeting held last March in Pittsburgh.

For months, University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø student Eli Spear spent much of his time asking people to donate pennies. He eventually gathered close to 30,000 of them, totaling about $300. Next week, two unique pieces of art made from the coins Spear collected will go on public display. The first piece was created by 11 ethnic artists ranging in age from six to 14 from the Clare Gardens lower-income housing development just west of downtown Denver during a seven-week class Spear used to teach the children fundamental design principles.