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When University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø senior Jennifer Willeke of Otis, Colo., attends commencement on May 7 she will become the second Willeke family member to graduate as a Boettcher Scholar from CU. Her sister, the third to hold the distinction, is currently enrolled at CU. All grew up in the town of about 500 people on the plains of northeast Colorado.

A major push in China for university professors and students to teach and learn in English will send CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø graduates and faculty to China this summer to teach the language. The opportunity is the result of a partnership forged by the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø with Xi'an Jiaotong University, a major technical and research university in Xi'an, China. The school is ranked as one of the top 10 universities in China, according to Anne Bliss, a faculty member in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric.

Special recognition ceremonies will be held by most University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø schools and colleges in addition to the main university commencement ceremony on Friday, May 7, at 8:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium. Following is a schedule of special events in the schools and colleges. * College of Architecture and Planning recognition ceremony, Thursday, May 6, at 4 p.m. in Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry, room 140. * Leeds School of Business undergraduate recognition ceremony, Thursday, May 6, at 4:30 p.m. in the Coors Events/Conference Center.

Two women faculty members from the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø were elected to the National Academy of Sciences last week, bringing to 19 the total number of CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø professors who have been named to the elite institution. Physics Department Professor Margaret Murnane, also a JILA fellow, and chemistry and biochemistry department Professor Margaret Tolbert, a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, were among 72 new members elected to the NAS in 2004.