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The Center for Sustainable Tourism at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø honored state tourism professionals and projects at a ceremony Thursday night, Oct. 29, recognizing innovation and dedication to Colorado's tourism industry. The awards program – which kicks off the 1998 Colorado Travel and Tourism Conference – was at the University Club, 972 Broadway in Â鶹¹ÙÍø.

Members of the press are invited to watch the televised launch of NASA's space shuttle Discovery on Thursday, Oct. 29, at noon in the new Lockheed Martin Room in CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's College of Engineering and Applied Science. The launch will feature the return to space of former Mercury astronaut John Glenn and the launch of eight experiments and hardware developed by BioServe Space Technologies, which is headquartered at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø. BioServe is a joint venture between NASA, the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Kansas State University.

Leo Radzihovsky, a 32-year-old assistant professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø, has won a prestigious and highly competitive $625,000 Packard Fellowship. Radzihovsky and 23 other recipients were cited by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as among "the most promising science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States." Other 1998 recipients included young faculty members at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Cal Tech, MIT and the universities of California and Chicago.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Career Services department will host a statewide minority career conference on Nov. 11. More than 50 employers, including Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, the Colorado Department of Corrections, Andersen Consulting and the Federal Reserve Bank, will be on hand looking for full- and part-time employees and interns.