CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Alumni Association Hosts Second Annual Camp Colorado

July 22, 2001

Approximately 350 incoming first year students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will participate in the second annual Camp Colorado on Aug. 20-22 to learn more about CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø traditions. According to camp organizer Matthew Hiser, CU alumni association director of student relations, students will travel to the Snow Mountain Ranch YMCA Camp outside of Winter Park for activities designed to introduce them to CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø traditions, the Rocky Mountains and fellow classmates.

Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer To Give Public Lecture At CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø

July 22, 2001

Former CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø professor of electrical engineering and Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer will return to the Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus next month to receive an honorary degree at August commencement and present a public lecture on his groundbreaking research in semiconductors, which helped to launch the modern Information Age. The lecture, titled "Heterostructures for Everything?" will be presented Friday, Aug. 10, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., in the Math 100 Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Deming Entrepreneurship Center Names New Assistant Director

July 18, 2001

Patricia Graff, a former project manager at Leopard Communications in Â鶹¹ÙÍø, has been named assistant director of the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, a joint program of the colleges of business and engineering at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. Her appointment was effective July 16.

Early Evolution Of The Universe Topic Of Live Show At Fiske Planetarium

July 18, 2001

Recent discoveries about the universe and its evolution will be the topic of "The Big Bang," a live show at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Aug. 3, at 8 p.m. CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor Andrew Hamilton will take the planetarium audience on a trip back in time to learn about the "big bang" and how the Milky Way and its stars were formed. The term big bang refers to the theory that the universe began at a single point in space and has been expanding ever since.

Form Of Matter Discovered In 1995 Shows Ability To Collapse, Explode

July 17, 2001

A group of Colorado physicists who made worldwide news in 1995 by creating a new form of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate have developed a new "flavor" of the matter that has been delivering surprise after surprise in the laboratory.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø MEP And MASP Summer Bridge Programs Offer Closing Events

July 17, 2001

Incoming freshmen participating in the summer bridge programs at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø are wrapping up their studies this week with some showcase events. Summer bridge programs help entering freshmen acquire skills needed for a more effective transition from high school to college. The Minority Arts and Sciences Program has 24 high school graduates enrolled at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø participating in its summer bridge program that began June 17 and will end on Friday, July 20.

'Success Institute' To Focus On Energy Issues As High School Students Prepare For Future Careers In Engineering And Technology

July 17, 2001

Editors: Media reporters and photographers wanting to attend the Success Institute can get an agenda by calling Carol Rowe at (303) 492-7426. It runs July 24-28 at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory of CU's College of Engineering and Applied Science. While their friends go swimming or clock in hours at summer jobs, some hard-working 10th and 12th graders from Denver, Â鶹¹ÙÍø and St. Vrain Valley schools will take time out to build solar-powered cars and learn about alternative energy sources at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's fourth annual "Engineering Success Institute."

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor Elected President Of Education Association

July 17, 2001

Robert L. Linn, distinguished professor of education at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø, has been named president-elect of the 23,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA). Linn will begin a one-year term as president in the spring of 2002 following incumbent president Andrew Porter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

NIH Training Grant Establishes 12 New Fellowships In Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

July 16, 2001

The Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Colorado has received a five-year, $1.4 million training grant from the National Institutes of Health, which will support graduate education and 12 new fellowships in the emerging, interdisciplinary field.

Chemical Engineering Professor Wins National Award For Excellence

July 15, 2001

Christopher Bowman, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø, has been selected to receive the 2001 Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The award, given to one leading researcher under the age of 36 each year, is the most important and prestigious award in the field of chemical engineering, according to chemical engineering department Chair Rob Davis. A $5,000 prize will be presented with the award at the annual AIChE meeting Nov. 5 in Reno, Nev.

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