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Richard Perdue, professor of tourism management at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's College of Business, has been elected to the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. Membership in the prestigious academy is limited to 75 scholars worldwide and is based on a candidate's career research achievements. Upon election, Perdue was chosen to serve a two-year term as secretary of the academy.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's premier summer theatrical program, has announced it will be a sponsor for CU Program Council spring events including the 2001 Trivia Bowl. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival logo will appear on all Program Council ads and promotions, as well as at the 2001 Trivia Odyssey April 2-6.

The CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Parents Association will honor 17 faculty and staff members April 7 at the Koenig Alumni Center. All the honorees were nominated by CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø undergraduate students for having a significant impact on the students' lives. The CU Parents Association and the Division of Student Affairs are hosting a luncheon for the honored staff and faculty members as well as the nominating students and their parents. Trophies will be presented to all the awardees.

The impending crash of Russia's Mir Space Station should be of little worry to Earthlings as it heads for an expected fiery ending in the southern Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø aerospace engineering Professor Robert Culp.

Editors: Reporters are welcome to attend the teacher workshops on China, April 11, and Japan, April 24. The China workshop will be at the Regal Harvest House and the Japan workshop meets at the Marriott, both in Â鶹¹ÙÍø. For more information call Monteith Mitchell, (303) 492-5526.

The CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Alumni Association will present eight members of the university community with its highest honors during the 71st annual Alumni Awards on May 8. The awards ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. in Old Main and is free and open to the public.

A three dimensional, computerized human face that converses with hearing-impaired children using state-of-the-art speech recognition and speech generation technologies is showing students how to understand and produce spoken language. Developed with a three-year, $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant, the computer project could transform the way language is taught to hearing-impaired children, said University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor Ron Cole.

On Saturday, March 17, Nikolay Malyshev, head of Russia's federal program on the application of information technologies to education, will tour high-tech classrooms at EduQuest, 1059 N. Yosemite St., Building 758, from noon to 2 p.m. on the site of the former Lowry Air Force Base.

The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will present a mock divorce trial between the rural and urban West on Sunday, March 25, in Denver. The program, sponsored by Common Ground - The Urban/Rural Connection, will be held from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave. in Denver. It is free and open to the public.

Lori Goodman has been appointed special scholars adviser at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø, a new position created to enhance student preparation in competing for well-known national or international scholarships such as the Rhodes, Truman, Goldwater or Marshall. The appointment was made by Michael Grant, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, and approved by CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Chancellor Richard Byyny.