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Executives from across the country are learning cutting-edge business strategies at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-BoulderÂ’s Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Executive Development in Residence program, taking place through Aug. 4 at the College of Business. Earl Frasier is finding material covered in the CEDIR course "Leading and Managing in Changing Times" applies directly to his role as regional customer service manager at Sun Microsystems.

Eleven alumni of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder have begun three-year terms on the Alumni AssociationÂ’s board of directors this month. The board members, elected from an active pool of nominees, oversee Alumni Association programs that serve approximately 200,000 alumni. Members heading the national board for 2000-01 are chair Lorin Chevalier of Littleton, chair-elect Dave Karpel of Denver and treasurer Al Sanders of Houston. They lead the 51-member board, which includes the following Coloradans as new members:

A partially submerged city on the Mediterranean Sea in present-day Turkey has yielded a second underwater church, leading researchers to believe the settlement was a magnet for pilgrims traveling to and from the Holy Land nearly 2,000 years ago.

Kristi S. Anseth, an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder, has been named one of 18 faculty members nationwide to receive a prestigious 2000 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Each $60,000 award is designed to support an outstanding young faculty member in the early stages of his or her academic career. "This award will assist these outstanding scientists to continue their high level of accomplishment in education and research, " according to the New York-based Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.

General Electric has donated almost $74,000 to the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder as part of the GE Fund's Corporate Alumni Program, Chancellor Richard Byyny announced today. General Electric employees, retirees and directors, who are alumni of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder, participate in the program each year. The GE Fund matches alumni donations dollar for dollar.

Editors: Photographs of musicians are available in print and digital versions by calling (303) 492-4007. A complete schedule of events is posted at www.centerwest.org/music . Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tish Hinojosa and the Hot Club of Cowtown will be among the musicians giving free performances on the lawn of Boulder's historic Chautauqua Park on Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of a conference titled "Listening to the West: Music in the Soul of a Region."

The great American physicist Richard FeynmanÂ’s genius for simplifying quantum mechanics through a set of simple pictures will come to life during a July 24 lecture at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder. Steven Girvin, distinguished physics professor at Indiana University at Bloomington and a co-founder and participating faculty member of a summer physics institute at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder, will present the lecture "Mr. FeynmanÂ’s Quantum Mechanics: A Field Guide for Curious Characters" at 7:30 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20 on the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder campus.

The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Heritage Center is celebrating the arrival of a rare lunar specimen on campus this spring with a special "Moon Madness" Activity Day for families on Sunday, July 16, from 1 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. Activities will include a "Kids in Space" show at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Fiske Planetarium and a walk through Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Scale Model Solar System guided by Professor Mike Shull of the astrophysical and planetary science department, followed by a program of "hands-on" activities at the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Heritage Center. While at the Heritage Center, participants will be able to view the moon rock.

A small layer of dust suspended several feet above the moonÂ’s surface that was first photographed by the Lunar Surveyor spacecraft in the 1960s and later observed by Apollo astronauts has been a puzzle to some planetary scientists. But a University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder research team is on the verge of explaining the odd dust phenomenon, which also may occur on asteroids, the rings of planets and even around spacecraft.

Two new programs at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder designed to support the campusÂ’s Building Community initiative, encourage networking and increase staff awareness of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder's role in the four-campus system will begin in September. An intensive awareness-building program, called Boulder Campus Perspective, was piloted last spring and will consist of six half-day sessions scheduled from September through December. A companion program, called University Perspective, is being launched as a pilot this fall to complement the Boulder Campus Perspective.