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Distinguished Professor Carl E. Wieman of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder has been appointed one of 13 Visiting Scholars for 1999-2000 by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Each of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars will travel to about eight other U.S. colleges and universities during the academic year, spending two days on each campus. During each visit the scholar is expected to meet with undergraduates in informal settings, to participate in classroom lectures and seminars and to make one major address open to the entire academic community.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder may have a record number of students this fall, which is increasing the demand for on-campus housing. Despite the increase, the universityÂ’s housing department remains cautiously optimistic that most freshmen will be accommodated, if not at the start of the semester then within a week or two. Classes begin Aug. 23. Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder has 22 residence halls scattered around the campus and at Williams Village. Together they provide space for close to 6,000 students, with freshmen getting first priority.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder expects to enroll a record number of students this fall – about 25,800 – according to current estimates. If those figures hold, fall 1999 enrollment will be about 650 students higher than fall 1998 and more than 200 ahead of the previous high enrollment of 25,571 in 1991.

Few people are looking forward to the start of the new school year at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder so much as Artis Selby -- on Aug. 16 she moves into a house with three student girlfriends and a week later itÂ’s back to work. Selby plans to pick up on last yearÂ’s freshman studies, working toward a four-year degree, which will put her in line for a further three years at a physical therapy school, possibly one in Denver.

The chancellor of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder and Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s BugMobile officially kicked off the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ in Residence community education program in Chaffee County on Friday, Aug. 13. Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny outlined the details of the innovative educational program at a luncheon he hosted for 65 business, education and community leaders at the Mt. Princeton Conference Center. Byyny noted that Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ in Residence will bring a wide range of educational programs and special events to Buena Vista, Salida and Poncha Springs throughout the coming year.

"Words to Stir the Soul: Readings from the American West," will be hosted by the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder Center of the American West at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31, in the Old Main Chapel on the Boulder campus. The program also will be held, with different readers and reading selections, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 3, at the LoDo Tattered Cover Bookstore at 1628 16th St. in Denver. Both programs are free and open to the public.

Key elements of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder Master Plan will be described to campus and community members in an open house on Wednesday, Aug. 18, hosted by Paul Tabolt, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder's vice chancellor for administration, and the Department of Facilities Management.

He died 22 years ago this month and yet Elvis Presley is as popular in death as he was in life. Since his death, Elvis has risen from pop idol to religious icon. People make pilgrimages to his house in Memphis. They build shrines to him in their homes, covet his pictures, paintings and figurines -- actions suggesting a spiritual figure of importance for many people.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder has published a new book on the life and contributions of former Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ president and civil engineering professor Roland Rautenstraus. "RAUT: Teacher, Leader, Engineer," by Richard Weingardt, traces the life of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's 12th president from his roots as a minister's son growing up in small town Nebraska and Kansas to his tremendous impact on the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ and on the state, through its transportation and educational systems, and land-use policies.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-BoulderÂ’s Office of Community Relations and the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Bookstore joined forces last spring to collect used textbooks from Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ students as they prepared to leave campus for the summer. At the end of each semester, students have the option of selling their textbooks back to the bookstore, although many books do not meet the criteria for "buy back." At the end of the spring ‘99 semester, however, more than 1,500 books fell into that category.