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Seven undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder have received the prestigious Jacob Van Ek Award. The recipients were honored this month for outstanding academic achievement and contributions to the university and Boulder communities. The faculty members the students named as mentors also were recognized. The award was established in 1973 to honor Jacob Van Ek, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder from 1929 to 1959. Van Ek died in 1994 at the age of 97.

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Nine boys and girls from Denver high schools will team up to create three-dimensional animated movie trailers starting June 1 as part of the University of Colorado at Boulder's DigitalCUrrents program. The students, from Thomas Jefferson and Denver North High Schools, will attend the DigitalCUrrents Summer Day Camp hosted by CU-Boulder and the Denver Public Schools' Computer Magnet Program from June 1 to June 23.

Five journalists have been selected as 2006-07 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The fellowships are hosted by the Center for Environmental Journalism and funded through a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The nine-month program offers mid-career journalists an opportunity to deepen their understanding of environmental issues and policy through coursework, seminars and field trips in the region. Following are the new Ted Scripps Fellows:

Rebecca Watson, former assistant secretary for land and minerals management at the U.S. Department of the Interior, will lecture on "Current Administration Energy Policies" at Chautauqua Park in Boulder on Monday, May 22. Her talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House and is part of the summer lecture series of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Admission is $3 for the general public, $1 for Chautauqua members.

NEWS TIP SHEET Unless the United States addresses the economic disparity that exists with Mexico we will fail to stop the flow of illegal workers into the country no matter which immigration reform law is passed, according to Clare Huntington, University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor of law.

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering plants and their ancestors.

MEDIA ADVISORY The findings of a University of Colorado at Boulder investigative committee charged with reviewing allegations of research misconduct against ethnic studies Professor Ward Churchill will be presented today in a news conference.

University of Colorado at Boulder economics Professor Robert McNown has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for a project to help train and better equip Vietnamese economists. McNown will be in Vietnam from September through January to teach econometrics at Hanoi National Economics University. Econometrics is the statistical modeling of economic phenomena, such as growth or recession.

Editors: Enclosed are the names of the degree candidates from your area. This list was accurate as of May 11 but is subject to final grade reports. Local students were among the 5,610 graduates who received degrees May 12 during spring commencement ceremonies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.