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Kathleen Tierney, a professor of sociology and the new director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will receive $400,000 over five years from the National Science Foundation to take part in a large-scale study of how organizations can use new information technology in responding to disasters.

CU-Boulder senior environmental engineering major Andrew Azman will be honored with a David Brower Youth Award today in Berkeley, Calif., for his work on the conversion of University of Colorado buses and trucks to biodiesel -- a vegetable oil based alternative fuel source that significantly lowers harmful emissions.

A public symposium on "Terror Versus Freedom: Can Homeland Security Coexist With Civil Liberties?" will be presented Oct. 8 by the University of Colorado at Boulder Graduate School. The event begins at 7 p.m. in University Memorial Center room 235 and will feature talks by four outstanding members of the CU-Boulder graduate faculty.

Lawrence F. Silverman, a retired University of Colorado administrator and professor of Russian history, formerly of Boulder, died on Sept. 10 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 81.

Editors: Review copies of the journal are available by contacting Steven Wingate at (303) 735-4669 or Steven.Wingate@Colorado.EDU . Joanne Greenberg, author of "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden," is among a stellar lineup of writers, artists and poets contributing to the University of Colorado at Boulder's new Western-focused literary journal, "divide."

The University of Colorado at Boulder received $250,436,110 in sponsored research awards for the 2003 fiscal year, setting a new campus record. NASA and its affiliates led the way for the federal government with $53,122,463 contributing to CU-Boulder's extensive space research. The National Science Foundation was close behind, awarding the campus $46,274,074. The Department of Health and Human Services awarded CU-Boulder nearly $38 million and the U.S. Department of Commerce awarded the campus just over $32 million.

In his third annual state of the campus address today, Chancellor Richard Byyny spoke of the accomplishments and challenges that confront the University of Colorado at Boulder. Specific Quality for Colorado initiatives were addressed and identified for funding this year. "Despite the monumental financial challenges that the university faced in the past 18 months, its faculty and students, the creative engine of the campus, never stopped what they do best," Byyny said. "They continued to pursue new knowledge."

The work of two renowned artists and teachers at Mexico's preeminent school of fine arts goes on display Sept. 24 at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Norlin Library. Pieces by Arturo Miranda Videgaray and Antonio Salazar Banuelos will be featured in the library's third floor northwest gallery until Oct. 30. The display is curated by CU-Boulder fine arts Professor George Rivera, who will host an opening reception and gallery talk Sept. 24 at 5 p.m. in the Norlin Library, fifth-floor Center for British Studies room.

A Roman emperor's most ambitious and personal building project will be uncovered and analyzed by a team of students and scholars from the University of Colorado at Boulder as part of a new five-year excavation and field school in Italy.

For the first time in 10 years, energy and water usage declined significantly last year at the University of Colorado at Boulder campus thanks to efforts by staff, students and projects implemented by facilities managers.