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A ceremony to mark the opening of Bear Creek Apartments at Williams Village, the new student housing complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will be held Aug. 15 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Representatives from CU-Boulder, the CU Foundation and American Campus Communities will kick off the event. A special tribute to the Williams family, which donated the land to the university in the early 1960s, also is planned. A ribbon-cutting and tours of the building will follow.

The Safe Communities-Safe Schools Initiative, Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar, Professor Delbert Elliott, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at CU-Boulder (Violence Prevention Center), The Colorado Trust and the Colorado School Districts Self Insurance Pool today announced four regional training sessions to be held in October 2003. The free sessions will provide practical tools for school administrators and school resource officers to develop safe school plans, and information and guidance on implementing Colorado's school safety laws.

Contractors building the new addition to the east side of Folsom Field will conduct a test of a new steam line Tuesday, Aug. 5, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The system is being tested to ensure that the steam supply for heating the new addition to the stadium functions properly and to test the safety of the new supply line, according to Steven Hecht, project manager for CU's Department of Facilities Management. The building is scheduled for occupancy Sept. 1.

The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event, will be visible in night skies throughout Colorado in early August. The natural fireworks will be most visible in areas away from city lights and will peak before dawn in the early morning hours of Aug. 13, according to experts at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium. Viewing is best where the sky is darkest. People also should avoid using binoculars and telescopes, which narrow the field of vision, according to Francisco Salas, program supervisor at CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium.

NEWS TIP SHEET K-12 teachers, university faculty and researchers from around the United States will gather at CU-Boulder from Aug. 3 through Aug. 5 for the 2003 meeting of the Digital Library for Earth System Education. Hosted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, the meeting will be held in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center on the Boulder campus. The meeting is closed to the public, but media are encouraged to attend.

For the second time in three years, a University of Colorado at Boulder professor has been selected to receive the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications. Kristi Anseth, CU-Boulder professor of chemical and biological engineering and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute assistant investigator, will receive the national award and $5,000 prize at the annual AIChE meeting Nov. 16-21 in San Francisco.

A dean and a group of prominent University of Colorado at Boulder alumni hope more than a thousand cyclists will sign up for pledge rides during a new fall fund-raiser to benefit students at the university's College of Arts and Sciences. The Buffalo Bicycle Classic will be held Sept. 7 from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pledge-ride routes of 32, 65 and 100 miles will each begin and end near Folsom Field on the CU-Boulder campus. Proceeds raised by bikers will support student scholarships, research and creative projects.

Editor's Note: Student teams from throughout Colorado will demonstrate their payloads at the final Launch Readiness Review set for Friday, Aug. 1, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Discovery Learning Center, located on the southwest corner of Colorado Avenue and Regent Drive in Boulder. The review is not open to the public, but reporters and photographers are welcome to attend.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has received a four-year, $2 million Initiative for Minority Student Development grant from the National Institutes of Health to increase student diversity in bioscience fields on campus.

Gabriel Meraz, a senior honors student at Skyview High School in Thornton, is this year's recipient of the CU Leadership, Excellence, Achievement and Diversity scholarship awarded by the Parents Association at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The scholarship consists of $10,000 divided into four annual supplements of $2,500. The award was presented to Meraz at a July 18 banquet for high school students who successfully completed the CU-Boulder Pre-Collegiate Development Summer Residential Program.