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The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law will hold its 20th Annual Alumni Awards Banquet on May 5 at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. The ceremony, which will honor alumni for "distinguished achievement," begins with dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by the presentation of awards an hour later. Dean Hal Bruff will open the program and Don P. Brown, Jr. ('89), chair of the Law Alumni Board, will be the master of ceremonies. Folllowing are this year's recipients:

James Barron, a junior at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been honored with the 2001-2002 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Barron currently holds a 3.94 GPA as a double major in physics and math, and plans to graduate in May 2002 and then attend graduate school. Barron also is performing high-energy physics research with Professor Uriel Nauenberg in the physics department. The $7,500 award is one of 302 granted to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from across the nation and Puerto Rico, and one of five from within Colorado.

Editors: Richard Fuld will be available for interviews. Contact Susan Kelley, (303) 492-2823, or Lori Call, (303) 492-0786, to arrange. The chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers Inc., an alumnus of the CU-Boulder College of Business, will deliver the commencement address at the college's Graduate School of Business recognition ceremony on Friday, May 11. Richard S. Fuld, chairman and CEO of the global investment bank, will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium on the Boulder campus.

A landscaping layout tool based on global positioning system technology, a vending machine that develops and prints photos and a furniture and interior design store targeted at college students are among the eight business ideas that may qualify to compete for $5,000 on May 2. Â鶹ÒùÔº who created these plans and others will participate in the Spring 2001 Undergraduate Business Plan Competition at the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Business.

Three important events will mark the graduation of 167 students on May 11 at the University of Colorado School of Law commencement. The endowment of the J.J. Witt Memorial Law Scholarship will be announced; Gail Klapper will receive the Honorary Order of the Coif; and Jim Hightower, a man profiled on the CBS news show "60 Minutes" and listed by the National Journal as one of the 150 individuals "who make a difference," will give the keynote address.

More than 300 Chicano, Latino and black high school students from the Boulder Valley School District will gather at the University of Colorado at Boulder for the fourth annual Latino Youth Conference on Wednesday, May 2. The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University Memorial Center. Participating schools include Arapahoe Ridge, Boulder High, Broomfield High, Centaurus High, Fairview High, Monarch High, Nederland High and New Vista High.

University of Colorado at Boulder history Professor Robert Schulzinger will give a public talk Wednesday, May 9, at 7 p.m., about the opportunities and challenges of Vietnam's integration into the global market. Schulzinger's talk, "The United States and Vietnam Today: Globalization on Trial," is free and open to the public and is part of the Chancellor's Community Lecture Series. The talk will be in the Chapel at The Academy building at 970 Aurora Ave. in Boulder.

Jim Gray, NBC sports reporter and CU-Boulder alumnus, will be the keynote speaker at the commencement ceremony for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication on May 10 at 3 p.m. in Macky Auditorium.

A team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has observed the first phases of planetary growth by confirming that tiny particles orbiting in dusty disks surrounding several young sun-like stars in the Orion Nebula are clumping together and growing.

When University of Colorado at Boulder researchers came out with a study in 1998 showing older adults who exercise regularly burn more calories at rest than their sedentary counterparts, it was good news for the active older generation. Now comes some not so good news.