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In 1945 Brooke Wunnicke graduated from the CU-Boulder School of Law. Six books and 54 years of service later, Wunnicke was recognized for her contributions to legal services in Colorado at the Colorado Bar AssociationÂ’s 101st Annual Convention held in Vail on Saturday, Sept. 25. Wunnicke received the CBAÂ’s highest honor, the Award of Merit. "I am humbled, proud and my colleagues at the Bar have given me great joy," said Wunnicke.

When CU-Boulder Professor Emeritus Albert Bartlett first delivered his celebrated lecture on "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" to a group of CU students on Sept. 19, 1969, the world population was close to 3.7 billion. On Oct. 12, the United Nations projects that the world population will reach 6 billion. Bartlett, an award-winning University of Colorado at Boulder physics professor, now has marked the 30th anniversary of his lecture. He delivered the talk for the 1,325th time near Jamestown, Colo., on Sept. 19 to the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Sierra Club.

University of Colorado at Boulder professors Roger Bilham and G. Barney Ellison have been awarded prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for 1999. The CU-Boulder professors, chosen from among 2,785 applicants, join 177 American and Canadian Fellows each receiving an average $33,866. Professor Bilham, a seismologist who in the past has traveled to the Himalayas to research the mountain rangeÂ’s seismic risk, is spending the next year studying earthquakes and their rising urban risk.

Editors: CU-Boulder has joined with more than 1,200 colleges and universities in the national College is Possible campaign, sponsored by the Coalition of America's Colleges and Universities. The goal of the campaign is to enhance public knowledge about financing college education. The following is one in a series of articles designed to provide information about options and sources of assistance for student aid.

Award-winning author and CU-Boulder Professor Lucia Berlin will give a reading from her newest book, "Where I Live Now," on Friday, Oct. 1 at the Koenig Alumni Center. Berlin wrote five books from 1983 to 1993, winning awards for two of them. Her 1991 effort, "Homesick," received the American Book Award and "Phantom Pain" was named one of the 10 best books of 1984 by the San Francisco Chronicle. She also was a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has won the Jack London Short Story Award.

More than 100 students, staff, administrators, deans and faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder gathered to discuss strategies for enhancing the campus environment at the Chancellor's Retreat on Community, held Sept. 22 at the University Club. "This is what a university is supposed to be about—learning about different points of view and talking with people you don't know to find ways to create a community that is supportive and enriching," said Chancellor Byyny.

Editors: "Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West" is available from the University of New Mexico Press (1-800-249-7737), and will be in bookstores in October. For a review copy call Peter Moulson (505) 277-7553, or e-mail: peterm@unm.edu . For four decades the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, located 16 miles northwest of downtown Denver, was a key facility in the United States nuclear weapons race.

Director of CU-BoulderÂ’s Natural Resources Law Center Gary Bryner will explore the challenges Americans face in preserving national parks, wild lands and biodiversity for future generations as part of the Fall ChancellorÂ’s Community Lecture series on Wednesday, Oct. 6. Bryner is the former director of the Public Policy Program at Brigham Young University and also served as the Natural Resources Law CenterÂ’s El Paso Energy Corporation Law Fellow in 1997, studying issues of mineral development in federally protected areas.

Mark Twain — the humorist, river boat captain, newspaper reporter, logger and writer — spent several years trudging around the West, absorbing experiences that would one day surface in his famous stories and books. Those experiences will be one of the topics covered by Leland Krauth, associate professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, during his talk "A Talent for Posturing: Mark Twain in the West," on Oct. 5 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in room 235 of the University Memorial Center.

Joseph F. Becelia, a career member of the United States Foreign Service, has replaced Mary Ann Casey as Diplomat in Residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and will spend the next year lecturing, teaching and reaching out to the public about foreign policy. The U.S. Department of State has placed Becelia -- one of only eight nationally dispersed Diplomats in Residence -- at CU-Boulder for the 1999-2000 school year to work with students and others interested in foreign affairs.