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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. - The University of Colorado Board of Regents announced today that Elizabeth "Betsy" Hoffman, 53, has been named the 20th president of the University of Colorado. Hoffman, currently Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), will take over CU's top post on Sept. 1.

After hearing a fellow CU-Boulder classmate present a speech about broadcast journalism in a public speaking class, Sierra Nelson knew it was the career for her. "IÂ’ve always loved writing, and broadcast journalism is a culmination of all of the things that I like to do," said Nelson, a 22-year-old from Littleton.

Editors: The next harvest will take place on Aug. 8 at 9 a.m. outside of the north entrance of Regent Hall. Photographers are welcome to attend. Nestled among the stately buildings on campus, rows of vegetables that compose the CU-Boulder campus garden project have been weeded and watered throughout the summer by volunteers hoping for a bumper crop to benefit Boulder County residents in need.

Colorado nature photographer and local publisher John Fielder will give the commencement address at the University of Colorado at Boulder summer commencement ceremony Saturday, Aug. 12, at 8:30 a.m. in Norlin Quadrangle. CU-Boulder will confer 1,008 degrees, including 696 bachelorÂ’s degrees, 174 masterÂ’s and 138 doctoral degrees. The summer ceremony, which is much smaller than the spring and winter ceremonies, will last about two hours and include the reading of all the graduatesÂ’ names.

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the best celestial treats of the year, will be visible in night skies throughout Colorado in early August. The meteors will decorate the night sky Aug. 10 – 14, peaking on Aug. 12 when as many as 50 meteors per hour could be visible, according to experts at the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries will celebrate the life of Leo Walter Cabell Jr., retired associate director of the University Libraries and assistant professor emeritus on Monday, Aug. 7, at 3 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the Boulder campus. The service is open to the public and marks the one-year anniversary of his death. Memories, anecdotes and photos submitted no later than Thursday, Aug. 3, will be compiled for a memory book. Items may be sent to the Norlin Library Dean's Office, N210C, Campus Box 184, Boulder, CO 80309-0184.

Editors: For more information about events involving the Canebearer and Outstanding Senior Woman reunion, contact Nancy Miller or Kay Oltmans at the CU Heritage Center at (303) 492-6329. Canebearers and Outstanding Senior Women from past University of Colorado at Boulder graduating classes will gather during the university summer commencement for a reunion.

Executives from across the country are learning cutting-edge business strategies at CU-BoulderÂ’s Colorado Executive Development in Residence program, taking place through Aug. 4 at the College of Business. Earl Frasier is finding material covered in the CEDIR course "Leading and Managing in Changing Times" applies directly to his role as regional customer service manager at Sun Microsystems.

Eleven alumni of the University of Colorado at Boulder have begun three-year terms on the Alumni AssociationÂ’s board of directors this month. The board members, elected from an active pool of nominees, oversee Alumni Association programs that serve approximately 200,000 alumni. Members heading the national board for 2000-01 are chair Lorin Chevalier of Littleton, chair-elect Dave Karpel of Denver and treasurer Al Sanders of Houston. They lead the 51-member board, which includes the following Coloradans as new members:

A partially submerged city on the Mediterranean Sea in present-day Turkey has yielded a second underwater church, leading researchers to believe the settlement was a magnet for pilgrims traveling to and from the Holy Land nearly 2,000 years ago.