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Seven outstanding members of the University of Colorado at Boulder community will be honored May 7 during the CU-Boulder Alumni Association's 78th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony.

Two University of Colorado at Boulder faculty members have joined such luminaries as U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Academy Award-winning filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen and blues guitarist B.B. King in the 2008 class of fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A University of Colorado at Boulder student whose family fled religious persecution in Iran in the 1990s has been named the recipient of a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship awarded nationally to outstanding undergraduate sophomores and juniors.

The University of Colorado at Boulder today announced that it discovered three computers in the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies were compromised and that one of the computers contains private data (i.e. names, Social Security numbers, addresses, grades) of approximately 9,000 students and approximately 500 instructors.

Jewelry samples from an outstanding collection of antique Southwest American Indian jewelry stored in vaults at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Museum of Natural History will be on display to the public in downtown Boulder May 2 and May 3.

Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, according to a new research commentary by University of Colorado and NOAA researchers appearing in the April 25 issue of Science.

University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson and his wife, Val, are inviting the campus and Boulder community to attend an April 30 open house luncheon to learn more about the importance of foster parenting and to be part of a new university scholarship program supporting college-bound students exiting the foster care system.

A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could modify climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and even amplify Antarctic warming, according to scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

Billy Kardys, lead chef for the University of Colorado at Boulder's Piazanos café, says the 2,000 students who visit the café daily won't have sea bass on the menu anytime soon, but a bass dish he created garnered him first prize in a regional culinary challenge for campus chefs.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education a $2.8 million grant that will allow graduate students to collaborate with Boulder Valley School District teachers to "bring science out of the box" and inspire young students to follow in their footsteps toward science careers.