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Nine undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder have received the prestigious Jacob Van Ek Award. The recipients were honored this month for outstanding academic achievement and contributions to the university and Boulder communities. The faculty members the students named as mentors also were recognized. The award was established in 1973 to honor Jacob Van Ek, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder from 1929 to 1959. Van Ek died in 1994 at the age of 97.

Professor Stein Sture, the Huber and Helen Croft Endowed Professor in the department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate School at CU-Boulder, Provost Phil DiStefano announced today. DiStefano said Sture's academic background, administrative experience and knowledge of CU-Boulder weighed in his favor as the top candidate for the position.

About 230 migrant and seasonal workers who have earned their general education diplomas, or GEDs, through the University of Colorado at Boulder's High School Equivalency Program will graduate on Friday, May 25. The ceremony, expected to draw about 1,000 family members, starts at 7 p.m. in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom on the CU-Boulder campus. Many of the graduates are from the High School Equivalency Program site in Brighton.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has signed an initial partnership agreement to participate in the design and construction of a 25-meter, far-infrared telescope that will be located in the Chilean desert to probe the distant galaxies, stellar nurseries and outer reaches of the solar system.

Two scholars who are conducting research that could lead to a greater understanding of how climate change affects insects and what role soil carbon plays in the reduction of greenhouse gases are this year's recipients of the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship for Diversity and Equity at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism program will mark its 10th anniversary this week during a two-day gathering that will include a keynote talk by Rocky Mountain News President and Publisher John Temple. "Environmental Journalism Moves Into the Future" is the theme of a symposium and celebration to be held on Friday, May 18, and Saturday, May 19. The event will include panel and roundtable discussions on pressing environmental issues and the future of environmental journalism. The current class of Scripps fellows will graduate from the program on Saturday.

Bob Moses, president and founder of the Algebra Project and a nationally recognized educator, will receive the first University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education John Dewey Prize for Progressive Education. Moses, the winner of a 1982 MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the "genius grant," will speak about his Algebra Project during a free, public lecture to be held Thursday, May 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.

A team of NASA and University of Colorado at Boulder scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. It was the first widespread Antarctic melting ever detected with NASA's QuikScat satellite and the most significant melt observed using satellites during the past three decades. Combined, the affected regions encompassed an area as big as California.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has scheduled aerial photography of the Boulder campus and selected sites within the city limits during the week of May 14. Flights will take place on the first clear morning between Wednesday, May 16, and Friday, May 18, beginning about 7 a.m. Photography should be completed before noon on the day finally selected for the aerial shooting. All flights will conform to current FAA flight regulations. For more information, contact Kevin Lee, assistant director of University Communications, at (303) 492-1874.

Undergraduate advertising students from the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication took home more honors than competitors from any other university at the New York One Club's annual One Show student competition. The event is the top international student advertising competition. Among 59 award winners and finalists announced last week, CU-Boulder had seven winning entries, more than any other graduate or undergraduate school in the show.