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Three years after a head injury nearly left her paralyzed, University of Colorado at Boulder senior Alexis St. Jean will graduate on Friday, May 11, with a bachelor's degree in environmental design-design studies.

For 30 years University of Colorado at Boulder professors have introduced Colorado children to the exciting world of science as CU Wizards by imploding 55-gallon drums, popping balloons with lasers and cooking eggs without heat. On Saturday, May 19, CU-Boulder will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the program following the scheduled CU Wizards show "Waves That Changed the World" at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30.

Highlighting the best teachers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, students have selected four faculty members to receive the 2007 Teaching Recognition Awards. The recipients are senior instructors Sally Elliot, Janet DeGrazia, Brett King and Ray MacFee. Every spring since 1962 students have voted for outstanding teachers in the only CU-Boulder faculty awards program chosen and administered by undergraduate students. The program is conducted by the Herd, the student arm of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association, and is based on student nominations and online voting.

Three years after a head injury nearly left her paralyzed, University of Colorado at Boulder senior Alexis St. Jean will graduate on Friday, May 11, with a bachelor's degree in environmental design-design studies. When St. Jean came to Colorado from Georgia to start college at CU-Boulder in 2001, she took full advantage of the outdoor activities in Colorado, including snowboarding.

The ATLAS Institute's Assessment and Research Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder is a lead institution in a newly formed national alliance that will engage underrepresented minority students in computing. The Empowering Leadership Alliance is supported by a $2 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are among a group of U.S. innovators who traveled to France in early May to share their expertise with French researchers who want to develop virtual speech and language therapists.

Sixteen renewable energy and sustainability research projects involving faculty and students at the University of Colorado at Boulder and scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been selected for funding beginning this summer.

For the first time, seniors graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder can sign a pledge vowing to be socially and environmentally responsible citizens of the world they will enter after receiving their degrees on May 11. Graduates who sign the pledge will be recognized during the ceremony by the green cords they will be wearing over their graduation gowns.

A University of Colorado at Boulder researcher has won a $50,000 federal seed grant for work that could one day lead to the development of clinically useful and less invasive ways of studying the brain activity of children who wear implanted hearing devices. Such research could help doctors and researchers gain a greater understanding of how children acquire hearing and language skills.

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Norman Pace has been awarded the 2007 Abbott-American Society for Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award, the society's highest honor, for his groundbreaking research in microbial ecology.