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An array of cultural performers - from belly dancers to mariachi musicians - and international booths offering gastronomic delicacies from around the globe will be among the featured attractions at the 15th annual International Festival at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This year's festival, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, April 14, in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center, or UMC.

University of Colorado at Boulder chemistry and biochemistry department Professor Margaret Tolbert has been awarded the 2007 Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research given by the university. Tolbert was honored for her contributions to understanding the chemistry and climate of planetary atmospheres, including past and present Earth. She also was cited for her teaching and research efforts with undergraduates and graduate students, 15 of whom have won prestigious NASA and Environmental Protection Agency fellowships in recent years.

The West African Highlife Ensemble, the only academic group in the country to specialize in Ghana's unique musical genre, will perform this month in its annual concert at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The seventh annual African Highlife Concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at Macky Auditorium.

Jeff Bzdelik has been named the 17th men's basketball head coach for the University of Colorado men's basketball program, Athletic Director Mike Bohn announced Wednesday morning during a press conference at the University Memorial Center on the CU-Boulder campus. To hear the press conference in its entirety, visit the broadcast section of the News Center Web site at www.colorado.edu/news/broadcast/ to access an MP3 audio recording of the press conference.

The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice in winter 2007 was the second lowest on satellite record, narrowly missing the 2006 record, according to a team of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers.

A master's degree project by a University of Colorado at Boulder journalism student uncovered a morass of bureaucratic roadblocks faced by injured Iraq War soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center six months before similar stories broke in the national press. Kelly Kennedy, now an Army Times reporter, began compiling information for her master's thesis last summer, focusing on inadequate treatment and other health care issues faced by military service members hospitalized at Walter Reed in Washington, D.C.

Seven University of Colorado at Boulder graduate specialty programs were ranked in the top 25 nationally in the new but limited U.S. News & World Report annual graduate school rankings.

University of Michigan Professor Phil Deloria will lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 16 as part of a Center of the American West series aimed at improving understanding between Indians and non-Indians. The talk, "Crossing the (Indian) Color Line: A Family Memoir," is part of the Modern Indian Identity lecture series and is free and open to the public. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 250 on the Boulder campus.

The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the Wolf Law Building on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus a gold rating, one of the nation's highest for green building design. The recently completed 180,000-square-foot building earned the gold rating under the Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, or LEED. David Getches, dean of the University of Colorado Law School, said it was the first publicly supported law school in the nation to "get gold."

New results from the largest federally funded bipolar study ever conducted show that patients who receive psychotherapy in addition to medication get better faster from bipolar disorder's debilitating depression and stay better longer, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher involved in the study.