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Eight University of Colorado at Boulder students have been offered prestigious Fulbright scholarships to study overseas during the 2006 academic year, a record for the university. CU-Boulder students have won a total of 95 Fulbright scholarships since 1977, but never eight in the same year, according to Larry Bell, director of CU-BoulderÂ’s Office of International Education.

A small grounds shed used by the Housing Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder to store lawn mowers, small tractors, irrigation equipment and other grounds maintenance equipment was destroyed by fire this afternoon. No one was injured in the fire, however one member of the Housing Department staff is under observation for signs of possible smoke inhalation. The fire was extinguished by the Boulder Fire Department.

Phil DiStefano, former interim chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, was honored this week by the Boulder City Council "for playing a key role in strengthening the relationship between the university and the city." Mayor Mark Ruzzin and the council approved a resolution that also saluted DiStefano for 32 years "of distinguished teaching, scholarship and leadership" and for "contributing greatly to making Boulder a first-rate community."

Two-time Grammy and two-time Emmy nominee Bill Mooney of Boulder will perform an original one-man show as famed frontier showman William F. Cody in "Tonight! Buffalo Bill!" Aug. 14 at Chautauqua Auditorium. The show, written by Mooney especially for the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. The auditorium is located in Chautauqua Park at Baseline Road and Ninth Street in Boulder. Tickets are $10 at the door and $7 for Colorado Chautauqua Association members.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $2.2 million from NASA for initial studies on four instrument packages designed to better understand how the sun interacts with EarthÂ’s radiation environment.

Using ultrafast lasers, a team of University of Colorado at Boulder and JILA scientists has developed a novel method to observe the motion of atoms during chemical reactions, opening up new possibilities for detailed understanding of how chemical bonds are made and broken.

A chemistry experiment in the Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building at the University of Colorado at Boulder went awry at about 2 p.m. today and caused a chemical reaction resulting in a small fire but no injuries occurred. Five undergraduate students were conducting a standard experiment underneath a fume hood when too much hydrogen gas apparently was produced, CU Police said. There was a chemical reaction and subsequent small fire that the students put out with a fire extinguisher. Damage was limited to the fume hood and was minor.

A growing program at the University of Colorado at Boulder is working to combat an impending crisis brought on by a shrinking pool of new K-12 science teachers. Known as the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics-Teacher Preparation project, it involves a collaboration between the School of Education and six campus science departments.

The annual Perseid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky throughout Colorado in early August, according to experts at the University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Fiske Planetarium. The natural nighttime light show will peak on Aug. 12, but will be less spectacular this year because of a nearly full moon, according to Doug Duncan, director of CU-BoulderÂ’s Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory.

A power lunch with Warren Buffett recently sold for $620,100 in an eBay auction to benefit charity. Three students from the University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Leeds School of Business are among a group of 40 students who will meet with the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman and chief executive officer this month for a much lower cost: free.