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Farrand Field will be closed for one year and several basketball courts and athletic fields will be installed or upgraded this summer as $5.7 million in student-funded improvements begin at the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. Recreation Services officials will break ground at Farrand Field May 30 at 12:30 p.m. to signal the start of four campus projects.

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While rising interest rates and increased inventory of houses for sale indicate a cooling of the residential real estate market, the housing market has not experienced a speculative investment bubble that is about to burst, according to Thomas Thibodeau, the Global Real Estate Capital Markets Chair at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

The Alumni College at the University of Colorado at Boulder will examine issues surrounding the topic "Liberty, Security and Repression in Wartime, 1914 to present" in three sessions June 15-17. The three sessions, to meet in various classrooms throughout campus, will address World War I and World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam and the war on terror. The college will begin June 15 at 5 p.m. with a reception and registration at the Boulderado Hotel, 2115 13th St., in downtown Boulder.

A physics education Web site launched by Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, distinguished professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has won two international awards as an exemplary online resource.

A United Nations program that encourages the exchange of scholars and ideas between developing countries and the United States has granted a named professorship to University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Meg Moritz. Moritz will become the university's UNESCO Chair on July 1. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, established in 1945 to promote international cooperation among nearly 200 member states in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.

Seven 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.

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Nine boys and girls from Denver high schools will team up to create three-dimensional animated movie trailers starting June 1 as part of the University of Colorado at Boulder's DigitalCUrrents program. The students, from Thomas Jefferson and Denver North High Schools, will attend the DigitalCUrrents Summer Day Camp hosted by CU-Boulder and the Denver Public Schools' Computer Magnet Program from June 1 to June 23.

Five journalists have been selected as 2006-07 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The fellowships are hosted by the Center for Environmental Journalism and funded through a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The nine-month program offers mid-career journalists an opportunity to deepen their understanding of environmental issues and policy through coursework, seminars and field trips in the region. Following are the new Ted Scripps Fellows: