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"Eric reached a milestone recently. He is no longer in intensive care. He remains in the hospital, letting his skin grafts heal and working on his rehabilitation. "Eric is no longer connected to any tubes. He is on a regular diet and even ate turkey on Thanksgiving Day. "Eric is still on a lot of medications, but can now take them orally instead of intravenously or through a feeding tube." NOTE:

Eighteen University of Colorado at Boulder faculty have been awarded prestigious Faculty Fellowships for the 2005-'06 academic year for research ranging from black holes and natural hazards to Japanese gender geography.

The University of Colorado at Boulder announced the appointment today of long-time athletics administrator Jack Lengyel as interim athletics director at CU-Boulder, effective Dec. 1. Lengyel is expected to serve for a six-month period during which the campus will conduct a national search for the permanent position, said Provost Phil DiStefano. His salary as interim athletics director will be $16,000 per month.

A University of Colorado at Boulder engineering professor may have found the key to developing more accurate and efficient propulsion systems by studying the formation of vortex rings, such as those made by squid and jellyfish to move themselves underwater.

The creative ingenuity of engineering students at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be on display Saturday, Dec. 4, when nearly 60 student inventions will be demonstrated to the public at the ITLL Fall Design Expo. The student inventions range from fun to functional, including a Rube Goldberg ice cream sundae-maker, a teeter-totter water pump and a car windshield that automatically turns opaque when the engine is turned off.

"We are thankful for so much this Thanksgiving. Eric continues to improve. The health care team has been fantastic. Our extended family and our friends are watching out for all of our non-medical needs. "Eric had his second skin autograft today, a week after the first. The doctors were pleased with the results of the first autograft.

Scientists have glimpsed the three-dimensional structure of a protein that protects the ends of human chromosomes, a function essential for normal cell division and survival, according to Thomas Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a distinguished professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. By visualizing the protein as it surrounds the end of a chromosome, the scientists have learned how the protein homes in on a specific DNA sequence and acts like a protective cap to prevent erosion of chromosome ends, he said.

On the day that Carl Wieman received the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001, he insisted that the time of a news conference be moved up 15 minutes so that he wouldnÂ’t be late to teach his undergraduate class on physics for nonscience majors. His unwavering dedication to undergraduate teaching was recognized by two national organizations today when the distinguished professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder was named Professor of the Year among all doctoral and research universities in the United States.

Carl Wieman’s efforts to improve undergraduate teaching are “making waves nationally” in addition to influencing instruction at the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to Mary Ann Shea, director of the campus’s Faculty Teaching Excellence Program. When Wieman is invited to give a talk on his scientific research at another university, he often insists that he also be allowed to meet with faculty to discuss undergraduate science teaching.

Large banners congratulating Carl Wieman's selection as the 2004 U.S. Professor of the Year for doctoral and research universities will be displayed in three prominent locations on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Thursday, Nov. 18. At 10 a.m., CU-Boulder employees will hang a 10-by-20-foot banner on the east side of the Duane Physics Building, located just south of Folsom Stadium. Duane Physics houses the CU-Boulder physics department and the classrooms where Wieman teaches.