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More than 100 plant and animal experts will be surveying 6,000 acres of publicly owned and managed grasslands in Jefferson and Boulder counties June 25 and June 26 in a 24-hour scramble to identify as many species as possible.

While many of their peers attend athletic camps this summer to prepare for fall sports, students enrolled in two Front Range public schools will attend academic skills camps to prepare themselves for the study of engineering. More than 60 ninth-graders entering the Centaurus Pre-Engineering Academy and the new Denver School of Science and Technology this fall will get an introduction to the creativity and challenges in engineering through weeklong workshops presented by the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

William Wood, a distinguished professor of biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has won an international research award in recognition of a lifetime of scientific achievements, including groundbreaking work that could produce a better understanding of how genetic defects can lead to the birth of malformed children.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been selected by NASA to build two of the three instruments for a satellite that will launch in 2006 to study noctilucent clouds, the shiny, silvery-blue polar mesospheric clouds that form about 50 miles over Earth's polar regions each summer.

A panel discussion on media coverage of investigations and allegations surrounding football recruiting practices at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be held June 22 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in Hale Science Building room 270. The event is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.

Approximately 3,500 cyclists, support staff and fans will converge June 19 at the University of Colorado at Boulder to begin the 431-mile Ride The Rockies bicycle tour. Registration, seminars, food and entertainment will be available on campus from 9:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. Organizers expect about 850 tour participants to camp in designated areas on campus June 19. All Ride The Rockies events, except for the bicycle tour and camping, are open to the public.

Building proctors, laboratory managers and students, faculty and staff members at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be recognized for their efforts to reduce energy consumption in campus buildings through a new conservation program beginning this fall.

Editors' Note: Several CU-Boulder and Dillard students are available to talk about their experiences in the exchange program. Please contact Michael Grant, Lucy Sanders or Monteith Mitchell for names and contact information. A group of University of Colorado at Boulder students toured cities in the southern United States that played major roles in American civil rights history June 7-12 as part of an exchange program with Dillard University, a historically black liberal arts college in New Orleans.

"Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend," a national traveling exhibition that focuses on the brilliant monarch who ruled England from 1558 until 1603, opens at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Norlin Library on June 25 for six weeks. Organized by the Newberry Library of Chicago in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office, the free exhibition shows how Elizabeth I transformed England into one of the most powerful and culturally rich countries in the world.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend. High school juniors from throughout Colorado will get a taste of college life and see what it's like to compete in the business world during a weeklong CU-Boulder program on campus June 20-26.