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The Environmental Protection Agency has honored Kathryn Mutz of the CU-Boulder Natural Resources Law Center with the agency's Environmental Achievement Award. Mutz is a senior research associate, lawyer and staff member at the center. The award was presented by Michael Gaydosh, deputy to the assistant regional administrator of enforcement, compliance and environmental justice, during the center's annual June conference.

At least three reservoirs likely will be contaminated by erosion in areas burned by this season's record wildfires, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher. The South Platte watershed and Cheesman Reservoir, one of Denver's important water sources, will be affected by erosion from the Hayman fire, while the Missionary Ridge fire could affect the Vallecito and Lemon reservoirs, according to John Gartner, a research assistant at CU-Boulder's Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research.

The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial treat, will be visible in night skies throughout Colorado in early August. The natural fireworks will be most active Aug. 9-15, peaking in the early morning hours of Aug. 13 when, just after midnight, between 80 to 200 meteors per hour could be visible, according to experts at Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Examples of physics concepts that can all be found in the average kitchen will be explored during the July 24 lecture "Physics at the Breakfast Table" at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Sidney Nagel, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, will present the free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20 on the CU-Boulder campus.

Note to Editors: Â鶹ÒùÔº will debate Friday, July 19, at 1 p.m. in room E155 of the Bruce Curtis Museum Collections Building, located near the intersection of Broadway and College Avenue on the CU-Boulder campus. High school students have converged this week at the University of Colorado at Boulder for a summer philosophy camp that examines the balance between personal freedom and state security.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Office of Community Affairs will host the opening ceremony for the Colorado "Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day" walk on Friday, Aug. 2, from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at Williams Village. The "Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day" is a national fundraiser taking place in 13 cities during summer 2002. The opening ceremony, which is not open to the public, will feature an inspirational message for the expected 2,500 walkers before they begin their three-day journey to Denver. They will complete their walk Sunday, Aug. 4, in Denver's Invesco Field at Mile High.

Colorado's record-setting wildfire season will leave behind potentially harmful conditions in water supplies, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher and former U.S. Forest Service firefighter. Mark Williams, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and co-associate director of the institute's undergraduate academy, said that a potentially cancerous compound called trihalomethane (THM) could show up in drinking water drawn from water bodies that drain burned areas.

Segments of the Bear Creek and Apache Road multiuse paths will be closed for approximately one month each this summer because of the Williams Village student housing expansion project for the University of Colorado at Boulder. Effective immediately, the Bear Creek multiuse path between Apache Road and Baseline Road will be closed. At least one path, either Apache Road or Bear Creek, will be maintained at all times to provide an appropriate detour route during the relocation of each path.

The Scripps Howard Foundation has awarded $555,470 to the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder for renewal of the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism. The fellowship program helps journalists better understand environmental issues and, in turn, they help educate the public, said Len Ackland, director of the center, which is part of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

For the fifth consecutive year, CU-Boulder faculty, staff and students are teaming up with Community Food Share to grow vegetables for people in need throughout Boulder County. The success of the program has grown each year and now includes a garden on the East Campus. "This is a wonderful example of two organizations working together to help people in need," said Dave Carlson, Community Food Share garden coordinator. "The gardens are a valuable source of fresh produce."