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Officials at the University of Colorado at Boulder expressed sadness today at the death of Byron R White, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice, CU-Boulder valedictorian and the school's first All-American football player. "It was a privilege and pleasure for me to have known Justice Byron White," said CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny. "His tenure on the Supreme Court was distinguished, characterized by independent thinking and enormous integrity.

The Boulder Chapter of the CU Alumni Association has chosen three Boulder High School seniors to receive $2,500 scholarships for the 2002-03 academic year at CU-Boulder. Samuel (Clark) Berngard, Shan Lui and Ethan Van Duzer - all Boulder High School seniors -- are this year's winners. All three scholarship winners will graduate in the top 10 percent of their Boulder High School graduating class of 368, and their grade-point averages were all higher than 3.9.

Six tiny University of Colorado at Boulder experiments will be lofted by a large helium balloon from Windsor, Colo., to a height of about 17 miles before drifting back to Earth on the eastern plains via parachute on Saturday, April 20.

The University of Colorado at Boulder received $219 million in sponsored research awards for the 2000-2001 fiscal year, setting another financial record for the campus. NASA provided most of the award dollars to the campus -- $49 million - followed by the National Science Foundation at $42 million, the Department of Health and Human Services at $31 million and the Department of Commerce at nearly $22 million. CU-Boulder received $214 million in sponsored research in the 1999-2000 fiscal year.

Tim Gill, founder and former chairman of Denver-based Quark Inc., will speak on "Being Gay In The Business World" at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 24 at the Museum Collections Building, formerly the Geography Building, room W-100. The talk is at 3 p.m. followed by a reception in Dinosaur Hall of the Henderson Museum. Gill is a graduate of the CU-Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he earned a degree in applied mathematics in 1976. He went on to build Quark into a $1 billion computer software company.

Boulder resident Silvio Guerre, a native of Ecuador who finished second in the last two Boston Marathons, recently scored the highest fitness level of anyone ever tested at CU-Boulder's kinesiology and applied physiology department. The physiological test was conducted at the Human Cardiovascular Research Laboratory on campus on April 8. Guerre is among the favorites to win the 106th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15.

Five alumni and the founding chair of the computer science department will be honored with Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards at the 37th annual Engineering Awards Banquet at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 12.

Gilbert F. White, distinguished professor emeritus of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has won 2002 Lifetime Achievement Honors from the Association of American Geographers. The association's highest award was presented at the annual AAG meeting in Los Angeles last month for White's "half-century plus of pioneering research on human-environmental resource issues and his commitment to improving our understanding of the earth and all life."

Yuki Ojika, a junior dance major in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been invited to perform a solo of her own choreography at the National American College Dance Festival to be held May 13-15 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Ojika's dance is the sixth to be invited to the prestigious biennial festival from CU-Boulder since 1981.

On April 23, Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder will present "Colorado Skies," a live show featuring some of the stellar sights seen in Coolrado's night sky. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Visitors will see images of the night sky over Colorado as it appears to the unaided eye, through telescopes and in wavelengths of light that human eyes can't see. They also will learn about upcoming events in the night sky, and will track the movement of planets through the skies of this month and beyond.