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Tampering to walls adjacent to bathrooms at Farrand Hall at the University of Colorado at Boulder has prompted campus Housing Department officials and CU Police to announce measures now under way to prevent further tampering. Housing Department officials have reported damage to locks and in the walls of four closets adjacent to four women's shower facilities on the first floor of Farrand Hall. Small holes drilled into walls in the closets may have been used by an intruder to see into the showers while they were in use.

Kristen Gillmon and Jeremy Zartman, two students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, have been named 2002 Goldwater Scholars, according to Michael Grant, associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education. "This is a proud accomplishment for these excellent students. It also honors the university and the many faculty members and other supporters who contributed time and expertise," Grant said.

Note to Editors: The final judging of student presentations on April 18 is not open to the public but reporters and photographers are welcome to attend. Presentations will be made from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Imig Music Building, room C125. The University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music, home to one of the nation's few music entrepreneurship centers, is holding a contest in which music students can win $2,000 grants to explore or create an entrepreneurial opportunity.

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates older adults may be able to combat oxidative stress in their cells that may damage tissues and interfere with normal physiological functions by loading up on vitamin C. Although virtually all living things on Earth need oxygen to exist, oxygen can combine with other molecules to form toxic oxygen "free radicals," said CU-Boulder Research Associate Christopher Bell of the kinesiology and applied physiology department. "When oxygen mixes with the wrong crowd, it also can be our enemy."

Nobel laureate and CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman will speak to the Boulder chapter of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association on April 16 to honor local high school students selected to receive $2,500 scholarships. The Boulder Alumni Scholarship Reception will be held between 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Koenig Alumni Center, located at the corner of Broadway and University Avenue on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public. A light dessert will be served.

The department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $28,000 to advance an educational outreach program intended to draw more females, minorities and economically disadvantaged students into studying chemistry and biochemistry. The three-year grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation will be used to further support the Cool and Creative Chemistry program, which was launched in January with support from the CU-Boulder Outreach Council.

Despite a slowdown in the amount of venture capital investment nationally, interest in entrepreneurship programs remains high on campuses throughout the country. Some students are taking the business plans they create in school into successful ventures in the real world.

The department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a special lecture April 8 on structural engineering and design in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Colorado's 2001 Nobel laureates, Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Senior Scientist Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will give a free public lecture on April 17. The lecture, titled "Making the World's Coldest Stuff: Two Coloradans Tell How They Won the Nobel Prize," will begin at 8 p.m. in Macky Auditorium on the CU-Boulder campus. No tickets or reservations are required.

Painter Colleen Cutschall will lecture April 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building room N141. The event is free and open to the public. Cutschall is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe in Pine Ridge, S.D. Through her art she creates three-dimensional, powerful and spiritually inspired imagery, working with both natural and new materials.