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University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Norman Pace has been named a 2001 winner of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, often called a "Genius Grant." Pace, a professor in the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department, is the fifth CU-Boulder faculty member to win the prestigious award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago. Pace, 59, was one of 23 recipients of the 2001 "no-strings attached" funding.

The dance program at the University of Colorado at Boulder was recently named one of 51 grant recipients from the National College Choreography Initiative, a National Endowment for the Arts fund administered by Dance/USA. The $10,000 award will enable CU's dance program to host a notable dance artist on campus later this year.

The effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Colorado's tourism industry will be addressed Oct. 24 at the Colorado tourism conference sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. The conference is organized by the Center for Sustainable Tourism at the Leeds School of Business and the Colorado Tourism Office. Conference topics also will address how to keep tourists returning to Colorado, U.S. travel trends and the future of skiing in Colorado.

Note to Editors: NASA's still images and movie files, courtesy of NASA's Dana Berry can be accessed at: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011015blackhole.html . For the first time ever, astrophysicists have observed extra energy escaping from the supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy.

Cal Skaggs, producer of the five-part documentary series "Local News," will be featured as a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 24 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Hale Science Building, room 270.

Leeds School Of Business Appoints Six Top Executives To Advisory Council CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business Dean Steven Manaster has appointed six new members to the school's Business Advisory Council. The six accomplished executives from a variety of professional backgrounds will bring invaluable experience to the role of advising the school's administration, said Manaster. The new members are Hollis Booker, Patrick Butler, Richard Engebretson, Marcia Pryde, John Puerner and Beth Slifer.

Most young girls living in the Five Points neighborhood, an African-American and Mexican-American community in downtown Denver, have grown up with the idea that a job means working at McDonald's, serving as a waitress or janitor, selling in a retail store, or accepting other low-paid work. That notion is something Margaret Eisenhart, professor of educational anthropology and research methodology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is trying to change.

As society becomes more dependent on high-tech savvy people, two fundamental skills still stand out as pertinent in the complex modern world - writing and critical thinking. This fall, drawing on input from faculty across campus and independent writing experts from outside the university, a new writing and rhetoric program that focuses on sharpening these essential skills has been put in place for about 750 undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A scale model of the solar system, which will be formally dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, has roots at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Family Housing Children's Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder was recently awarded a CCAMPIS grant in the amount of $250,000 by the U.S. Department of Education. The grant, named Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools, will be budgeted at $62,500 annually for four years to help the center launch SUCCEED, a program aimed at supporting higher education for low-income parents by providing affordable and high-quality early childhood programs for their children.