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University of Colorado at Boulder Associate Professor Fred Anderson recently received two prestigious awards for his book "Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766." In early May Anderson received both the 2001 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and the Mark Lynton History Prize, which is part of the Lukas Prize Project established in 1998 to honor the best in American nonfiction writing.

The University of Colorado at Boulder received a large boost from NASA last week, including $9.5 million to design and build an instrument for a mission to Mercury and $450,000 to refine a proposal to head up an unmanned Pluto mission. Daniel Baker, director of CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, was named a science team member for NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury, slated for launch in March 2004. Expected to arrive at Mercury in 2009, the $256 million Messenger mission was given the green light by NASA on June 7 to fly.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will welcome almost 5,000 newly admitted freshman students along with their parents to two-day orientation programs starting June 14 and ending Aug. 23. All of the orientation sessions in June and July are for students admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences or the College of Business and Administration.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will begin removing six structures in the Grandview Terrace area on June 18th, CU facilities management officials said today. Jeff Lipton, executive director of Facilities Management, said none of the first six buildings received offers for relocation.

The CU Parents Association at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a series of orientation dinners for parents of incoming students in June and July at the University Club. The dinners coincide with orientation sessions for new freshmen and transfer students and provide opportunities for new CU-Boulder parents to become acquainted with the association's board members, the Office of Parent Relations and staff from student affairs programs and services.

The University of Colorado at Boulder plans to continue its efforts to reduce high-risk drinking when the five-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation expires, university officials said. The $860,000 grant is currently scheduled to expire in August.

The Black Biomedical Research Movement at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a presentation by Virginia Richardson, cancer survivor, at the Juneteenth Black Health Expo at the Gipson Eastside Family Health Center, 501 28th St. in Denver, on June 15 from 1:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Richardson, a single mother of three children, will give a lecture on her efforts to promote minority health care.

Astronomers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a key building block for new stars in the rapidly expanding remains of an ancient stellar explosion. Presented at the 197th meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting June 3 to June 7 in Pasadena, Calif., the study provides insights into the early stages of a process by which violent stellar explosions help produce new stars.

Aswad Allen is the new director of the CU-Boulder College of Business's Diversity and Minority Programs, business Dean Steven Manaster announced. "We created this position because diversity is a top priority of our school," Manaster said. "Aswad's experience will help advance the college's goals of implementing a broader scope of initiatives. He brings a comprehensive background of leading diversity programs and will help us move this priority to the next level."

Two decades after questions about safety and the disposal of radioactive waste effectively halted the development of nuclear power in the United States, the nuclear industry is once again being considered as a viable source of energy. But investors planning to climb on the nuclear bandwagon should be aware of the significant cleanup costs that these plants will incur in the future, according to a new study published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.