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When Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology receive the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics on April 27, the awards ceremony will be broadcast live on the World Wide Web. For the first time, the Franklin Institute's awards ceremony in Philadelphia can be seen via computer in real time at www.fi.edu . The ceremony, hosted by CBS news anchor Charles Osgood, will begin at 7 p.m. EDT.

John Birks, a professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder and fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences has been selected to receive CU-BoulderÂ’s highest recognition for teaching and research, the Hazel Barnes Prize. Chancellor Richard L. Byyny announced that Birks will be recognized during summer commencement exercises on Aug. 12.

CU-Boulder MBA students are hosting the eighth annual Barney Ford Auction at the CU-Boulder Museum on Saturday, April 29, to fund academic fellowships that support diversity at the College of Business. The event, held at 6 p.m., supports the Barney Ford Scholarships. The scholarships were established in honor of Barney Ford, a former slave who came to Denver during the 1850s. Ford became very successful in restaurant and hotel entrepreneurial ventures before making a considerable fortune in mining.

Colorado and the nation have felt the impact as the worldÂ’s oil-producing countries raised crude oil prices in recent months, particularly in California, where premium gas has been going for as much as $2.139 a gallon. According to University of Colorado at Boulder economist Richard Wobbekind, higher gas prices this summer will effect ColoradoÂ’s economy to varying degrees. But overall Wobbekind predicts the strong economy will offset any major setbacks. A summary of how Wobbekind expects higher prices to effect Colorado follows.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an astronaut and fly in space? One lucky third, fourth or fifth-grade class from the Boulder area will have the chance to ask NASA astronauts these questions and more. The University of Colorado at Boulder and the Daily Camera in Education program have partnered to offer a contest for an hour-long one-on-one meeting with the astronauts, all of whom are CU-Boulder alumni. The class also will go on a field trip to the CU Heritage Center to see the space exhibit on Thursday, May 11, at 9 a.m.

High-stakes accountability testing is driving out better and more thoughtful means of assessing student learning, according to a prominent education researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "We have to make assessment in classrooms more useful, more helpful in learning," said Lorrie Shepard, professor of research methodology in the CU-Boulder School of Education and president of the 23,000-member American Educational Research Association.

Richard L. Byyny, chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, today outlined a series of actions he intends to take in response to an ad hoc committeeÂ’s recommendations on the manufacture of collegiate apparel. The actions include an incentive plan that will provide a 10 percent rebate on royalties paid as part of university contracts for licensed goods. The rebate will reward companies that are in compliance with the code of conduct recommended by the committee.

A 13-year-old boy who lost his arm during the Soviet bombing of Afghanistan more than a decade ago will soon regain a degree of function thanks to a team of CU-Boulder engineering students who have built him a prosthetic arm. The boy was injured by shrapnel from a bomb that fell near his backyard when he was just 2 years old. He lost his entire right arm and part of his shoulder in the incident.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will no longer accept applications from new freshmen for the fall term 2000, said Barbara Schneider, executive director of enrollment management for the campus. However, transfer student applications at this time will continue to be considered. A record number of applications has been received from both resident and non-resident students, and the freshman class may be as large as 4,917, up from 4,595 in l999.

J. Michael Giles, chairman of the Merrill Lynch International Banking Group, will present the Ben K. Miller Memorial International Business Lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 25. Giles will speak at 3:30 p.m. in room 100 of the Mathematics Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.