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Note to editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend this event. High school students from throughout Colorado are participating in CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Business Leadership Program this week through June 23. Sponsored by the College of Business and local corporations, the free program offers 30 outstanding students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to get a head start on their college careers.

University of Colorado students from the colleges of business and engineering have presented the city of Â鶹ӰԺ with a proposal, created during a business plan competition course, for a state-of-the-art indoor soccer field. The students designed the Â鶹ӰԺ Valley Sports Complex to alleviate the growing demand for indoor recreational facilities in Â鶹ӰԺ. The plan features two state-of-the-art soccer fields in Valmont City Park.

Three University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2001-2002 academic year, and another was selected as an alternate. Since the university began recording award information in 1977, a total of 74 students have received Fulbright grants and 17 have been selected as alternates. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Fulbright award winners are: Dan Hanley, a doctoral candidate in education, was awarded a scholarship to Norway. He will examine Norway's school-based evaluation system through case studies of two schools with exemplary programs.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Richard Byyny announced today that Bob and Judy Charles have donated funds to create a $1.5 million endowed chair at the University of Colorado's College of Music. The new chair represents the second such endowment for the College of Music in the last seven months and the two endowed chairs are the first ever for the College of Music in CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's 125-year history. According to Daniel Sher, dean of the College of Music, this unprecedented support for endowed chairs is testament to the dedication of a large number of faculty and staff.

The Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics' 10th Quadrennial Symposium is being held at the Raintree Plaza Hotel in Longmont through June 22. More than 100 students and 260 scientists and researchers from around the world have gathered to discuss topics on solar-terrestrial physics and atmospheric science. They will hear from guest speakers and participate in tutorial lectures and poster sessions. The meeting began June 17.

Mark your calendars and pull out your picnic baskets for the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's second annual "Picnic on the Quad" July 7 beginning at 4 p.m. in the historic Norlin Quadrangle.

Dale Hatfield, director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been appointed a member of the Technological Advisory Council to the Federal Communications Commission. The federal advisory committee, which is comprised of 33 leading technologists, helps provide technological insights that the FCC needs to stay abreast of innovations in communications and related industries.

Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will explore the dynamics of the solar system and the way it was shaped by millions of collisions in "Cosmic Collisions and Our Solar System," on Friday, June 29, at 8 p.m. at the planetarium. The pre-recorded show takes viewers back in time to the beginning of the solar system when the devastating impact of asteroids, comets and millions of chunks of floating debris reworked the surfaces of the planets.

The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been named a "Program of Excellence" by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and awarded $1.37 million in funding over the next five years.

NEWS TIP SHEET Famed Colorado High School Inventor to Present Research at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ June 14 Grand Junction, Colo., teenager Ryan Patterson, who made national news this spring for inventing a glove that translates American Sign Language into written words on a computer screen, will talk about his research at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ June 14.