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Fourteen students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ have been awarded diversity scholarships to study in other countries in 1998-99. Two diversity scholarships, one awarded by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and the other by the Colorado Commission of Higher Education (CCHE), help cover expenses in the Study Abroad program for Colorado residents who are underrepresented on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus because they are ethnic minorities or from the state's rural areas.

The study abroad program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has awarded $81,100 in scholarship aid to 104 students enrolled in study abroad programs in 1998-99. Eight CU-Â鶹ӰԺ students were awarded scholarships to participate in study abroad programs offered through Syracuse University. The aid comes from the program's auxiliary accounts, alumni donations, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education Diversity Fund and foundation donations.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ research team led by history Professor Robert Hohlfelder has discovered the remains of a 1,700-year-old Christian church submerged in shallow water in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern Turkey. The stone church, about 20 meters long and 10 meters wide, apparently was built sometime after 330 A.D. on the shoreline of the ancient city of Aperlae. As the shoreline subsided over the centuries due to earthquake activity, the church gradually sank about six feet into the clear Mediterranean water, said Hohlfelder.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study of the headwaters of the San Miguel River near Telluride has resulted in amendments to the land use code that will protect the headwater catchments from future degradation. The San Miguel watershed is considered one of the few remaining ecological and hydrological river systems in the West that has remained relatively unchanged. The predominately free-flowing San Miguel extends for 80 miles from high alpine meadows and waterfalls above Telluride to a deep-canyon confluence with the Dolores River.

Michael C. Grant, professor of environmental, population and organismic biology at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been selected to head up a new undergraduate education program aimed at highly motivated students with strong academic or creative abilities. The appointment, made by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Richard L. Byyny, was approved last week by CU President John C. Buechner.

John Hess, a professor at the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, continues to bring big-name business people to speak to his Profiles in American Enterprise class. Each week, students study a particular industry and attend a lecture from a highly successful CEO or an entrepreneur. The executives also have the opportunity to meet with small groups of students.

Fred Glover, MediaOne professor at the College of Business and Administration at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, has received the 1998 John Von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences. The prize, named in honor of mathematician and computer pioneer John Von Neumann, is awarded annually to the individual who has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and the City of Montrose announced July 31 that the university will pilot an interdisciplinary educational program that will bring a wide range of programs and special events to Montrose and surrounding communities. Called "CU in Residence," the project will offer everything from K-12 teacher, student and parent education to programs for business and civic leaders, senior groups and the cultural and performing arts.

More than 1,000 researchers from around the world including an astronaut who conducted fire experiments in space will meet in Â鶹ӰԺ Aug. 3 to Aug. 7 for the 27th International Symposium on Combustion. Co-sponsored by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Colorado School of Mines, the conference will showcase the most up-to-date findings in combustion research. The meeting, held every two years and which rotates between the United States and Europe, will be held at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ.

Twenty-one high school teachers from Colorado and other states will take on an unusual research project from Aug. 2 to Aug. 7, spending a week with scientists studying the effects of human activities in the Â鶹ӰԺ Creek watershed. Sponsored by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, the workshop will allow the teachers to conduct hands-on research on issues that affect the daily lives of Â鶹ӰԺ County residents.