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The first students of the innovative Roaring Fork Teacher Education Project will graduate this week from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. The one-of-a-kind program houses future teachers in the Roaring Fork Valley near Aspen, Colo., where they live together and perform community service in addition to teaching. By being part of the community the students learn about the lives of their students outside of the classroom, according to Liz Meador, co-director of the Roaring Fork project.

Sven Steinmo, director of the University of Colorado Conference on World Affairs, today announced his resignation as conference director, effective June 30. A professor of political science at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, Steinmo has led the conference since 1995. Steinmo cited his wish to spend more time in teaching and scholarship, as well as his desire to spend more time with his family, as the major factors influencing his decision to step down.

NEWS TIP SHEET Gov. Roy Romer will deliver the keynote address at a special recognition ceremony for graduates of the University of Colorado School of Law on May 15 beginning at 2 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. The governor earned his law degree from the CU School of Law in 1952, and his son Tom is a member of this year's law school graduating class. Justice Alex Martinez, who was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court in 1996 by Gov. Romer, will receive the Honorary Order of the Coif.

The sexual harassment policy of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been revised, effective immediately, based on input from numerous individuals and groups on campus and review by legal counsel. Chancellor Richard L. Byyny recently approved the revised policy, which will continue to evolve with ongoing reviews and updates.

The former Office of Affirmative Action and Services at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been merged with the campus' new Office of Diversity and Equity, effective May 1. The Office of Diversity and Equity, headed by Ofelia Miramontes, interim associate vice chancellor for diversity, is charged with providing leadership and direction for campus diversity activities. Within the new organization, Affirmative Action and Services will be called the Department of Equity and Access.

A $1 million parallel supercomputing machine donated to the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ by IBM will be used in part to help model issues associated with the reliability and safety of U.S. nuclear stockpiles. Donated to the applied mathematics department in the College of Arts and Sciences and the computer science department in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the machine is a smaller version of the massive machines at U.S. Department of Energy research laboratories.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Richard L. Byyny, who also is a professor of medicine at the CU Health Sciences Center in Denver, will give a talk titled "Cancer: Perspectives of a Physician" on Tuesday, May 12 at the Â鶹ӰԺ Public Library.

The Alumni Association of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host the Golden Anniversary Reunion and Alumni Awards Ceremony May 14-16, sandwiched around the university's spring commencement ceremony. A record-breaking number of graduates of the class of 1948 and years prior -- about 225 people -- are expected to attend the festivities. William Royal of Â鶹ӰԺ, an electrical engineering graduate and member of the class of 1928, will represent the earliest class attending the reunion.

Leonard Wright, a doctoral student in civil engineering at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and a graduate research assistant at the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, is the nation's first recipient of the Floodplain Management Graduate Fellowship. Wright will be awarded $25,000 by the Association of State Floodplain Managers Inc. for research that will estimate the level of flooding and environmental costs that can be attributed to urban development. The award follows a national competition in which graduate students submitted research proposals.

The University of Colorado Libraries has begun to transfer a small portion of its materials to an off-campus storage site to ease the overcrowding of book stacks and study areas. The Periodicals Room at Norlin Library is the first area to see the benefits with patrons enjoying improved access to journals and services.