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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ WomenÂ’s Center awarded four scholarships to dedicated female students who showed high academic merit. Applications for the Center for Education and Career Transition Scholarships were evaluated on the basis of financial need and academic performance. Recipients for the fall 1998 semester are: Graduate Award

Professor J. Dennis Hynes has received the 1997-98 University of Colorado School of Law Excellence in Teaching Award. Hynes was selected by the law student body "in appreciation of the outstanding and exceptional effort to enhance studentsÂ’ educational experience." Hynes has been a law instructor at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ since 1970 and specializes in agency and partnership law, contract law and legal history. This year he taught the basic courses in the law of contracts to entering students and the advanced course in agency and partnership law.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will offer art and museum exhibits as well as dance and musical performances this summer in communities from ColoradoÂ’s western slope to its eastern plains. Now in its 10th year, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s popular outreach program, "CU This Summer," will provide cultural and artistic presentations in 14 Colorado cities and towns.

Adult literacy students in the city of Â鶹ӰԺ’s "Learning to Read" program are learning more than reading and writing this spring – theyÂ’re learning to send electronic mail and log onto the Internet as well. A new service-learning project of the linguistics department at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ pairs CU-Â鶹ӰԺ undergraduates with adult literacy students, augmenting the assistance provided by their regularly assigned tutors.

The Renewable Resources Journal has devoted an entire issue to an article by Albert Bartlett, a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professor emeritus and one of the worldÂ’s leading experts on population growth, that attempts to define the term "sustainability."

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host a series of events during the fourteenth National Science and Technology Week from April 27 to May 2. This yearÂ’s theme is "Polar Connections: Exploring the WorldÂ’s Natural Laboratories." The weekÂ’s purpose is to "engage the American public in the spirit of learning and adventure that is the hallmark of science and engineering." It is a major outreach effort by the National Science Foundation. Public lectures for general audiences will be held April 27 through April 29 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Duane Physics G020.

In 1989, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Richard Noble decided it was time to begin sharing part of his life working with people in need and began searching for a group that could use his skills.

It wasnÂ’t a marriage made in heaven. And now, after years of bickering, the partnership between the urban and rural West is on the rocks. In a program that is both fun and serious, the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will explore the complex relationship between urban and rural interests and cast it in very human terms. "The Urban-Rural Divorce in the American West," will begin at 1 p.m. May 9 at the Â鶹ӰԺ Public Library Auditorium, 1000 Canyon Blvd. The event is free and open to the public.

Stephen Ambrose, acclaimed author of the best-selling book "Undaunted Courage," and renowned historian Patricia Nelson Limerick of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will meet in Denver May 8 for a public discussion and debate on heroes and American history. Ambrose and Limerick will discuss "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Complex Guys? Praising and Appraising AmericaÂ’s Heroes" at 6 p.m. at the Denver Athletic Club, 1325 Glenarm Place. Tickets are $5 at the door and a book signing will follow.

G. Dale Meyer, an internationally renowned business professor at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been selected to receive the Hazel Barnes Prize, the campusÂ’ highest honor for teaching and research. The prize includes an engraved University Medal and cash award of $20,000. Chancellor Richard L. Byyny announced that Meyer, who helped establish CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s highly ranked entrepreneurship program, will be recognized during commencement exercises May 15 in Folsom Stadium.