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Students in the Minority Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ have completed a project with the Colorado Historical Society on a new historical roadside marker. The signs will be installed later this month near mile marker 39 on the south side of the road in Â鶹ӰԺ Canyon. The exact date is pending.

The conflicting opinions of Western water resource stakeholders are the centerpiece of a unique new summer course at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. As part of "Western Issues: Science, Policy and Public Perception," students will meet with competing interests in the fight for control of the West's most precious resource. The students will then attempt to create solutions to water-related conflicts.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ electrical engineering department senior Jennifer Michels was chosen as Colorado's student employee of the year by the Colorado Commission of Higher Education for her work in the space sciences. Michels is employed by the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, headquartered at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, which includes 15 colleges, universities and institutions. Made up primarily of undergraduate students, the consortium is sponsored by NASA to design, build, test and fly space experiments.

For the second consecutive year, students in the jazz studies program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's College of Music have won three Down Beat Magazine Student Music Awards. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Jazz Ensemble I, a big band under the direction of Professor John Davis, was honored for outstanding performance. Pianist Andy Nevala won for his unique arrangement of the jazz standard "Autumn Leaves," and vibraphonist Greg Harris was cited for outstanding performance on his own original composition, "Switch." Nevala and Harris are students of Assistant Professor Chip Stephens.

The CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Friends of the Libraries will present a talk by local mystery writer Stephanie Kane at the 11th annual Just Desserts event on Friday, May 16. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Fleming Law Building on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. It is free and open to the public. A dessert reception will precede the program.

People who plan to attend the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ commencement ceremony May 9 at 8:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium will join a crowd of about 20,000 and should plan an early arrival. The majority of available parking for the ceremony will be in Lot 436 on Regent Drive, just south of Colorado Avenue. Close-in parking and drop-off for those who have difficulty walking will be along Colorado Avenue south of the stadium. People who want to use the drop-off area should do so before the student procession, which begins at 8 a.m.

Two University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty members have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the only Coloradans to receive the honor this year. Elected to the nation's oldest learned society were Charles DePuy, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry, and Robert F. Nagel, the Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. professor of constitutional law. They are among only 16 CU-Â鶹ӰԺ faculty members to have been elected members of the academy.

The basic chemistry of life processes will be the subject of the May 17 CU Wizards show "Biochemistry for Kids." University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Associate Professor Deborah Wuttke will present the show at 9:30 a.m. in Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry, room 140. The show is aimed at students in grades five through nine and is free and open to the public.

The CU Parents Association has awarded $41,000 in scholarships to 41 undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, according to Peter Simons, director of the Office of Parent Relations. The scholarship awards are merit-based and are presented each spring. Scholarships are made possible by CU Parents Association fund-raising efforts. Interested students must complete and submit an application by early March. This year, $17,000 in scholarships was awarded to 17 incoming freshmen. Another $24,000 in scholarships was awarded to 24 continuing students.

A team of MBA students from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Leeds School of Business trumped a team from the University of Denver at the first annual Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge last Thursday, May 1.