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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is launching a national search for a director of the Center for Advanced Training in Engineering and Computer Science. Vince Micucci, CATECS director, has announced his retirement, effective Feb. 7, 2003. CATECS, a program of the Division of Continuing Education, serves as the distance learning arm of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's College of Engineering and Applied Science.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has begun a national search for a new executive director of university communications, a position vacated in early July by the departure of Bobbi Barrow who left the university to join Denver Health. Ric Porreca, senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, has been named chair of the search committee. Porreca said the campus is in the process of selecting members to serve on the search committee, which will begin work immediately. He expects a new executive director will be named during the fall semester.

Note to Editors: Media are encouraged to attend during the weeklong session. Twenty-five elementary and high school science teachers entered a dream laboratory of forests, ponds, streams and wildlife northwest of Â鶹ӰԺ July 27 to begin a week of living and breathing Earth science. The teachers are participating in Earthworks, an annual professional development program sponsored by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.

Faculty and students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ may soon be granting wishes for Colorado schools and nonprofit and community organizations as part of a new program called the Wish List. In an effort to encourage academic partnerships with Colorado communities, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ is compiling a list of needs and requests from around the state. The Wish List will serve as a resource for faculty and academic programs that want to incorporate experiential learning opportunities into the course curriculum.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will confer 1,177 degrees during the university's final summer commencement ceremony Saturday, Aug. 10, at 8:30 a.m. on the Norlin Quadrangle. Last winter, the Council of Deans, associate deans, Chancellor Richard L. Byyny and the commencement committee agreed to eliminate the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ August commencement ceremony beginning in 2003, according to Jeanne McDonald, commencement coordinator. "This decision was made due to the low number of participants we have had at the August ceremony," McDonald said.

Northern and Southern Arapaho tribe members will gather for the 'coming back home' pow-wow or "Ce'no'eeckoohuut" beginning at 10 a.m. July 28 on the Norlin Quad at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. "The pow-wow works to strengthen the bond between CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and the Arapaho Tribe and promotes an excellent cultural education opportunity for everyone," said Leslee Caballero, co-coordinator for CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's American Indian Student Services.

Two CU-Â鶹ӰԺ chefs took home bronze medals in the "mystery basket" competition at the national Chef Culinary Conference held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Paul Houle of the University Club and David Kambic of Sewall Hall won their awards in an event that gave the chefs four hours to prepare a full meal with ingredients that were not revealed until the competition began.

Editors: Reporters who wish to attend the panel should contact Maureen Lienau at (303) 492-5773 beforehand. CU Professor and Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman will discuss the challenges and rewards of being a faculty member at a panel for the Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training program Aug. 1 at 1 p.m. in Duane Physics, room G131.

A new study indicates the Asian southwest monsoon, which affects the livelihood of millions of people, appears to have increased in intensity during the last four centuries, perhaps as a result of warming in the Northern Hemisphere.

Two University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ freshmen are starting their college research careers by working for Nobel Prize-winning professors as part of a program designed to attract top students to the university. Edwin Eng and Kevin Chang, who will begin classes at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ in the fall, are among 30 students taking advantage of the university's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program. Eng and Chang are assisting in research projects for professors Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell, winners of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics.