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An anonymous donor has contributed 1,500 classical compact discs to the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Music Library, increasing the library's CD collection by more than 12 percent. The CDs are primarily piano music and will make the library's holdings of recorded classical piano music one of the most complete in the country. The gift will be known as the Ian Gindes Collection, in honor of a former student of the donor.

Chancellor Richard Byyny of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and President Michael Lomax of Dillard University in New Orleans have announced that the two schools are forging a new educational technology partnership in conjunction with CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's ATLAS initiative. The two institutions each bring significant strengths and aspirations to the project, according to Bobby Schnabel, associate vice chancellor for academic and campus technology and the faculty director for ATLAS, the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society.

Two summer sessions of The Â鶹ӰԺ Campus Smoking Cessation Program, the only tobacco cessation program in Â鶹ӰԺ County, will be offered at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ beginning June 6 and June 10. "The classes we offer have a higher success rate than most other tobacco cessation programs," said Margaret Resch, director of the Employee Wellness Program at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ.

Editors: Photo scans of the two sites are available by calling (303) 492-3114. Two groups of students from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ are now in Utah and New Mexico studying ancient Pueblo ruins as part of a larger effort to understand the fate of the Four Corners Anasazi people after A.D. 1100.

New findings by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ researchers indicate ozone losses due to the breakdown of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, occur much faster than previously believed at higher latitudes roughly 10 miles above Earth.

A high alpine lake in the Colorado Rockies is showing increased algal growth thought to be caused by atmospheric nitrogen deposition from auto emissions and agricultural activity on the heavily populated Front Range, including Denver.

Editors: A complete schedule of events is posted on the NRLC home page at http://www.colorado.edu/Law/NRLC . The Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ School of Law will host a four-day conference devoted to examining issues related to water management programs across the globe, with an eye toward applications in the American West.

Allison H. Eid, associate professor at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ School of Law, will be able to serve her students next semester while also serving her country. Eid was appointed last month by President Bush to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. Established by Congress in 1955 to administer the funds given to the government by the late Justice Holmes, the Permanent Committee prepares the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and sponsors the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture.

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) selected the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's "International Prospective Student Web Site" for a gold medal in the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards. The site beat out both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Georgia Institute of Technology sites. One hundred ninety entries were judged, from which four gold medals, seven silver medals and three bronze medals were awarded. Other winners of the gold medal included Cornell University, Lewis and Clark College and the University at Buffalo.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ researcher has been awarded a prestigious Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellowship by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation in New York. Morgan Tucker, a postdoctoral fellow in the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department, was one of only 20 researchers nationwide to be awarded a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellowship in 2002. He will receive $128,500 over the three-year fellowship. Tucker received his doctorate from the University of Arizona.