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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's official fall 2001 enrollment counts include fewer freshmen than in fall 2000, but more students overall. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ planned to reduce freshmen this fall and this year's final census total of 4,982 is very close to the target of 4,950 set in December 2000. Last fall there were 5,095 freshmen. The fall 2001 total is lower by 113 students or 2 percent.

The National Science Foundation today named physics Professor Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ one of seven scientists and engineers in the United States to receive the first Director's Awards for Distinguished Teaching Scholars. The award is NSF's "highest honor for excellence in both teaching and research." Each recipient will receive $300,000 over the next four years to continue sharing their teaching talents and research excellence with students at all levels and with the public at large.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host a campus forum on "Being an Ally: Breaking Down Stereotypes" on Thursday, Sept. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room B150. According to organizers, the purpose of the forum is to provide an opportunity for students, staff and faculty to discuss the events of the last week and to identify ways that the community can support campus members who have been affected by negative stereotyping and acts of recrimination.

Note to Editors: This event is not open to the public, but reporters are encouraged to attend. This year's stock market volatility will be addressed by a group of investment professionals and finance professors at a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ conference to be held Sept. 21 and Sept. 22 at the Omni Interlocken in Broomfield.

Editors: The topic of this event has been changed since the original release was sent out earlier this month, in order to address the recent national tragedy. Four veteran journalists will participate in a town hall meeting on the topic "Crisis in America: Television's Role in Covering a Catastrophe" hosted by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Thursday, Sept. 20.

When Joanna Zofia Mishtal, a former tennis player in Poland's national team, decided to remain in the States in 1981 to escape her country's martial law system, she thought it would just be a short stay. "I was prepared to go back as soon as the martial law ended," she recalled. But Mishtal's journey to the West ended up being a long one. Twenty years later, Mishtal, now a Ph.D candidate in anthropology at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, is finally ready to go back, and this time as a Fulbright scholar.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's International Center for Standards and Research will host the second international conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology on campus Oct. 3 to Oct. 6. Sponsored by the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, the conference is expected to draw scores of scholars and government officials from around the world. Attendees will exchange insights into the complex interplay between standards and emerging information technologies, economics, law, society and culture.

The Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts has launched "Salsa y Santos," an exhibit celebrating Latino art and artists. The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 28 and is free and open to the public, was organized by the art center and University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ fine arts Professor George Rivera, who is curator of the exhibit.

Hyman Brown, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and the project engineer on New York's World Trade Center, will present a public lecture Wednesday, Sept. 19, on the collapse of the landmark structure. His talk, titled "The World Trade Center . . . Did We Make the Right Decisions in 1965?" will address such questions as why the buildings collapsed, whether anything could have been done during construction to minimize the disaster, and whether the towers should be rebuilt.

Note: The San Pablo water system and other projects of Engineers Without Borders will be described in a one-hour presentation at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Â鶹ӰԺ Creek Meeting Room, Â鶹ӰԺ Public Library. "Engineers Without Borders: Building a Better World One Project at a Time," is free and open to the public. A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty and student group has successfully installed a water system in a small Belize village, bringing water for drinking and irrigation to 250 Mayan Indians.