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Note to Editors: All of the scientific sessions are closed to the public but open to the media, except for the June 28 talks at the Millennium Hotel, which are open to all. Roughly 250 scientists from around the world have converged on Â鶹ӰԺ this week to present their latest findings on Jupiter, its satellites and magnetosphere. Attendees will present the latest results from NASA's Galileo Mission now at Jupiter, the Cassini Mission to Saturn which recently passed by Jupiter, the Hubble Space Telescope and several ground based observatories.

Reporters and photographers are invited to cover CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's second annual "Picnic on the Quad," Saturday, July 7, beginning at 4 p.m. in the Norlin Quadrangle on campus. Free activities at the picnic will continue into the evening and include live music, hands-on science workshops for kids through CU's Science Discovery Program and the CU Museum of Natural History, ice skating, ice cream, sidewalk chalk art projects and face painting. Special visits from "Chip," CU's animated mascot, and Will Shakespeare himself also are part of the program.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study foresees increasing sprawl in 11 Western states during the next 50 years as greater numbers of people choose to reside in low-density suburban and rural settings. By 2050, the total number of developed acres in the contiguous states is expected to grow by more than 26 million acres as the population surges by 48 million, according to geography professor and project leader William Riebsame Travis.

Approximately 400 students from several CU-Â鶹ӰԺ summer diversity programs have been invited to the third annual Diversity & Excellence Summer Gathering on June 27 from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The gathering will be held at Observatory Field, south of the Business College along Regent Drive, and will include food and entertainment. The event is an opportunity for middle school, high school and undergraduate students from various summer diversity programs to meet each other and experience a college atmosphere, according to organizers.

The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ received approval of a $28.1 million budget for fiscal 2001-2002 from the CU Board of Regents at its June 21 meeting in Denver. The 2001-2002 athletics budget is part of the overall Â鶹ӰԺ campus budget submitted by Chancellor Richard L. Byyny. As an auxiliary enterprise, Intercollegiate Athletics must generate increased revenue to cover all increases in expenditures. This year's budget represents a 5.1 percent increase from last year.

Editors: The media is invited to visit the ITL Laboratory on June 21 or June 22 when K-12 students will be using the new laptop computers in the pre-college engineering class "How Do Things Work?" The class, made up exclusively of older elementary and middle-school girls, meets both days from 9 a.m. to noon in ITLL room 150.

Note to editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend this event. High school students from throughout Colorado are participating in CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Business Leadership Program this week through June 23. Sponsored by the College of Business and local corporations, the free program offers 30 outstanding students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to get a head start on their college careers.

University of Colorado students from the colleges of business and engineering have presented the city of Â鶹ӰԺ with a proposal, created during a business plan competition course, for a state-of-the-art indoor soccer field. The students designed the Â鶹ӰԺ Valley Sports Complex to alleviate the growing demand for indoor recreational facilities in Â鶹ӰԺ. The plan features two state-of-the-art soccer fields in Valmont City Park.

Three University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2001-2002 academic year, and another was selected as an alternate. Since the university began recording award information in 1977, a total of 74 students have received Fulbright grants and 17 have been selected as alternates. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Fulbright award winners are: Dan Hanley, a doctoral candidate in education, was awarded a scholarship to Norway. He will examine Norway's school-based evaluation system through case studies of two schools with exemplary programs.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Richard Byyny announced today that Bob and Judy Charles have donated funds to create a $1.5 million endowed chair at the University of Colorado's College of Music. The new chair represents the second such endowment for the College of Music in the last seven months and the two endowed chairs are the first ever for the College of Music in CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's 125-year history. According to Daniel Sher, dean of the College of Music, this unprecedented support for endowed chairs is testament to the dedication of a large number of faculty and staff.