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Colorado nature photographer and local publisher John Fielder will give the commencement address at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ summer commencement ceremony Saturday, Aug. 12, at 8:30 a.m. in Norlin Quadrangle. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ will confer 1,008 degrees, including 696 bachelorÂ’s degrees, 174 masterÂ’s and 138 doctoral degrees. The summer ceremony, which is much smaller than the spring and winter ceremonies, will last about two hours and include the reading of all the graduatesÂ’ names.

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the best celestial treats of the year, will be visible in night skies throughout Colorado in early August. The meteors will decorate the night sky Aug. 10 – 14, peaking on Aug. 12 when as many as 50 meteors per hour could be visible, according to experts at the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Libraries will celebrate the life of Leo Walter Cabell Jr., retired associate director of the University Libraries and assistant professor emeritus on Monday, Aug. 7, at 3 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus. The service is open to the public and marks the one-year anniversary of his death. Memories, anecdotes and photos submitted no later than Thursday, Aug. 3, will be compiled for a memory book. Items may be sent to the Norlin Library Dean's Office, N210C, Campus Box 184, Â鶹ӰԺ, CO 80309-0184.

Editors: For more information about events involving the Canebearer and Outstanding Senior Woman reunion, contact Nancy Miller or Kay Oltmans at the CU Heritage Center at (303) 492-6329. Canebearers and Outstanding Senior Women from past University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduating classes will gather during the university summer commencement for a reunion.

Executives from across the country are learning cutting-edge business strategies at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Colorado Executive Development in Residence program, taking place through Aug. 4 at the College of Business. Earl Frasier is finding material covered in the CEDIR course "Leading and Managing in Changing Times" applies directly to his role as regional customer service manager at Sun Microsystems.

Eleven alumni of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ have begun three-year terms on the Alumni AssociationÂ’s board of directors this month. The board members, elected from an active pool of nominees, oversee Alumni Association programs that serve approximately 200,000 alumni. Members heading the national board for 2000-01 are chair Lorin Chevalier of Littleton, chair-elect Dave Karpel of Denver and treasurer Al Sanders of Houston. They lead the 51-member board, which includes the following Coloradans as new members:

A partially submerged city on the Mediterranean Sea in present-day Turkey has yielded a second underwater church, leading researchers to believe the settlement was a magnet for pilgrims traveling to and from the Holy Land nearly 2,000 years ago.

Kristi S. Anseth, an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been named one of 18 faculty members nationwide to receive a prestigious 2000 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Each $60,000 award is designed to support an outstanding young faculty member in the early stages of his or her academic career. "This award will assist these outstanding scientists to continue their high level of accomplishment in education and research, " according to the New York-based Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.

General Electric has donated almost $74,000 to the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ as part of the GE Fund's Corporate Alumni Program, Chancellor Richard Byyny announced today. General Electric employees, retirees and directors, who are alumni of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, participate in the program each year. The GE Fund matches alumni donations dollar for dollar.

Editors: Photographs of musicians are available in print and digital versions by calling (303) 492-4007. A complete schedule of events is posted at www.centerwest.org/music . Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tish Hinojosa and the Hot Club of Cowtown will be among the musicians giving free performances on the lawn of Â鶹ӰԺ's historic Chautauqua Park on Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of a conference titled "Listening to the West: Music in the Soul of a Region."