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Eight of the country's top Latino high school graduates will receive college grants from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation during a prestigious national ceremony on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus. The foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization, will hold its annual National Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards Ceremony at Folsom Field on Thursday, June 21. In addition to the students, the foundation will honor an outstanding high school educator and two up-and-coming Hollywood stars.

A special delegation of University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ community members will lay a wreath of flowers at the grave of Andrew J. Macky in Columbia Pioneer Cemetery at Ninth and Pleasant streets in Â鶹ӰԺ on Monday, June 11. The group will be led by CU Regent Cindy Carlisle, who represents Colorado's 2nd Congressional District on the nine-member elected board. The group will lay the flowers at Macky's grave at 1 p.m. Members of the media, including photographers, are invited to cover the event.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has announced four candidates for the position of director of the CU Museum.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has announced three semifinalists for the position of vice chancellor for diversity, equity and community engagement to fill the newly created position.

NASA astronaut and CU-Â鶹ӰԺ alumnus Steve Swanson will be packing a black and gold CU flag sporting a Ralphie-the-Buffalo logo when the space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from Florida for the International Space Station on Friday, June 8.

Screenwriter and playwright Heather Hach, a 1993 graduate of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ School of Journalism and Mass Communication, accepts her success in film and theater writing with a mixture of awe and humility. Hach penned the book for "Legally Blonde, The Musical" a first-time playwriting experience that garnered her a Tony Award, Broadway's highest accolade for theater professionals. CBS will air the 61st annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10, and Hach plans to attend.

An environmental sensing instrument developed by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Center for Environmental Technology will be flown over Oklahoma several times in June as part of a major field study of climate and weather sponsored by the Department of Energy.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ researchers will scan Venus during a spacecraft flyby this week using an $8.7 million instrument they designed and built for NASA's MESSENGER Mission, launched in 2004 and speeding toward Mercury.

A group of prominent University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ professors will discuss immigration's impact on the U.S. economy, national security and cultural identity during an upcoming summer Alumni Association event. The association's second annual Alumni College, open to CU-Â鶹ӰԺ alumni and the public, will take place on Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16. Panelists will address the issue of "Immigration: American Identity, Prosperity and National Security" during four panel sessions.

The mysteries of black holes, including what it would be like to fall into one, will be explored during two June shows at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Fiske Planetarium. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Andrew Hamilton will present “Black Holes,” a show intended for a general audience, on June 15 at 8 p.m. On June 16 at 9:30 a.m. he will present the CU Wizards show “Black Holes,” which is geared toward students in grades five through nine. Both shows will be in the planetarium.