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A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ researcher has won a $50,000 federal seed grant for work that could one day lead to the development of clinically useful and less invasive ways of studying the brain activity of children who wear implanted hearing devices. Such research could help doctors and researchers gain a greater understanding of how children acquire hearing and language skills.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Norman Pace has been awarded the 2007 Abbott-American Society for Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award, the society's highest honor, for his groundbreaking research in microbial ecology.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty member $4.2 million in a cooperative agreement over five years to lead a national effort to model the changing face of the Earth's surface.

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation news release The Bonfils-Stanton Foundation announced today the winners of three statewide awards for lifetime achievements in Arts and Humanities, Community Service and Science and Medicine. The Awards will be presented by Foundation chairman J. Landis Martin at a luncheon on Wednesday, May 2, at the Westin Tabor Center in Denver. Often called "Colorado's Nobels," the Bonfils-Stanton Awards will be presented to: o John D. Anderson, renowned architect and pioneer in the field of sustainable design (Arts and Humanities)

Two University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ physics professors have been elected to two of the most prestigious national academies for scientists. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ physics Professor Noel Clark was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and Deborah Jin, an adjoint associate professor of physics at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Alumni Association will honor 12 outstanding members of the campus community at the 77th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony on May 9. The public is invited to attend the free event at 7 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus, which also will commemorate the 125th anniversary of the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Alumni Association.

A woman who made civil rights history as one of nine African-American students to attend an all-white Little Rock, Ark., high school in 1957 against the wishes of anti-integration demonstrators will deliver a graduation address at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ May 10.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's extensive and well-known archive of 1930s and 1940s big band-era great Glenn Miller just got better with the addition of a major collection of artifacts from the estate of the late Richard C. March. A longtime member of the Glenn Miller Society in England, March's collection includes numerous reels of Miller recordings, as well as books, manuscripts, records, photographs and posters of the famed musician. March died in November 2005.

In a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ physics lab recently, Martha-Elizabeth "Marty" Baylor popped a pair of rose-colored goggles over her eyes and lowered her head under the glass of a laser system she uses to conduct optical research. Among other challenges, Baylor, a JILA research assistant and graduate student, is working on a riddle scientists call the "cocktail party problem."

Two University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ professors have been awarded Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for 2007 and a third has received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. The Guggenheim recipients are Professor Paul Kroll of the East Asian languages and civilizations department and Professor Mark Winey of the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department. Kroll and Winey were among 189 fellows nationwide selected from more than 2,800 applicants.