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Chile, Azerbaijan and Germany are among the destinations where four new faculty Fulbright Scholars and Fellows from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will teach and conduct research in 2005 and 2006. Professor Thomas Riis, Associate Professor Jeff Frykholm and instructors Anne Bliss and Doug Cosper have been named Fulbright winners from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ. The faculty grants are announced at different times through the year and a complete list of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ faculty Fulbrights will become available in the fall.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Marc Bekoff has been named winner of the Bank One Colorado Corporation 2004 Faculty Community Service Award for exceptional humanitarian and civic service. A professor in CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's ecology and evolutionary biology department, Bekoff is well known in the scientific world for his studies of animal behavior, animal cognition and behavioral ecology. He is recognized in the Â鶹ӰԺ community and beyond for outreach and service to both children and adults on environmental issues, including animal awareness and animal rights.

With their degrees in hand and commencement over, some newly minted college graduates are missing something -- a job. Not being gainfully employed shortly after graduation is not unusual, but also shouldn't be taken lightly, according to Lisa Severy, director of Career Services at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

Albert Einstein predicted it in 1924 but it wasn't until 1995 that scientists in a Â鶹ӰԺ, Colo., laboratory were able to chill atoms to almost absolute zero and create a strange new form of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate. Now approaching its 10th anniversary, the discovery launched a new field of atomic physics that has spawned about 4,000 scientific papers and a treasure-trove of scientific discoveries. The original apparatus that made the Â鶹ӰԺ discovery is now at the Smithsonian Institution.

A group of Colorado men went to bed in the name of science recently as part of a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study probing ways to stem muscle degeneration in both weightless astronauts and earthbound people.

Five journalists have been selected as 2005-06 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. The fellowships are hosted by the Center for Environmental Journalism and funded through a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The nine-month program offers mid-career journalists an opportunity to deepen their understanding of environmental issues and policy through coursework, seminars and field trips in the region. Following are the new Ted Scripps Fellows:

Â鶹ӰԺ 13,000 students and adults from around the world will converge on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus to attend the 26th annual Odyssey of the Mind World Finals May 21-24. Participants will come from throughout the United States and about 20 other countries including China, Germany, Poland and Kazakhstan. The majority of attendees will stay on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus and in local hotels.

Crystal Olin, a junior environmental design major at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been named a 2005 Morris K. Udall Scholar in honor of her academic excellence and commitment to the environment. Olin will receive $5,000 and will travel to Tucson, Ariz., this summer to meet with other Udall Scholars, policy makers and leaders in environmental fields. She is one of only 81 students chosen for the scholarship out of 436 candidates nominated by 211 colleges and universities.

The 2005 freshman class at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is shaping up to be smaller than last year but bigger than first projected. New freshmen are projected to total about 4,900, though the actual number for fall 2005 will not be known until census in mid-September. The final tally of applications this spring came to 17,149, a 12 percent drop from 19,334 in 2004.

The speed of objects, light and sound will be on display May 21 during the CU Wizards show titled "Speed," presented by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ adjoint physics Professor Eric Cornell. The free public presentation begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Duane Physics building, room G1B30, on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. Cornell will measure different types of speed during an hour-long show that is intended primarily for students in grades five through nine.