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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and the University of Denver will receive $1.18 million to help future teachers use technology effectively in K-12 classrooms. The U.S. Department of Education grant will be combined with an additional $1 million from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, $170,000 from DU and $12,000 from the Â鶹ӰԺ Valley, Denver, Adams 12 Five Star and St. Vrain school districts. A major focus of the program will be on future teachers who are interested in working with low-income, high-need children.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Philosophy Elder Program of Colorado will host its next meeting on Wednesday, June 28, at 7:30 p.m., continuing the monthly series that explores a variety of enduring philosophical questions and problems. The meeting will be at The Academy, 970 Aurora Ave., in Â鶹ӰԺ. This monthÂ’s topic, "The Rationality of Religious Beliefs" will be led by philosophy Professor George Bealer. Local seniors and friends are invited to participate in the free program.

Keith Wilson, a junior at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, was recently awarded a $5,000 scholarship from The Lagrant Foundation of Los Angeles. Wilson is a graduate of Rangeview High School in Aurora. He was one of only 10 students from around the country to receive the prestigious award, presented at a June 14 reception hosted by the Times Mirror Foundation and held at the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times.

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will move its offices from Macky Auditorium and Norlin Library to the Armory Building at 1511 University Ave. in July. School offices will be closed July 7, 10 and 11. Beginning July 12 the deanÂ’s office will be located in Armory 119 and the main reception area in Armory 116. The student services area will be in 1B111, the public computer labs will be in 206A, 209 and 211, and the Campus Press will be located in 206B.

Middle school girls who are entering the seventh or eighth grade this fall are invited to explore how engineering, math and science affect their lives by attending a free Energy Education Workshop offered by the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

In a mock divorce trial created by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ’s Center of the American West, people representing ColoradoÂ’s urban and rural areas will argue their sides complete with a bailiff and a judge on Friday, June 30, in Idalia. The program will be held at the Route 36 Bar and Grill at 26375 U.S. Highway 36 in Idalia beginning at 8 p.m.

Mark your calendars and pull out your picnic baskets because the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is hosting "Picnic on the Quad," July 8, beginning at 3 p.m. in the historic Norlin Quadrangle. Free activities at the picnic will continue into the evening and include live music, hands-on science workshops for kids, ice-skating and ice cream, sidewalk chalk art projects and special visits from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Ralphie the buffalo and Will Shakespeare himself.

Margaret Murnane, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, is the winner of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship sometimes known as the "genius grant." She is the fourth CU-Â鶹ӰԺ faculty member to receive the prestigious award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago. Murnane was one of 25 recipients of this year's awards.

Nearly 100 underrepresented rural and minority high school students from Denver, Â鶹ӰԺ and St. Vrain Valley schools will get the chance to be engineering students at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ June 21-24 through an expansion of the popular Success Institute.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ researcher has been awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from The Cancer Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation of New York.