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Charles Wilkinson, a distinguished CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professor of law who is recognized as a champion of the American West through his decades of writing and legal work, will be the first featured speaker in a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ lecture series hosted at The Academy beginning Wednesday, Sept. 8. This fall, the series will highlight faculty from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Center of the American West (including its co-founders Wilkinson and Patricia Limerick) and the Natural Resources Law Center. All talks will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel at The Academy, located at 970 Aurora Ave. in Â鶹ӰԺ.

The prestigious Morris K. Udall Scholarship has been awarded to two undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ for their commitment to pursuing careers in environmental public policy, health care or native American tribal public policies. Jamie Hunt, 22, and Seth Peacock, 27, are two of the 75 Udall Scholars nationwide who will receive $5,000 to cover costs of tuition, fees, books and room and board for the 1999-2000 academic year.

David Hawkins, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, will deliver the main address at CUÂ’s commencement ceremony on Aug. 7. Hawkins retired in 1982 after a 35-year teaching career at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ during which he won numerous prestigious honors and awards. A year before his retirement he received a $300,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation, the so-called "genius grant," the first awarded to a CU faculty member.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the Residential Academic Program in Baker Hall are teaming up this fall to facilitate undergraduate participation in faculty research.

Fighting is far from over in that area of Eastern Europe generally referred to as the Balkans, according to Stephen Fischer-Galati, professor emeritus of history at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. Fischer-Galati labeled the recent conflict in Kosovo a "disaster" and said that he viewed the future in that region with "profound pessimism." The level of destruction inflicted by western air strikes has resulted in a non-functional economy shackled to an antiquated industrial system which could not hope to compete economically with other nations.

The work of two 1998-99 student groups will culminate within the span of a week as the scholars in the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ present their research discoveries in the 1999 Summer Colloquium. The presentations, with topics ranging from art history to molecular, cellular and developmental biology, will be held Thursday and Friday, July 29-30, from 9 a.m. to noon in Hale 270, and Aug. 5-6 in Duane Physics G1B20.

A team of research scientists working in the Rocky Mountains this summer hopes to find keys to unlock geological secrets buried deep underground for nearly two billion years. The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is among 14 American universities and one from Germany taking part in the project known as the Continental Dynamics -- Rocky Mountain Project, or CD-ROM.

Students from the state-wide Youth in Natural Resources program will participate in activities at both CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Mountain Research Station and the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL) on Wednesday, July 28. The students will begin the day by touring the Research Station site outside of Nederland and then visit campus for an admissions presentation and hands-on experiments at ITLL in the afternoon.

MEDIA ADVISORY WHO: University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty, staff and student volunteer gardeners who are participating in the Campus Garden Project. WHAT: The project is a partnership between CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and Community Food Share to grow food in former campus flowerbeds for needy families in Â鶹ӰԺ County. WHEN: Monday, July 26, at 10 a.m. WHERE: Directly south of the front door of the CU Recreation Center.

Alan Cass, regarded as a leading world authority on the life and legacy of big band leader Glenn Miller, will receive an honorary degree in recognition of his work from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. Cass, who built the Glenn Miller archive at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, will receive the Doctor of Humane Letters award at the commencement ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 7.