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Local students were among the 4,943 students who received degrees May 9 during spring commencement ceremonies on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.

University of Colorado at Boulder English Professor Jeffrey Robinson has won the university's highest teaching and research honor, the Hazel Barnes Prize, for his work in the area of Romantic literature and poetics. Robinson holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Chicago and Brandeis University. He said his Hazel Barnes Prize, which carries a $20,000 award, is recognition of his 32-year career at CU-Boulder.

The conflicting opinions of Western water resource stakeholders are the centerpiece of a unique new summer course at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As part of "Western Issues: Science, Policy and Public Perception," students will meet with competing interests in the fight for control of the West's most precious resource. The students will then attempt to create solutions to water-related conflicts.

For the second consecutive year, students in the jazz studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder's College of Music have won three Down Beat Magazine Student Music Awards. CU-Boulder Jazz Ensemble I, a big band under the direction of Professor John Davis, was honored for outstanding performance. Pianist Andy Nevala won for his unique arrangement of the jazz standard "Autumn Leaves," and vibraphonist Greg Harris was cited for outstanding performance on his own original composition, "Switch." Nevala and Harris are students of Assistant Professor Chip Stephens.