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Music composed for tabla and computer has earned University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor Michael Theodore the first annual Eric Siday Musical Creativity Award from the International Computer Music Association. "Goatsong, for Tabla Drums and Computer" was selected from more than 400 submissions to the 2002 ICMA Festival and Conference in Göteborg, Sweden. Theodore, who teaches classes in music composition and technology at the CU-Boulder College of Music, received a $2,300 prize. His piece was performed for a large audience at the festival.

Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, distinguished professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has launched a new science education project using part of his Nobel Prize money. The Physics Education Technology Project, or PhET, is supported by the Kavli Institute of Oxnard, Calif., the National Science Foundation, CU-Boulder and the Nobel Prize award.

Fulbright grant winners from universities in Morocco and Turkey are conducting research at the University of Colorado at Boulder while five CU-Boulder faculty winners are in Africa, Asia and Europe to teach and do research. Provost Phil DiStefano said the CU-Boulder faculty, "continue to be recognized throughout the world for their academic expertise, and it is also noteworthy that faculty from other countries want to conduct their research at our campus."

The Student Academic Services Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder has started a new Pre-Health Program available to SASC-eligible students interested in the health sciences field.