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Researchers at JILA, an internationally renowned research and teaching institute operated jointly by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Institute of Standards of Technology, have won federal funding expected to total $15 million over the next five years. The competitive National Science Foundation grant is the nation's largest in the field of atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics. It will be shared by 18 JILA faculty and will support more than 25 graduate students each year, said CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman of physics.

A group of 24 teachers from across the United States will wrap up a four-week institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities on "Perceiving the American West" on Friday, Aug. 3, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The middle and high school teachers spent the past month learning about the American West through lectures, discussions and field trips. Several CU-Boulder professors were involved in the program.

University of Colorado at Boulder alumnus H. Joe Smead has established an endowed chair in the department of aerospace engineering sciences in memory of A. Richard Seebass, the former aerospace professor, department chair and dean of engineering who died in December 2000.

In a unique funding arrangement, CU-Boulder's Porter Biosciences Building soon will be equipped with an energy-efficient heat recovery system funded in part by a private donation from Boulder residents Chuck and Patricia Palmer. The $300,000 system will be installed into the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems of the laboratory building. Porter Biosciences is typically one of the largest energy users on campus because it continually exhausts 100 percent of its conditioned air from the building. Typical buildings exhaust only about 15-25 percent.