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Five outstanding members of the CU-Boulder campus, including students, faculty and staff, have been selected to receive the spring semester Building Community Recognition Awards. The awards, sponsored by the Building Community Committee, are given to campus members who show exceptional involvement, commitment and dedication to making the Boulder campus a more welcoming community. The honorees are:

The Society for Creative Anachronism will provide a taste of the Middle Ages in an evening of sword-fighting, romantic chivalry, medieval music and dance, and medieval arts and crafts at the CU-Boulder Engineering Quadrangle Courtyard on Friday, April 21, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

China, the most populous nation in the world with more than 1.3 billion people and a history stretching back 3,500 years, has become an increasingly significant force in the world. ItÂ’s a nation just beginning to flex its economic and global muscle. But itÂ’s also a very complex nation facing problems, many of which receive little or no attention outside its borders, according to University of Colorado professors Timothy Weston and Lionel Jensen, co-editors of the book "China Beyond the Headlines," published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Delbert Elliott, professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been appointed scientific editor for the U.S. Surgeon General's Report to the Nation on Youth Violence. Elliott, a nationally recognized authority on violence prevention, will be among the authors of the report and also will be responsible for editing the report for scientific quality and merit. The report is due out at the end of the year.