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It’s a good time to be graduating with a degree in business – especially in Colorado. "As the job market goes, this is as good as it gets," said Ann Stringfellow, director of career development and employer relations at the College of Business and Administration at CU-Boulder. Stringfellow says local and national job prospects are plentiful for both graduate and undergraduate business students.

Professor J. Dennis Hynes has received the 1997-98 University of Colorado School of Law Excellence in Teaching Award. Hynes was selected by the law student body "in appreciation of the outstanding and exceptional effort to enhance studentsÂ’ educational experience." Hynes has been a law instructor at CU-Boulder since 1970 and specializes in agency and partnership law, contract law and legal history. This year he taught the basic courses in the law of contracts to entering students and the advanced course in agency and partnership law.

Adult literacy students in the city of Boulder’s "Learning to Read" program are learning more than reading and writing this spring – they’re learning to send electronic mail and log onto the Internet as well. A new service-learning project of the linguistics department at the University of Colorado at Boulder pairs CU-Boulder undergraduates with adult literacy students, augmenting the assistance provided by their regularly assigned tutors.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a series of events during the fourteenth National Science and Technology Week from April 27 to May 2. This yearÂ’s theme is "Polar Connections: Exploring the WorldÂ’s Natural Laboratories." The weekÂ’s purpose is to "engage the American public in the spirit of learning and adventure that is the hallmark of science and engineering." It is a major outreach effort by the National Science Foundation. Public lectures for general audiences will be held April 27 through April 29 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Duane Physics G020.