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The University of Colorado at Boulder will confer 1,981 degrees on Friday, Dec. 20, during the winter commencement ceremony in the Coors Events/Conference Center. The commencement ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. and last about an hour. Guests are expected to be in their seats by 9:10 a.m. and early arrival is strongly suggested due to possible traffic delays. The university ceremony is free and open to the public and no tickets are required.

Two University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have received prestigious 2002 Fellowship awards from the American Geophysical Union. Roger Bilham, a CU-Boulder geography professor at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, and David Fahey, a CIRES research associate, both were named fellows. CIRES is a joint center of CU-Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Charles Goeldner, emeritus professor of tourism and marketing at the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business, has received the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators' Martin Oppermann Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement. The worldwide organization consists of travel and tourism educators from numerous countries including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Great Britain, Korea, China and Taiwan.

Chancellor Richard L. Byyny today announced a basic outline for the University of Colorado at Boulder's $11 million general fund budget cut to cover revenue shortfalls for fiscal year 2003.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business will present its 38th annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook Forum at 1:15 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 16, at the Denver Marriott City Center. The event at 18th and California streets is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. The comprehensive state outlook features trends and forecasts prepared by more than 80 key business, government and industry professionals and is compiled by the Business Research Division at the Leeds School of Business.

A new study led by University of Colorado at Boulder researchers indicates Mars has been primarily a cold, dry planet following its formation some 4 billion years ago, making the possibility of the evolution of life there challenging at best. Led by CU-Boulder doctoral candidate Teresa Segura and her adviser, Professor Owen B. Toon, the team used Mars photos and computer models to show that large asteroids or comets hit the planet some 3.5 billion years ago. These impacts apparently occurred about the time major river channels were formed on the Red Planet, said Segura.

The Office of Diversity and Equity at the University of Colorado at Boulder has selected six faculty recipients of two fellowship programs for the fall semester, according to Associate Vice Chancellor Ofelia Miramontes. There are four winners of the Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching grants and two winners of the Big 12 Faculty Fellowships. IMPART awardees are Asuncion Horno-Delgado of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, Suzanne Magnanini of French and Italian and Kay Miller and Yumi Janairo Roth, both of fine arts.

The CU-Boulder Office of News Services is forwarding this release, received today from the Modern Language Association of America. New York, NY - November 27, 2002 - The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its ninth annual Prize for a First Book to Bruce W. Holsinger, assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, for "Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegaard of Bingen to Chaucer," published by Stanford University Press.

When the producers of "Gangs of New York," the new Martin Scorsese blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio, needed to figure out what music was appropriate for the movie's setting in 1800s New York City, they called the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. So when the movie opens Dec. 20, CU-Boulder College of Music Professor Tom Riis, who provided the answers, will be in a theater listening closely and watching for a line in the end credits thanking the University of Colorado Libraries.

Six students, including a nontraditional student age 30 or older, will receive scholarship awards of $1,000 or $500 courtesy of the Center for Educational and Career Transition at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Undergraduate student Christina Zigler won a $1,000 scholarship and fellow undergraduates Tawnya Parker and Melissa Spannuth received scholarships for $500. Graduate students Manoela Borges and Maria Tsukernik and nontraditional student Katalin Lustyik all received $1,000 scholarships.