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Barring the common late afternoon thunderstorms of June, Coloradans will get a rare chance to see the moon slide across the face of the sun during a partial solar eclipse on June 10. Solar eclipses usually occur twice a year, but are not always visible from the United States, according to experts at Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In fact, the next chance to see a solar eclipse in Colorado won't be until May 20, 2012, according to Robert Stoller, operations manager at Fiske Planetarium.

Alumni of the U.S. Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School will reunite at the University of Colorado at Boulder 60 years to the month after the Japanese Language School was moved to Boulder in 1942. Attendees will be welcomed at a luncheon on Friday, June 7, where a color guard will present the flag. The flag will be retired at the conclusion of the reunion Sunday, June 9. A plaque honoring the instructors and graduates of the school will be dedicated in the University Memorial Center at 4:30 p.m. on June 7. The dedication is free and open to the public.

Editors: Trenching will begin this morning on state land at the northeast corner of Rampart Range Road and Village Circle East, adjacent to the Roxborough Village East development. Field activities begin Thursday and continue for an estimated two weeks.

The University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder has announced the addition of Peggy L. Tucker to its business division as a senior accountant. Tucker will oversee purchasing and accounts payable and receivable and will supervise three staff members. She will report to Business Manager Mary E. Covell. Tucker has worked in accounting positions at CU-Boulder since 1986 and is an expert in purchasing. She graduated from CU-Boulder with a degree in psychology in 1985.

University of Colorado at Boulder marketing Professor Paul Herr has been elected president of the Society for Consumer Psychology. The society, a division of the American Psychological Association, is the premier organization for academics engaged in the study of marketing and consumer psychology. Membership is comprised of marketing practitioners and research scholars from top universities. He was named president-elect of the organization in 2001.

The CU Parents Association at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a series of orientation dinners for parents of incoming students in June and July at the University Club. The dinners coincide with orientation sessions for new freshmen and transfer students and will provide opportunities for new CU-Boulder parents to become acquainted with the association's board members, the Office of Parent Relations and staff from student affairs programs and services.

An anonymous donor has contributed 1,500 classical compact discs to the University of Colorado at Boulder's Music Library, increasing the library's CD collection by more than 12 percent. The CDs are primarily piano music and will make the library's holdings of recorded classical piano music one of the most complete in the country. The gift will be known as the Ian Gindes Collection, in honor of a former student of the donor.

Chancellor Richard Byyny of the University of Colorado at Boulder and President Michael Lomax of Dillard University in New Orleans have announced that the two schools are forging a new educational technology partnership in conjunction with CU-Boulder's ATLAS initiative. The two institutions each bring significant strengths and aspirations to the project, according to Bobby Schnabel, associate vice chancellor for academic and campus technology and the faculty director for ATLAS, the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society.

Two summer sessions of The Boulder Campus Smoking Cessation Program, the only tobacco cessation program in Boulder County, will be offered at the University of Colorado at Boulder beginning June 6 and June 10. "The classes we offer have a higher success rate than most other tobacco cessation programs," said Margaret Resch, director of the Employee Wellness Program at CU-Boulder.

Editors: Photo scans of the two sites are available by calling (303) 492-3114. Two groups of students from the University of Colorado at Boulder are now in Utah and New Mexico studying ancient Pueblo ruins as part of a larger effort to understand the fate of the Four Corners Anasazi people after A.D. 1100.