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CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny announced today that Joe Negler has donated $3.7 million to establish an endowed chair in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Negler also established the first endowed chair in the College of Music. "The Negler gift for endowed chairs allows a university such as ours the opportunity to attract, honor and retain some of the best teaching and research talent in the nation," according to Byyny. "That talent, in turn, attracts leading students to our campus."

Editors: Edwards has a series of CD-ROM charts detailing world energy supplies, world energy consumption and population projections. A videotape of Bartlett's lecture is available by calling (303) 492-4007. Two University of Colorado at Boulder experts who recently presented testimony on the nation's long-term energy supplies to two Congressional committees are awaiting the announcement of President Bush's energy proposal on May 17.

Robert Cranny has been appointed to the position of director of the Wardenburg Health Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs. The appointment is pending Chancellor Byyny's approval. Cranny has held the position on an interim basis for the past 16 months. He has been actively involved in health care management for 15 years, including six years at Wardenburg. He also is president of Arvada-Wheat Ridge Physical Therapy in Wheat Ridge, Colo.

The Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder has selected five journalists as the 2001-2002 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism. Starting next fall the fellows will study environmental science, policy, law and journalism for two semesters at the university and will work on individual research projects.

Local students were among the 4,043 students who received degrees May 11 during spring commencement at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The ceremony was held in Folsom Stadium on the CU-Boulder campus. The Chancellor's Recognition Award for students receiving all As in their college careers was given to Rebecca Prull of Broomfield, Colo., who received a bachelor's degree in environmental, population and organismic biology, and Tye Rattenbury of Littleton, Colo., who received a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics.

Jamal Ward has been appointed to the position of university counselor at CU-Boulder's Cultural Unity Center, according to Dale Trevino, director of the center. Ward has held the position on a temporary basis since last fall. The appointment has been approved by Chancellor Byyny and was effective immediately.

The scientific aspects of sound and air pressure will be explained when CU Wizard Michael Dubson presents his show "Boom! The Physics of Sound and Air Pressure," on Saturday, May 26, at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics, room G1B30. During the free hour-long show, Dubson, who is a senior instructor in the physics department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will implode a 50-gallon steel drum using air pressure, create a sonic boom with a bullwhip and stage a tug-of-war with the pressure of the atmosphere.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Colorado researchers have identified the protective protein "caps" that form the ends of all human chromosomes, a finding that may eventually have applications for cellular aging and human diseases.

Twenty-five journalists from the United States and Canada, along with two senior environmental policy advisers from Mongolia, are scheduled to attend the second annual Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment May 14-19 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The institute, hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Center for Environmental Journalism, is a week-long educational program for journalists who cover environmental issues.

The State Farm Fire and Casualty Insurance Co. and State Farm General Insurance Co. have donated $100,000 toward an endowed chair to honor University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Emeritus Gilbert F. White, known worldwide as the "father of floodplain management." Becky Turner of State Farm's regional office in Greeley presented the check in a May 2 ceremony at the CU-Boulder Natural Hazards Center. The CU Foundation is hoping to raise $3 million to endow the chair by White's 90th birthday on Nov. 26.