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"Student Neighborhoods: Breaking the Cycles of Violence and Destruction," a community speakout for University of Colorado at Boulder students and city residents, will be held at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house, 890 11th St., from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19.

The National Science Foundation announced today its first grants under the agencyÂ’s new $90 million Information Technology Research initiative, which included more than $6 million to the University of Colorado at Boulder. The awards are designed to spur fundamental research and innovative applications in information technology. A total of 210 projects were selected from more than 1,400 proposals. The selected proposals will promote information technology driven science and engineering, of growing importance to the economy.

Editors: In most cases, reporters can arrange meetings with these business leaders by calling Professor John Hess at (303) 492-7800. Top executives from Hertz Corp., Seagate Technologies, Estee Lauder and 10 other leading companies will discuss lessons learned from their successful business careers with University of Colorado at Boulder students at lectures throughout the fall semester. John Hess, a professor of marketing at the CU-Boulder College of Business, invites highly successful CEOs and entrepreneurs to speak as part of his Profiles in American Enterprise course.

CU Law School Alumnus James E. Scarboro of Boulder, class of 1970, has been named the 2000 recipient of The William Lee Knous Award, which is presented annually to a distinguished graduate of the law school. The award will be presented to Scarboro on Saturday, Sept. 16, during the annual CU-Boulder School of Law fall festivities. The award was established in memory of former governor, federal judge, statesman and alumnus William Lee Knous.

A powerful X-ray telescope successfully tested by University of Colorado at Boulder and NASA scientists is expected to exceed the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope by 300,000 times, allowing astrophysicists to peer down the mouths of voracious black holes.

Richard Kraft, a University of Colorado at Boulder professor of education and director of the ChancellorÂ’s Leadership Residential Academic Program in Williams Village was recently honored with an international educator award. Professor Kraft received the International Council on Education for TeachingÂ’s "Outstanding International Teacher Educator Frank H. Klassen Award" at the groupÂ’s annual meeting of 500 delegates in Windhoek, Republic of Namibia, in July.

Editors: Werner Herzog will speak in a public forum in Benson Earth Sciences Building, Thursday, Sept. 21, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., in room 180. He also will speak at a public showing of two of his films, Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in Muenzinger Auditorium. World-renowned German film director Werner Herzog will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder campus Sept. 19-21 as a guest of the "World Affairs Athenaeum" program.

CU Law School Alumnus James E. Scarboro of Boulder, class of 1970, has been named the 2000 recipient of The William Lee Knous Award, which is presented annually to a distinguished graduate of the law school. The award will be presented to Scarboro on Saturday, Sept. 16, during the annual CU-Boulder School of Law fall festivities. The award was established in memory of former governor, federal judge, statesman and alumnus William Lee Knous.

Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded $743,000 to the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication for a research project on media, religion and culture. Acting Dean Stewart Hoover and Research Associate Lynn Schofield Clark are the co-principal investigators of the project, which is one of the largest interview-based efforts to study media use in the family in the country. The grant will allow the two faculty members to continue their research.

CALENDAR ITEM Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder will explore the dynamics of the solar system and the way it was shaped by millions of collisions during "Cosmic Collisions and Our Solar System," Friday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium. The pre-recorded show travels back in time to the beginning of the solar system when devastating impacts of asteroids, comets and millions of chunks of floating debris constantly reworked the surfaces of the planets.