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Sixteen Boettcher Scholars at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder received enrichment grants this summer to conduct projects in locations ranging from campus laboratories to an aboriginal medical clinic in Australia. The Boettcher Scholarship is considered to be the most prestigious merit-based scholarship available to graduating high school seniors in the state. Forty Boettcher Scholars are selected annually to attend any of the 16 four-year accredited colleges and universities in Colorado, and all must be in the top 5 percent of their graduating high school class.

Editors: On July 25 at 1 p.m., reporters and photographers are invited to view the mammoth skull and tour the Lamb Spring site, beginning at the Roxborough State Park visitor center. Researchers from CU-Boulder and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and representatives from the Colorado Historical Society and the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board will attend. For more information and directions to the visitor center call graduate student Heidi Quist at (303) 870-4161.

Tim Palmer of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in England will address the value of ensemble forecast techniques in a free talk on Friday, July 19, at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. Palmer's talk, "Predicting Weather and Climate: A Risky Business," will give examples of ensemble forecasting techniques and demonstrate their applications in crisis weather events such as flooding.

Robert T. Craig, professor and department chair of communication at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, will become president-elect of the International Communication Association at its 52nd annual conference convening in Seoul, Korea, July 15-19.

The CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business has appointed Anne Sandoe-Thorp as director of MBA admissions and marketing. In this role, Sandoe-Thorp will spearhead marketing, corporate outreach, recruitment and admissions for both the full-time and Professional MBA programs. Sandoe-Thorp spent the last 17 years working at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, culminating in her position as director of operations for Duke Corporate Education. Previously she was the assistant dean and director of MBA programs.

The Environmental Protection Agency has honored Kathryn Mutz of the CU-Boulder Natural Resources Law Center with the agency's Environmental Achievement Award. Mutz is a senior research associate, lawyer and staff member at the center. The award was presented by Michael Gaydosh, deputy to the assistant regional administrator of enforcement, compliance and environmental justice, during the center's annual June conference.

At least three reservoirs likely will be contaminated by erosion in areas burned by this season's record wildfires, according to a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder researcher. The South Platte watershed and Cheesman Reservoir, one of Denver's important water sources, will be affected by erosion from the Hayman fire, while the Missionary Ridge fire could affect the Vallecito and Lemon reservoirs, according to John Gartner, a research assistant at CU-Boulder's Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research.

The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial treat, will be visible in night skies throughout Colorado in early August. The natural fireworks will be most active Aug. 9-15, peaking in the early morning hours of Aug. 13 when, just after midnight, between 80 to 200 meteors per hour could be visible, according to experts at Fiske Planetarium at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder.

Examples of physics concepts that can all be found in the average kitchen will be explored during the July 24 lecture "Physics at the Breakfast Table" at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. Sidney Nagel, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, will present the free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20 on the CU-Boulder campus.

Note to Editors: ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ will debate Friday, July 19, at 1 p.m. in room E155 of the Bruce Curtis Museum Collections Building, located near the intersection of Broadway and College Avenue on the CU-Boulder campus. High school students have converged this week at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder for a summer philosophy camp that examines the balance between personal freedom and state security.