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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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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.

The number of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder students who were summarily suspended following a Sept. 8 disturbance on University Hill has been revised from four to three, the Office of Judicial Affairs announced today. The revision was made because of a case of mistaken identity. A woman who was arrested in connection with the disturbance had the same first and last name as a CU-Boulder student. The CU-Boulder student was not involved in the disturbance.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at BoulderÂ’s astrophysical and planetary sciences department, traditionally ranked as one of the finest in the nation, is offering an undergraduate astronomy degree for the first time beginning this fall.

Upon receiving additional information from the Boulder Police Department, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder has summarily suspended two more students following a party last night in the University Hill area that Boulder police broke up at about 12:30 a.m. this morning. The action was taken by the CU-Boulder Judicial Affairs office, said Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs. Two students were summarily suspended earlier today by the university for their roles in the disturbance.