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Some of AmericaÂ’s best-known "pure abstractionists" will be featured in a unique art exhibit, "Geometric Abstraction: Selections From the Colorado Collection," on display at the Ft. Lupton Public Library, part of Ft. Lupton High School, from Feb. 22 through March 22. The exhibit is organized and circulated by the CU Art Galleries at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder spring blood drive will be held on Feb. 23, 24 and 25 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center west ballroom. Donors may sign up for an appointment by coming to the UMC Loggia Feb. 17, 18, 19 and 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by calling 303-492-5473 through Feb. 22 at noon. Walk-ins will be accepted. Donors should be in good health, weigh at least 110 pounds and not be in one of the at-risk behavior groups. They should eat within four hours of donating and drink lots of fluids before and after donating.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder aerospace engineering Professor Martin Mikulas Jr. has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, joining eight other faculty from the campus who have been elected since the academy's formation in 1962. Peter Teets, president of Lockheed Martin and a 1963 alumnus of the College of Engineering at CU-Boulder, also was elected to NAE, the academy announced Feb. 16.

NASA's Office of Space Science has selected a group of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder researchers to spend three years mapping the polar ice on Mars using satellite data.

Professor Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, one of the world's top scientists on global change and the global warming debate, will speak at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder Feb. 17. Schneider's talk will focus on the contrasting goals of the media, politicians and scientists in defining the probable extent and outcome of global climate change.

Daniel Baker, director of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will give a talk Feb. 17 on a satellite under construction that will study the Van Allen radiation belts girdling Earth. The $12.8 million project, known as the Inner Magnetosphere Explorer, or IMEX, will be designed, built and operated by LASP in cooperation with the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at BoulderÂ’s department of Spanish and Portuguese has been recognized by a national newsletter for placing all of its Ph.D. graduates during the 1996-97 reporting period in academic, tenure-track positions. The 100 percent placement figure contrasts sharply with the national average of 59 percent cited by the Modern Language Association Census of Ph.D. Placement.

Evi Nemeth, associate professor of computer science at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, has been named one of the Top 25 Women on the Web by a San Francisco organization that supports and encourages women in the field of high technology. Nemeth, who has been on the CU-Boulder faculty since 1980, received the award Jan. 20 in San Francisco at the second annual awards ceremony of San Francisco Women on the Web.

Andrew Hamilton, who will present the popular program "Black Holes and Relativity," at Fiske Planetarium, says the show was created partly by accident. The program is the second in a series of live public astronomy shows to be held at Fiske Planetarium at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ this semester. "Black Holes" is set for Tuesday, Feb. 16, and Friday, Feb. 19, at 7:30 p.m. It will last about an hour and a half.

Several members of the Montrose community will have feature roles to play in the Urban-Rural Divorce in the American West program that will be presented at the Montrose County Judicial Center on Friday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. Presented by the Center of the American West at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, the mock trial will explore the complex relationship between urban and rural interests in the West. The program, which is free and open to the public, is being brought to Montrose as part of the CU in Residence series of community education offerings.