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General Electric has donated almost $74,000 to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder as part of the GE Fund's Corporate Alumni Program, Chancellor Richard Byyny announced today. General Electric employees, retirees and directors, who are alumni of CU-Boulder, participate in the program each year. The GE Fund matches alumni donations dollar for dollar.

Editors: Photographs of musicians are available in print and digital versions by calling (303) 492-4007. A complete schedule of events is posted at www.centerwest.org/music . Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tish Hinojosa and the Hot Club of Cowtown will be among the musicians giving free performances on the lawn of Boulder's historic Chautauqua Park on Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of a conference titled "Listening to the West: Music in the Soul of a Region."

The great American physicist Richard FeynmanÂ’s genius for simplifying quantum mechanics through a set of simple pictures will come to life during a July 24 lecture at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. Steven Girvin, distinguished physics professor at Indiana University at Bloomington and a co-founder and participating faculty member of a summer physics institute at CU-Boulder, will present the lecture "Mr. FeynmanÂ’s Quantum Mechanics: A Field Guide for Curious Characters" at 7:30 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20 on the CU-Boulder campus.

The CU Heritage Center is celebrating the arrival of a rare lunar specimen on campus this spring with a special "Moon Madness" Activity Day for families on Sunday, July 16, from 1 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. Activities will include a "Kids in Space" show at CU's Fiske Planetarium and a walk through CU's Scale Model Solar System guided by Professor Mike Shull of the astrophysical and planetary science department, followed by a program of "hands-on" activities at the CU Heritage Center. While at the Heritage Center, participants will be able to view the moon rock.

A small layer of dust suspended several feet above the moonÂ’s surface that was first photographed by the Lunar Surveyor spacecraft in the 1960s and later observed by Apollo astronauts has been a puzzle to some planetary scientists. But a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder research team is on the verge of explaining the odd dust phenomenon, which also may occur on asteroids, the rings of planets and even around spacecraft.

Two new programs at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder designed to support the campusÂ’s Building Community initiative, encourage networking and increase staff awareness of CU-Boulder's role in the four-campus system will begin in September. An intensive awareness-building program, called Boulder Campus Perspective, was piloted last spring and will consist of six half-day sessions scheduled from September through December. A companion program, called University Perspective, is being launched as a pilot this fall to complement the Boulder Campus Perspective.

Top minority MBA students from around the country will attend the ninth annual ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder Andersen Consulting Leadership Seminar July 12-16. The seminar is one of the nationÂ’s most comprehensive forums for MBA students to create solutions to e-business problems, develop leadership skills and network with peers, respected academics and business leaders.

More than 800 people are expected to attend the 20th anniversary celebration of CU Upward Bound July 28 in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. The federally funded program provides qualifying high school students living on or near American Indian reservations the opportunity to experience a college atmosphere before they graduate from high school. More than 1,000 students have participated in the CU-Boulder program.

Note: Seven students who were selected by the NACME Vanguard Program to enter CU-BoulderÂ’s engineering college this fall are on campus through July 14, participating in the Summer Bridge experience. Interviews with the students can be arranged by contacting David Aragon at (303) 492-2944. Hector Moreno, a graduate of North High School in Denver, will be the first in his family to go to college when he enrolls in CU-BoulderÂ’s College of Engineering and Applied Science this fall.

CU-Boulder College of Business Dean Steven Manaster has appointed Professor Richard Wobbekind as associate dean of external relations, pending approval by the Board of Regents at their Aug. 3 meeting. Wobbekind will continue to serve in his current role as director of the collegeÂ’s Business Research Division. "RichÂ’s expertise with state and local businesses will help us forge important partnerships with these constituencies," said Manaster. "He will be instrumental in promoting our outreach programs and building relationships with companies throughout the state."