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Keith Wilson, a junior at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, was recently awarded a $5,000 scholarship from The Lagrant Foundation of Los Angeles. Wilson is a graduate of Rangeview High School in Aurora. He was one of only 10 students from around the country to receive the prestigious award, presented at a June 14 reception hosted by the Times Mirror Foundation and held at the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times.

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder will move its offices from Macky Auditorium and Norlin Library to the Armory Building at 1511 University Ave. in July. School offices will be closed July 7, 10 and 11. Beginning July 12 the deanÂ’s office will be located in Armory 119 and the main reception area in Armory 116. The student services area will be in 1B111, the public computer labs will be in 206A, 209 and 211, and the Campus Press will be located in 206B.

Middle school girls who are entering the seventh or eighth grade this fall are invited to explore how engineering, math and science affect their lives by attending a free Energy Education Workshop offered by the Women in Engineering Program at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder.

In a mock divorce trial created by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at BoulderÂ’s Center of the American West, people representing ColoradoÂ’s urban and rural areas will argue their sides complete with a bailiff and a judge on Friday, June 30, in Idalia. The program will be held at the Route 36 Bar and Grill at 26375 U.S. Highway 36 in Idalia beginning at 8 p.m.

Mark your calendars and pull out your picnic baskets because the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder is hosting "Picnic on the Quad," July 8, beginning at 3 p.m. in the historic Norlin Quadrangle. Free activities at the picnic will continue into the evening and include live music, hands-on science workshops for kids, ice-skating and ice cream, sidewalk chalk art projects and special visits from CU-BoulderÂ’s Ralphie the buffalo and Will Shakespeare himself.

Margaret Murnane, a professor of physics at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, is the winner of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship sometimes known as the "genius grant." She is the fourth CU-Boulder faculty member to receive the prestigious award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago. Murnane was one of 25 recipients of this year's awards.

Nearly 100 underrepresented rural and minority high school students from Denver, Boulder and St. Vrain Valley schools will get the chance to be engineering students at CU-Boulder June 21-24 through an expansion of the popular Success Institute.

A ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder researcher has been awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from The Cancer Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation of New York.

High school students from throughout Colorado will participate in CU-BoulderÂ’s Business Leadership Program June 11-17, sponsored by the College of Business and local corporations. The free program offers 30 outstanding minority students the opportunity to get a head start on their college careers.

Katy Garmany will present her final live astronomy show at Fiske Planetarium June 16 ending a nine-year stay as director of the planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder and 26 years on campus. In July, Garmany will begin a new position at Columbia UniversityÂ’s Biosphere 2 astronomy program in Tucson, Ariz., where she will be one of three full-time faculty teaching a variety of astronomy courses and supervising observation projects for a class of about 25 students.