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The CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Alumni Association will recognize 10 outstanding individuals, alumni and CU faculty, at the 70th annual Alumni Awards Banquet on Tuesday, May 9. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the CU campus. A reception will follow at the CU Heritage Center. The recipients will be honored for their distinguished careers and exceptional contributions to CU and the community.

Lighting improvements are providing safer passage for CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ students and other residents and visitors on University Hill. The Public Service Co. of Colorado last month upgraded 36 streetlights from 70 watts to 150 watts and installed new lights on 16 existing poles. The improvements were made in areas extending from Broadway to Ninth Street and from University to Euclid Avenue. According to Mike Mansfield, university-city liaison and program coordinator, the lighting upgrades are a good example of cooperation between the city and the university on mutual goals.

In November 1999, CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ senior Sarah Blakeslee found herself in a place she never would have imagined. She was standing atop 18,900-foot Antisana Peak in Ecuador, part of an international science team studying a retreating South American glacier. To get there, she and several CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ graduate students and faculty members flew to Guayaquil, Ecuador, then took a nine-hour van ride to a 15,600-foot base camp on Antisana. There, members of the international team began ferrying hundreds of pounds of equipment to the summit.

Seven CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ students in the McNair Scholars Program came out on top this year in the oral presentation competition at the Rocky Mountain McNair Scholars Research Symposium and Graduate Education Conference held April 14-16. The fifth annual conference, sponsored by CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, Colorado State University, the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Wyoming, featured students from 28 institutions.