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The first public hearing on six proposed redevelopment plans for the World Trade Center site will be held July 20 in New York City, but University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ architecture instructor Scott Sworts predicts that community groups and city officials involved with the redevelopment won't give approval of the plans now on the table. The proposals unveiled by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. on July 16 call for replacing all of the 11 million square feet of lost office space along with a 600,000-square-foot shopping mall and an 800-room hotel.

Despite differing opinions on the topic, Colorado's monsoon season is already underway, according to Klaus Wolter, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. In fact, Wolter believes the Southwest monsoon began early this year. The monsoon season, which typically starts around the middle of July in Colorado, actually began at the beginning of the month, said Wolter, a researcher with the Climate Diagnostics Center, part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has generated a laser-like light beam at super-short wavelengths that could make it possible to peer into single cells and to produce computer chips with features more than 1,000 times finer than the thickness of a human hair.

Sixteen Boettcher Scholars at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ received enrichment grants this summer to conduct projects in locations ranging from campus laboratories to an aboriginal medical clinic in Australia. The Boettcher Scholarship is considered to be the most prestigious merit-based scholarship available to graduating high school seniors in the state. Forty Boettcher Scholars are selected annually to attend any of the 16 four-year accredited colleges and universities in Colorado, and all must be in the top 5 percent of their graduating high school class.

Editors: On July 25 at 1 p.m., reporters and photographers are invited to view the mammoth skull and tour the Lamb Spring site, beginning at the Roxborough State Park visitor center. Researchers from CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and representatives from the Colorado Historical Society and the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board will attend. For more information and directions to the visitor center call graduate student Heidi Quist at (303) 870-4161.

Tim Palmer of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in England will address the value of ensemble forecast techniques in a free talk on Friday, July 19, at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. Palmer's talk, "Predicting Weather and Climate: A Risky Business," will give examples of ensemble forecasting techniques and demonstrate their applications in crisis weather events such as flooding.

Robert T. Craig, professor and department chair of communication at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, will become president-elect of the International Communication Association at its 52nd annual conference convening in Seoul, Korea, July 15-19.

The CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Leeds School of Business has appointed Anne Sandoe-Thorp as director of MBA admissions and marketing. In this role, Sandoe-Thorp will spearhead marketing, corporate outreach, recruitment and admissions for both the full-time and Professional MBA programs. Sandoe-Thorp spent the last 17 years working at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, culminating in her position as director of operations for Duke Corporate Education. Previously she was the assistant dean and director of MBA programs.

The Environmental Protection Agency has honored Kathryn Mutz of the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Natural Resources Law Center with the agency's Environmental Achievement Award. Mutz is a senior research associate, lawyer and staff member at the center. The award was presented by Michael Gaydosh, deputy to the assistant regional administrator of enforcement, compliance and environmental justice, during the center's annual June conference.

At least three reservoirs likely will be contaminated by erosion in areas burned by this season's record wildfires, according to a University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ researcher. The South Platte watershed and Cheesman Reservoir, one of Denver's important water sources, will be affected by erosion from the Hayman fire, while the Missionary Ridge fire could affect the Vallecito and Lemon reservoirs, according to John Gartner, a research assistant at CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research.