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Photo Editors: Walkers will enter Norlin Quadrangle at 5:30 p.m. to begin the closing ceremony with breast cancer survivors leading the way. The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Office of Community Affairs will host the closing ceremony for the Colorado leg of the "Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day," a national event to raise money for breast cancer research taking place in nine cities during summer 2001. An estimated 8,000 people, including 3,000 walkers, will be on campus Sunday, Aug. 5, at 5:30 p.m. for the closing ceremony in Norlin Quadrangle.

University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ alumnus H. Joe Smead has established an endowed chair in the department of aerospace engineering sciences in memory of A. Richard Seebass, the former aerospace professor, department chair and dean of engineering who died in December 2000.

The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ will confer 1,076 degrees during the summer commencement ceremony Saturday, Aug. 11, at 8:30 a.m. The summer ceremony, which is much smaller than the spring and winter ceremonies, is the only one held outside on the lawn of the historic Norlin Quadrangle in the heart of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus. The ceremony will include the reading of all the graduates' names and will last about two hours. If it rains the ceremony will be held in an abbreviated form.

In a unique funding arrangement, CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Porter Biosciences Building soon will be equipped with an energy-efficient heat recovery system funded in part by a private donation from ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ residents Chuck and Patricia Palmer. The $300,000 system will be installed into the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems of the laboratory building. Porter Biosciences is typically one of the largest energy users on campus because it continually exhausts 100 percent of its conditioned air from the building. Typical buildings exhaust only about 15-25 percent.

A total of 118 blankets and towels were collected during the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's community blanket and towel drive for the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Shelter for the Homeless and the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and Longmont Humane Societies. CU's Office of Community Affairs partnered with the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity to distribute blankets to the homeless shelter. Students joined with university coordinators to recycle the items as they moved out of the residence halls last spring, which led to a successful outcome of the drive, said Gail Siegel, community affairs director.

NEWS TIP SHEET CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Experts Available to Comment on July 25 CSAP Results Two testing experts from the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ School of Education will be available to comment on the release of Colorado Student Assessment Program reading, writing, math and science test results for grades four to 10 on Wednesday, July 25. Lorrie Shepard, dean of the School of Education and professor of education, can be reached Wednesday afternoon at (303) 492-8108. Shepard is frequently cited as a national authority on standardized testing and assessment and kindergarten readiness.

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the best celestial treats of the year, will be visible in night skies throughout Colorado in early August. The natural fireworks will be most active Aug. 8-15, peaking Aug. 12 during the early morning hours between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. when more than 50 meteors per hour could be visible, according to experts at the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.

Approximately 350 incoming first year students at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ will participate in the second annual Camp Colorado on Aug. 20-22 to learn more about CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ traditions. According to camp organizer Matthew Hiser, CU alumni association director of student relations, students will travel to the Snow Mountain Ranch YMCA Camp outside of Winter Park for activities designed to introduce them to CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ traditions, the Rocky Mountains and fellow classmates.

Former CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ professor of electrical engineering and Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer will return to the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus next month to receive an honorary degree at August commencement and present a public lecture on his groundbreaking research in semiconductors, which helped to launch the modern Information Age. The lecture, titled "Heterostructures for Everything?" will be presented Friday, Aug. 10, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., in the Math 100 Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Patricia Graff, a former project manager at Leopard Communications in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, has been named assistant director of the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, a joint program of the colleges of business and engineering at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. Her appointment was effective July 16.