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Recent discoveries about the universe and its evolution will be the topic of "The Big Bang," a live show at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Aug. 3, at 8 p.m. CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Professor Andrew Hamilton will take the planetarium audience on a trip back in time to learn about the "big bang" and how the Milky Way and its stars were formed. The term big bang refers to the theory that the universe began at a single point in space and has been expanding ever since.

A group of Colorado physicists who made worldwide news in 1995 by creating a new form of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate have developed a new "flavor" of the matter that has been delivering surprise after surprise in the laboratory.

Incoming freshmen participating in the summer bridge programs at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ are wrapping up their studies this week with some showcase events. Summer bridge programs help entering freshmen acquire skills needed for a more effective transition from high school to college. The Minority Arts and Sciences Program has 24 high school graduates enrolled at CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ participating in its summer bridge program that began June 17 and will end on Friday, July 20.

Editors: Media reporters and photographers wanting to attend the Success Institute can get an agenda by calling Carol Rowe at (303) 492-7426. It runs July 24-28 at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory of CU's College of Engineering and Applied Science. While their friends go swimming or clock in hours at summer jobs, some hard-working 10th and 12th graders from Denver, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and St. Vrain Valley schools will take time out to build solar-powered cars and learn about alternative energy sources at CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's fourth annual "Engineering Success Institute."

Robert L. Linn, distinguished professor of education at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, has been named president-elect of the 23,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA). Linn will begin a one-year term as president in the spring of 2002 following incumbent president Andrew Porter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Colorado has received a five-year, $1.4 million training grant from the National Institutes of Health, which will support graduate education and 12 new fellowships in the emerging, interdisciplinary field.

Christopher Bowman, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, has been selected to receive the 2001 Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The award, given to one leading researcher under the age of 36 each year, is the most important and prestigious award in the field of chemical engineering, according to chemical engineering department Chair Rob Davis. A $5,000 prize will be presented with the award at the annual AIChE meeting Nov. 5 in Reno, Nev.

The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has become the 29th member of the Leadership Alliance, the premiere coalition of the nation's top research and teaching institutions seeking to increase the numbers of traditionally underrepresented students in graduate study. James H. Wyche, executive director of the Alliance and associate provost at Brown University, will visit the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus Monday and Tuesday July 16th and 17th. He will meet with CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ faculty Monday afternoon.

Elementary school teachers looking for ways to integrate math and science concepts in their classrooms will build pencil rockets and experiment with slingshot-propelled cars at a workshop sponsored by CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory July 16 through July 19. The "Kinetics for Kids" workshop introduces engineering to kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers from around Colorado through fun, hands-on activities that teachers can use in their own classrooms with a minimum of expense.

The Upward Bound program, now in its 21st year of operation at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, is experiencing its highest attendance ever this year with two summer programs that began June 15th and end July 27th. Hailing from nine states, including California, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Oregon and North Carolina, 131 students are taking part in the original summer Upward Bound program and the more recently established Math and Science Center, now in its third year.