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The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ plans to continue its efforts to reduce high-risk drinking when the five-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation expires, university officials said. The $860,000 grant is currently scheduled to expire in August.

The Black Biomedical Research Movement at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ will host a presentation by Virginia Richardson, cancer survivor, at the Juneteenth Black Health Expo at the Gipson Eastside Family Health Center, 501 28th St. in Denver, on June 15 from 1:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Richardson, a single mother of three children, will give a lecture on her efforts to promote minority health care.

Astronomers from the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a key building block for new stars in the rapidly expanding remains of an ancient stellar explosion. Presented at the 197th meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting June 3 to June 7 in Pasadena, Calif., the study provides insights into the early stages of a process by which violent stellar explosions help produce new stars.

Aswad Allen is the new director of the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ College of Business's Diversity and Minority Programs, business Dean Steven Manaster announced. "We created this position because diversity is a top priority of our school," Manaster said. "Aswad's experience will help advance the college's goals of implementing a broader scope of initiatives. He brings a comprehensive background of leading diversity programs and will help us move this priority to the next level."

Two decades after questions about safety and the disposal of radioactive waste effectively halted the development of nuclear power in the United States, the nuclear industry is once again being considered as a viable source of energy. But investors planning to climb on the nuclear bandwagon should be aware of the significant cleanup costs that these plants will incur in the future, according to a new study published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Randy A. Bartels, a doctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, was selected by the Department of Energy to attend the 51st convention of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany, from June 25 to June 29. An electrical engineering doctoral student from the University of Michigan, Bartels is pursuing his doctoral dissertation research at JILA in the field of ultrafast optics. JILA is a joint institute of CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology based on the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus.

The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ will host the 2001 Summer ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Campus Blood Drive in the south parking lot of the Administrative and Research Center, 3100 Marine St., on the East Campus. The blood drive is open to the public and will be held June 15 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Those interested in donating should sign up for an appointment by calling (303) 492-5473 through June 14 at 3 p.m.

The wonders of the summer sky and tips on observing the International Space Station will be presented at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Fiske Planetarium during the live astronomy show "ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Skies" on Tuesday, June 19, at 8 p.m. Fiske lecturers Sanlyn Buxner and Deidre Brucker will guide the audience on a tour of ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's magnificent view of the heavens and will discuss upcoming celestial events.

Dr. Hobart M. Smith, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, received the 2001 W. F. Blair Eminent Naturalist Award from the Southwestern Association of Naturalists at the association's annual meeting in Fort Hays, Kansas, in April. The association presents the Blair Award in recognition of excellence in a lifetime of commitment to outstanding study or conservation of the flora or fauna of the Southwest.

The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ is hosting a weekend of festivities allowing participants to share in Arapaho culture through art, stories and songs as well as the opportunity to learn the Arapaho language from June 7 through June 10. The first-ever Arapaho Nation Cultural Festival and "No-eeckoohuut-Coming Home" Pow Wow celebrates the culture and homeland of the Arapaho Tribe in the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Valley and Colorado.