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Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

Jane Curtis, a health educator for the California Institute of Technology with more than 10 years of experience in alcohol and drug prevention, has been named the new director of alcohol programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, replacing outgoing director Robert Maust who will retire at the end of August. Maust has been director since 1997 of A Matter of Degree, CU-Boulder's alcohol education program. With the hiring of Curtis, CU-Boulder's alcohol and substance abuse program will be renamed the Alcohol and Other Drugs Program.

Construction work that damaged a power line at the University of Colorado at Boulder resulted in an overloaded transformer today at the Engineering Center complex and power outages in 11 other buildings, primarily residence halls. The aerospace engineering and electrical engineering departments in the Engineering Center were closed for the day. CU-Boulder emergency officials had restored power to all buildings except the two engineering departments and the north side of Willard Hall as of 2:30 p.m. No injuries were reported.

University of Colorado at Boulder chemistry and biochemistry Professor Marvin Caruthers will receive the nation's highest accolade for scientific achievement, the National Medal of Science, during a White House ceremony next week. One of CU-Boulder's Distinguished Professors, Caruthers is a biotechnology pioneer and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Five University of Colorado at Boulder students have been offered Fulbright scholarships to study overseas during the 2007-2008 academic year. Mongolia, Iceland and Korea are among the countries where CU-Boulder students will be conducting research and teaching, according to Larry Bell, director of CU-BoulderÂ’s Office of International Education.

As of 9 p.m. Tuesday evening, power had been completely restored to the electrical engineering section of the CU engineering building following an overload of the buildingÂ’s transformer Tuesday morning. The power outage there and a related outage that hit 11 residence halls on the CU-Boulder campus Tuesday were the result of construction work that hit a major powerline on the east campus at mid-day on Monday. Power was restored to the residence halls earlier in the day on Tuesday.

Before Robert E. Foss graduated from the University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s business school in 1971, he took many of his classes in the schoolÂ’s then-new building. Now 36 years later he and his wife will help provide a similar experience for 3,800 students at CU-BoulderÂ’s Leeds School of Business. Foss and his wife, Georganne, have pledged $1 million to name the deanÂ’s suite in the Koelbel Building, the business schoolÂ’s newly renovated and expanded home, which is set to reopen in August.

The remarkable manner in which nature has found nearly perfect solutions to survival problems will be discussed at a free public lecture Wednesday, July 18, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Princeton University physics Professor William Bialek will present "More Perfect Than We Imagined: A Physicist's View of Life" at 7 p.m. in Duane Physics, room G1B20.

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows people have the ability to suppress emotional memories with practice, which has implications for those suffering from conditions ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to depression.

NEWS TIP SHEET Wildfire Klaus Wolter, climatologist and research associate with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, can provide a meteorological view of drought. For several years, Wolter has studied conditions in the southwestern United States and each month posts a detailed seasonal forecast for the region on the Web at www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/klaus.wolter/SWcasts . He can be reached at (303) 497-6340 or kew@cdc.noaa.gov .