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The National Science Foundation has awarded a University of Colorado at Boulder faculty member $4.2 million in a cooperative agreement over five years to lead a national effort to model the changing face of the Earth's surface.

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation news release The Bonfils-Stanton Foundation announced today the winners of three statewide awards for lifetime achievements in Arts and Humanities, Community Service and Science and Medicine. The Awards will be presented by Foundation chairman J. Landis Martin at a luncheon on Wednesday, May 2, at the Westin Tabor Center in Denver. Often called "Colorado's Nobels," the Bonfils-Stanton Awards will be presented to: o John D. Anderson, renowned architect and pioneer in the field of sustainable design (Arts and Humanities)

Two University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors have been elected to two of the most prestigious national academies for scientists. CU-Boulder physics Professor Noel Clark was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and Deborah Jin, an adjoint associate professor of physics at CU-Boulder and a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Alumni Association will honor 12 outstanding members of the campus community at the 77th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony on May 9. The public is invited to attend the free event at 7 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the Boulder campus, which also will commemorate the 125th anniversary of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association.

A woman who made civil rights history as one of nine African-American students to attend an all-white Little Rock, Ark., high school in 1957 against the wishes of anti-integration demonstrators will deliver a graduation address at the University of Colorado at Boulder May 10.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's extensive and well-known archive of 1930s and 1940s big band-era great Glenn Miller just got better with the addition of a major collection of artifacts from the estate of the late Richard C. March. A longtime member of the Glenn Miller Society in England, March's collection includes numerous reels of Miller recordings, as well as books, manuscripts, records, photographs and posters of the famed musician. March died in November 2005.

In a University of Colorado at Boulder physics lab recently, Martha-Elizabeth "Marty" Baylor popped a pair of rose-colored goggles over her eyes and lowered her head under the glass of a laser system she uses to conduct optical research. Among other challenges, Baylor, a JILA research assistant and graduate student, is working on a riddle scientists call the "cocktail party problem."

Two University of Colorado at Boulder professors have been awarded Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for 2007 and a third has received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. The Guggenheim recipients are Professor Paul Kroll of the East Asian languages and civilizations department and Professor Mark Winey of the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department. Kroll and Winey were among 189 fellows nationwide selected from more than 2,800 applicants.

Professional golf great Hale Irwin, a 1967 University of Colorado at Boulder graduate, will give the commencement address during CU-Boulder's spring commencement on Friday, May 11. The ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium, where 5,650 degrees will be conferred. Stadium gates open at 7 a.m. and guests are urged to be in their seats at the stadium well before 8:15 a.m. With commencement starting at 8:30 a.m., university officials are urging people to arrive as early as possible to avoid traffic delays.

An interactive "supermap" that portrays the mutations and spread of the avian flu around the globe over time should help researchers and policy makers better understand the virus and anticipate further outbreaks, according to a new study involving University of Colorado at Boulder researchers.