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Note to Editors: Doug Duncan is available for interviews. For visuals, Fiske Planetarium has a large meteorite on display and Duncan has a portable, baseball-sized meteorite. Call Duncan at (303) 492-5003 or Greg Swenson at (303) 492-3113 to arrange an interview. The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event, will be visible in the night sky throughout Colorado in early August, according to experts at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium.

A student of the University of Colorado at Boulder is seeking donations after he and a friend crawled a world-record 32.26 miles on their hands and knees last month in Colorado Springs to raise money for pediatric AIDS research. CU-Boulder senior Leo Chau completed the 45-hour-long crawl at 3:30 a.m. June 11. He and friend Sean Duffy aimed to raise $20,000 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, but they remain more than $1,000 short of that goal.

More than two-dozen metro-area high school juniors and seniors are designing and building Mars rover models this week at the University of Colorado at Boulder's eighth annual Success Institute.

Office workers, musicians and golfers are among those who can benefit from a unique form of balance and movement training used by actors including Hillary Swank, Robin Williams and Paul Newman, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder professor. The Alexander Technique has been used by dozens of successful actors, athletes, musicians and others to combat chronic pain and repetitive motion injury, according to James Brody, a professor at the CU-Boulder College of Music.

NASA has awarded graduate fellowships to five University of Colorado at Boulder students for earth system science studies in 2005, the most awarded to any university in the nation. A total of 65 Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowships awarded to 41 universities by NASA for 2005-2006 are now pending acceptance by applicants at their respective institutions. Each graduate fellowship carries a one-year, $24,000 award that is renewable annually for up to three years based on academic progress and performance.

The world of shrinking technologies and the opportunities and challenges faced when building at the "nanoscale" will be explored in a July 26 lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Cornell University physics Professor Paul McEuen will present the free public lecture "Small is All: Nano, Bio and the Future of Technology" at 7 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20.

New findings from a study conducted by psychologists at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of South Carolina could change scientists' basic understanding of how infants learn.

Cigarette smoking causes as many as 340,000 deaths a year in the United States and poses a greater relative risk to women than men, according to a new detailed analysis of smokers and mortality led by a University of Colorado at Boulder sociologist.

Twenty-five students from the University of Colorado at Boulder studying international business in London are safe and accounted for in their flats in the city's financial district following today's terrorist attack, CU-Boulder officials said. All of the students also have contacted or attempted to contact their families following the terrorist attack.

Today's bombings of three subway stations and a bus in London "shows that there was some degree of planning and there is probably the presence of some headquarters or planning cell of terrorists involved," said University of Colorado at Boulder political science instructor Michael Kanner. Frank Beer, a political science professor of international relations and conflict, said the attack "will have a chilling effect on Western life and graphically shows the vulnerability of complex modern societies."