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The University of Colorado at Boulder athletics program is among 13 Division I programs to attain NCAA certification without conditions, according to an announcement Thursday by the NCAA. Three other universities received certification with conditions in this second cycle of NCAA certification. The designation of certified means that an institution operates its athletics program in substantial conformity with operating principles adopted by the Division I membership, according to the NCAA announcement.

News release issued by NIST The world's most accurate "ruler" made with extreme ultraviolet light has been built and demonstrated with ultrafast laser pulses by scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19. The December earthquake and tsunami that killed approximately 300,000 people in the Indian Ocean region was so powerful that no point on Earth went undisturbed, pointing to the need for more active warnings about the consequences of future events, according to University of Colorado at Boulder seismologist Roger Bilham.

MEDIA ADVISORY Reporters planning to cover the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus Saturday, May 21, through Tuesday, May 24, should pick up press badges from the pressroom in the Coors Events/Conference Center, room 2. The pressroom will be open Saturday through Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and will provide reporters with competition information and badges allowing reporters into closed events, including the Opening Ceremonies and the Awards Ceremonies. Highlights of World Finals events follow:

Editors: Please note students from your community. Eighteen undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder have received the prestigious Jacob Van Ek Award for outstanding academic achievement and contributions to the university and Boulder communities. The recipients were honored May 5 along with faculty members they named as mentors. The award was established in 1973 to honor Jacob Van Ek, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder from 1929 to 1959. Van Ek died in 1994 at the age of 97.

Chile, Azerbaijan and Germany are among the destinations where four new faculty Fulbright Scholars and Fellows from the University of Colorado at Boulder will teach and conduct research in 2005 and 2006. Professor Thomas Riis, Associate Professor Jeff Frykholm and instructors Anne Bliss and Doug Cosper have been named Fulbright winners from CU-Boulder. The faculty grants are announced at different times through the year and a complete list of CU-Boulder faculty Fulbrights will become available in the fall.

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Marc Bekoff has been named winner of the Bank One Colorado Corporation 2004 Faculty Community Service Award for exceptional humanitarian and civic service. A professor in CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department, Bekoff is well known in the scientific world for his studies of animal behavior, animal cognition and behavioral ecology. He is recognized in the Boulder community and beyond for outreach and service to both children and adults on environmental issues, including animal awareness and animal rights.

With their degrees in hand and commencement over, some newly minted college graduates are missing something -- a job. Not being gainfully employed shortly after graduation is not unusual, but also shouldn't be taken lightly, according to Lisa Severy, director of Career Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Albert Einstein predicted it in 1924 but it wasn't until 1995 that scientists in a Boulder, Colo., laboratory were able to chill atoms to almost absolute zero and create a strange new form of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate. Now approaching its 10th anniversary, the discovery launched a new field of atomic physics that has spawned about 4,000 scientific papers and a treasure-trove of scientific discoveries. The original apparatus that made the Boulder discovery is now at the Smithsonian Institution.

A group of Colorado men went to bed in the name of science recently as part of a University of Colorado at Boulder study probing ways to stem muscle degeneration in both weightless astronauts and earthbound people.