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Uriel Nauenberg, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been selected to receive the university's highest recognition for teaching and research, the Hazel Barnes Prize, for his work in high-energy physics. The prize includes an engraved University Medal and a cash award of $20,000, the largest single faculty award funded by the university. He will be recognized during spring commencement exercises on May 7.

Rocket launches and sunspot viewing are among the highlights of Astronomy Day, a family-oriented celebration being held on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Saturday, April 24. Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory will offer activities from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the planetarium and observatory. All activities are free and open to the public.

Three University of Colorado at Boulder professors have been awarded Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for 2004 and another has received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. The Guggenheim recipients are among 185 fellows selected from more than 3,200 applicants. The scholars, scientists and artists will receive awards totaling $6.9 million from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in its 80th annual competition.

A dozen distinguished guest faculty members from all over the world will teach a series of unique summer courses starting in May at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Astronaut James Voss, CNN senior editor James Schiffman and Brown University professor-at-large and MacArthur fellow Shirley Brice Heath are among the guest instructors, in addition to professors from the universities of Vienna, Austria, and Montesquieu-Bordeaux, France. They are scheduled to teach classes as part of the CU-Boulder First Faculty in Residence Summer Term beginning May 10.

Engineering faculty, staff and students at the University of Colorado at Boulder have been scribbling sonnets and dabbling in Italian opera this semester as part of an initiative by the Herbst Humanities Program to engage engineers in the arts.

"Public Memory," a documentary film about how and why people create memorials following tragic events, will be shown at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, April 19. The film, to be shown at 7 p.m. in Hellems Arts and Sciences Building room 252, includes an interview with Professor Ken Foote, chair of CU-Boulder's geography department and author of the book "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy." The event is free and open to the public.

University of Chicago Law School Professor Cass Sunstein will deliver the CU-Boulder School of Law's 47th annual John R. Coen Lecture, Monday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom located in the Fleming Law Building. The lecture, titled "Are Judges Political: Bush, Confirmations and Beyond," is free and open to the public and to university students, staff and alumni. Sunstein also is a faculty member of the University of Chicago political science department and is the author of numerous legal articles and books.

NEWS TIP SHEET The former Interim Minister of Irrigation for Iraq, Eugene Z. Stakhiv, will speak at CU-Boulder April 15 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Duane Physics, room 1B20, on water management resources during 2003 in the war-torn country. Stakhiv was Iraq's interim Minister of Irrigation from April 2003 to August 2003 and is chief of the planning, policy and special studies division at the Institute for Water Resources at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A reception will follow his talk.

The CU-Boulder chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity has been awarded a 2004 Award of Distinction by the North American Interfraternity Conference. The fraternity was one of only five chapters to receive the award from the organization representing 5,500 chapters on 800 campuses in the United States and Canada with approximately 350,000 undergraduate members.

The CU Parents Association has awarded $46,000 in scholarships to 46 undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to Peter Simons, director of the Office of Parent Relations. The scholarship awards are merit-based and are presented each spring. The scholarships are made possible by CU Parents Association fund-raising efforts. Interested students must complete and submit an application by early March.