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For the second time in three years, a University of Colorado at Boulder professor has been selected to receive the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications. Kristi Anseth, CU-Boulder professor of chemical and biological engineering and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute assistant investigator, will receive the national award and $5,000 prize at the annual AIChE meeting Nov. 16-21 in San Francisco.

A dean and a group of prominent University of Colorado at Boulder alumni hope more than a thousand cyclists will sign up for pledge rides during a new fall fund-raiser to benefit students at the university's College of Arts and Sciences. The Buffalo Bicycle Classic will be held Sept. 7 from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pledge-ride routes of 32, 65 and 100 miles will each begin and end near Folsom Field on the CU-Boulder campus. Proceeds raised by bikers will support student scholarships, research and creative projects.

Editor's Note: Student teams from throughout Colorado will demonstrate their payloads at the final Launch Readiness Review set for Friday, Aug. 1, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Discovery Learning Center, located on the southwest corner of Colorado Avenue and Regent Drive in Boulder. The review is not open to the public, but reporters and photographers are welcome to attend.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has received a four-year, $2 million Initiative for Minority Student Development grant from the National Institutes of Health to increase student diversity in bioscience fields on campus.

Gabriel Meraz, a senior honors student at Skyview High School in Thornton, is this year's recipient of the CU Leadership, Excellence, Achievement and Diversity scholarship awarded by the Parents Association at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The scholarship consists of $10,000 divided into four annual supplements of $2,500. The award was presented to Meraz at a July 18 banquet for high school students who successfully completed the CU-Boulder Pre-Collegiate Development Summer Residential Program.

The history of manned space flight and the development of the space shuttle will be explored at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Aug. 1, at 8 p.m.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and CU-Health Sciences Center have been awarded a $6.5 million grant to bring to Colorado the largest nuclear magnetic resonance magnet available in the world today.

A University of Colorado at Boulder expert on nation building warns against the premature withdrawal of U.S. occupation forces from Iraq following comments made by Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq. Bremer was quoted in the July 16 editions of the Washington Post and New York Times as saying that coalition forces likely will depart Iraq after the first elections are held.

A diverse group of high school students from Denver, Boulder and St. Vrain Valley schools will get a taste of what it's like to be an engineer when they design and build robots among other hands-on activities at the University of Colorado at Boulder's sixth annual Success Institute.

A multidisciplinary international conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder this fall will showcase successful projects and leading-edge research on sustainable development around the world. The conference is co-sponsored by the Sustainable Village, CU-Boulder and Naropa University.