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Two scholars who are conducting research that could lead to a greater understanding of how climate change affects insects and what role soil carbon plays in the reduction of greenhouse gases are this year's recipients of the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship for Diversity and Equity at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism program will mark its 10th anniversary this week during a two-day gathering that will include a keynote talk by Rocky Mountain News President and Publisher John Temple. "Environmental Journalism Moves Into the Future" is the theme of a symposium and celebration to be held on Friday, May 18, and Saturday, May 19. The event will include panel and roundtable discussions on pressing environmental issues and the future of environmental journalism. The current class of Scripps fellows will graduate from the program on Saturday.

Bob Moses, president and founder of the Algebra Project and a nationally recognized educator, will receive the first University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education John Dewey Prize for Progressive Education. Moses, the winner of a 1982 MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the "genius grant," will speak about his Algebra Project during a free, public lecture to be held Thursday, May 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.

A team of NASA and University of Colorado at Boulder scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. It was the first widespread Antarctic melting ever detected with NASA's QuikScat satellite and the most significant melt observed using satellites during the past three decades. Combined, the affected regions encompassed an area as big as California.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has scheduled aerial photography of the Boulder campus and selected sites within the city limits during the week of May 14. Flights will take place on the first clear morning between Wednesday, May 16, and Friday, May 18, beginning about 7 a.m. Photography should be completed before noon on the day finally selected for the aerial shooting. All flights will conform to current FAA flight regulations. For more information, contact Kevin Lee, assistant director of University Communications, at (303) 492-1874.

Undergraduate advertising students from the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication took home more honors than competitors from any other university at the New York One Club's annual One Show student competition. The event is the top international student advertising competition. Among 59 award winners and finalists announced last week, CU-Boulder had seven winning entries, more than any other graduate or undergraduate school in the show.

Local students were among the 5,650 graduates who received degrees May 11 during spring commencement ceremonies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Professional golf great Hale Irwin, a 1967 University of Colorado at Boulder graduate, delivered the address during CU-Boulder's spring commencement on Friday, May 11. To hear Irwin's commencement address, visit the broadcast section of the News Center Web site at www.colorado.edu/news/broadcast/ to access an MP3 audio recording of the press conference.

A report of two suspicious individuals at nearby Boulder High School early Thursday morning prompted the University of Colorado to temporarily close 19 buildings and notify key personnel in the affected buildings of a heightened alert status on campus.

Because of events at Boulder High School on Thursday, the University of Colorado at Boulder will provide extra security measures at commencement ceremonies on Friday, including the main commencement ceremony at 8:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium. As a matter of media policy, the university does not discuss the specifics of its security measures. However, guests are asked not to bring large purses or bags to the ceremony, and people entering the stadium may be subject to search.