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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.

Five journalists have been selected as 2005-06 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The fellowships are hosted by the Center for Environmental Journalism and funded through a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The nine-month program offers mid-career journalists an opportunity to deepen their understanding of environmental issues and policy through coursework, seminars and field trips in the region. Following are the new Ted Scripps Fellows:

°µÍø½ûÇø 13,000 students and adults from around the world will converge on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus to attend the 26th annual Odyssey of the Mind World Finals May 21-24. Participants will come from throughout the United States and about 20 other countries including China, Germany, Poland and Kazakhstan. The majority of attendees will stay on the CU-Boulder campus and in local hotels.

Crystal Olin, a junior environmental design major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named a 2005 Morris K. Udall Scholar in honor of her academic excellence and commitment to the environment. Olin will receive $5,000 and will travel to Tucson, Ariz., this summer to meet with other Udall Scholars, policy makers and leaders in environmental fields. She is one of only 81 students chosen for the scholarship out of 436 candidates nominated by 211 colleges and universities.

The 2005 freshman class at the University of Colorado at Boulder is shaping up to be smaller than last year but bigger than first projected. New freshmen are projected to total about 4,900, though the actual number for fall 2005 will not be known until census in mid-September. The final tally of applications this spring came to 17,149, a 12 percent drop from 19,334 in 2004.

The speed of objects, light and sound will be on display May 21 during the CU Wizards show titled "Speed," presented by University of Colorado at Boulder adjoint physics Professor Eric Cornell. The free public presentation begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Duane Physics building, room G1B30, on the CU-Boulder campus. Cornell will measure different types of speed during an hour-long show that is intended primarily for students in grades five through nine.

A University of Colorado at Boulder space research group will receive $12.2 million to participate in an upcoming NASA mission to explore the fundamental physics of electromagnetic fields near Earth as they interact with the solar wind.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is again the number one destination for Colorado high school seniors receiving prestigious all-expense-paid Boettcher Scholarships. Twelve new Boettcher Scholars will begin attending CU-Boulder in the fall. The incoming freshman Boettcher winners come from 11 different high schools around the state. The group includes six women and six men.