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An American engineer has produced a mathematical model explaining the elegant shape of the Eiffel Tower that was derived from French engineer Gustave Eiffel's writings regarding his own fears about the effects of wind on such a structure.

A memorial service for Kelly Hillgrove, a University of Colorado at Boulder student who died Dec. 26 when a tsunami struck Sri Lanka, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 2, in Muenzinger Psychology Building room 050 on the CU-Boulder campus. Hillgrove, 35, was a senior majoring in ethnic studies with a minor in political science. She was a full-time student at CU-Boulder in fall semester 2004 and was enrolled again for spring semester. She also had taken classes through CU-Boulder Continuing Education in spring 1992.

The Friends of the University of Colorado Libraries will hold its annual Information Day at Norlin Library on the CU-Boulder campus Thursday, Jan. 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will be in the Center for British and Irish Studies on the fifth floor. No reservations are required.

"Eric was discharged from the hospital yesterday. He still has a lot of healing and rehabilitation ahead of him and will not be returning to work for several months. "Our family is very happy to be together for this holiday season and we would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy new year." NOTE Nobel laureate Eric Cornell is a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and adjoint professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Editors: Enclosed are the names of the degree candidates from your area. This list was accurate as of Dec. 16 but is subject to final grade reports. Local students were among the 2,227 students who received degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder during winter commencement ceremonies on Dec. 17. In addition, prominent Colorado businessman Bruce Benson received an honorary doctoral degree recognizing his university and public service, and longtime CU-Boulder staff member Kathleen Salzberg received the University Medal during the ceremony.

Ice particles are key players in the ever-changing panorama at Saturn, according to a new study led by a University of Colorado at Boulder professor using an instrument on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft now at the ringed planet. Larry Esposito of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics said data from the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer, or UVIS, indicates much of Saturn's system is filled with ice, as well as atoms derived from water. Esposito is the principal investigator for the $12.5 million UVIS instrument riding on the craft.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until Wednesday, Dec. 15, at 9 a.m. PST. A region between radiation belts surrounding the Earth was filled with concentrated radiation during the ferocious "Halloween" solar storms of October and November 2003. The radiation surge was the most intense ever observed in this region, called the "Van Allen Radiation Belt Slot."

University of Colorado Professor Michael Lightner has been elected to lead the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world's largest technical professional society with more than 360,000 members in 150 countries. Lightner is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will begin offering a new professional development course through its Division of Continuing Education in February called Six Sigma Black Belt, which has been used by Motorola, General Electric, Honeywell, Ford and other companies to minimize the cost of poor quality.

Six University of Colorado at Boulder professors will receive Big 12 Faculty Fellowships in 2004-05 to conduct research in music to virtual reality, Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor Christine Yoshinaga-Itano announced. Each institution in the Big 12 conference has established faculty fellowships of up to $2,500. The recipients spend one or two weeks in residence at another Big 12 institution to do research or creative work and are selected each fall by the Office of Diversity and Equity.