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Beta Gamma Sigma has awarded Juan Rodriguez, a former CU-Boulder professor and a board member of the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, with the 2003 Medallion for Entrepreneurship. Beta Gamma Sigma is the only international honor society serving business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. It has established 374 collegiate chapters in all 50 states plus Canada and Hong Kong. Its mission is to honor academic achievement, support the advancement of business and foster a commitment to integrity.

°µÍø½ûÇø 750 physicists will gather at the University of Colorado at Boulder May 20 through May 24 for the 34th annual conference of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society. Nobel laureates Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell will be among the scientists attending the national event. Atomic, molecular and optical physics covers a diverse range of subjects from medical imaging and geological exploration to tests of Einstein's theories of relativity and the fundamental properties of atoms and molecules.

The University of Colorado at Boulder announced today the appointment of Professor David Getches as dean of the CU School of Law, pending approval by the Board of Regents at its May 27 meeting. CU-Boulder Provost Phil DiStefano said Getches would begin his duties as dean July 1. "I am extremely pleased that Professor David Getches has accepted my offer to be dean of the law school," said DiStefano. "He brings an exceptionally strong academic record and administrative experience to this leadership position on the campus."

A serendipitous discovery by a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team has shown for the first time that satellite signals from the Global Positioning System are a valuable new tool for studying earthquakes.

Vanessa Aponte has been interested in science for as long as she can remember, since she first built a terrarium in the fifth grade. But the Puerto Rican elementary school student didn't think she had what it took to become an astronaut until much more recently.

The first comprehensive study of the history of the death penalty in Colorado shows a longstanding unease with capital punishment and a general trend toward abolition, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder expert. Since the 1859 hanging of John Stoefel from a cottonwood tree in Cherry Creek in the new settlement of Denver in the Kansas Territory, another 102 legally mandated executions were carried out through 2003, said sociology Professor Michael Radelet, one of the nation's leading experts on the death penalty.

The University and College Ombuds Association has selected a University of Colorado at Boulder staff member as its new president-elect. Mary Chavez Rudolph, a CU-Boulder associate ombudsperson and former admissions counselor and graduate student adviser, was chosen for the three-year position. The UCOA is an international association of university offices dedicated to resolving student, staff and faculty conflicts.

Local students were among the 4,943 students who received degrees May 9 during spring commencement ceremonies on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.

Dick and Jean Engebretson donated $1 million to the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business today to support various initiatives. Dick Engebretson earned his MBA in 1972 from the school and today he is the executive vice president of dmg world media, an international exhibition and publishing company. Jean Engebretson graduated with her master's degree in education in 1976. The gift was announced at the MBA graduation ceremony on May 9.

University of Colorado at Boulder English Professor Jeffrey Robinson has won the university's highest teaching and research honor, the Hazel Barnes Prize, for his work in the area of Romantic literature and poetics. Robinson holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Chicago and Brandeis University. He said his Hazel Barnes Prize, which carries a $20,000 award, is recognition of his 32-year career at CU-Boulder.