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Colorado residents expecting smaller tax bills or bigger refunds this year may be in for a surprise, according to Betty Jackson, professor of accounting and chair of accounting and business law at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. "The bottom line is that state tax bills will be up this year," Jackson said, noting that deductions contingent on the state budget being in surplus have been eliminated.

Photographers: When visiting Base Line Middle School, please check-in at the main office. Jeanne Manning will be available for assistance. An outreach partnership between the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Base Line Middle School comes to fruition this month as Base Line eighth graders dive into the Copenhagen Project.

When the McCrays journeyed to Hawaii last fall for Professor Richard McCray's surprise 65th birthday celebration, they hinted that the family gift was going to be significant. It was. The gift they gave him established the Richard A. McCray Scholarship Fund with the CU Foundation for the benefit of undergraduate scholarships at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The University Colorado at Boulder's kinesiology and applied physiology department is seeking healthy postmenopausal women 45 to 65 years old to participate in research involving hormone replacement therapy, or HRT. The goal is to test and see if estrogen and/or moderate exercise may improve body functions, said Associate Research Professor Kerrie Moreau of the kinesiology and applied physiology department.

"Copenhagen," a Tony Award-winning play about ethical, moral and personal dilemmas surrounding the creation of the first nuclear bomb, will provide the backdrop for a two-part symposium presented April 13-14 by the University of Colorado at Boulder and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Matthys Levy, co-author of a controversial study on why the World Trade Center collapsed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, will present his findings as part of a public regional symposium sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering on April 10 at CU-Boulder. The symposium, "Tall Buildings: Are They Safe Enough?" will be held from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the new Discovery Learning Center at CU-Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science. The Discovery Learning Center is located on the southwest corner of Colorado Avenue and Regent Drive.

Luz del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel, one of the few artists who specialize in creating digital art in Mexico, will display her work at the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries starting on Friday, April 11, and continuing through June. An artist's talk and reception will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the fifth floor British Studies Room of Norlin Library on April 11. The event is free and open to the public. The exhibition, titled "Destinies: A Portfolio of Digital Art Pieces," will be on display in the Norlin Library third floor northwest gallery.

Robert L. Hernandez III, a 2002 graduate and visiting teaching assistant in the ethnic studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named recipient of the Frederick A. Cervantes National Premio.

"Africa in the Rockies," a conference for K-12 teachers aimed at enhancing their teaching of Africa, will be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 5-6. The conference will include workshops on Saturday and a celebration on Sunday. All events are free and open to the public. The conference workshops will be held in rooms 245 and 247 of the University Memorial Center from noon to 5 p.m. and advance registration is encouraged. No registration is required on Sunday.

Supernovae, one of the most violent phenomena in astronomy, will be explored at CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, April 4, and Tuesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado at Boulder astronomy Professor Richard McCray will delve into the subject of supernovae, looking at everything from ancient Chinese inscriptions to current observations of these rare stars and how these observations are used to measure the expansion of the universe.