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Students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science will apply their design skills and engineering know-how for the sheer fun of it this week during Engineering Days 2002 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The annual Egg Drop, along with a Vertical Takeoff and Landing Challenge and a Model Rocket Launch, are some of the highlights of this year's event. Engineering Days, or E-Days, is a weeklong, tongue-in-cheek celebration of the engineering profession organized by students each spring. Students throughout the Boulder campus are invited to participate.

The United Mexican American Students group at the University of Colorado at Boulder will present a free public concert and Chicano film screening to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Chicano actor-singers Daniel and Emiliano Valdez of Teatro Campesino will perform a free concert April 29 in CU's Old Main Chapel at 7 p.m. Their music is a fusion of Chicano soul, Latino jazz and traditional Mexicano-influenced farmworker corridos. A reception will follow the concert.

University of Colorado at Boulder Provost Phil DiStefano has approved a search committee recommendation nominating Todd Gleeson as the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences pending approval of the Board of Regents at the board's May meeting.

Editors: The CU Jazz Ensemble will perform Friday, April 19, in Grusin Hall at the Imig Music Building, 18th Street and Euclid Ave., on the Boulder campus. During a military tour of duty in the hills of South Korea, the last thing that John Davis, now CU-Boulder's director of jazz studies, thought he would learn was a love of education and teaching. But that's exactly what happened to Davis, who today leads one of Colorado's fastest growing collegiate jazz programs.

The connections between work, energy, heat and temperature will be explained during the Saturday, April 27, CU Wizards show "Heat, Temperature and Absolute Zero." Paul Beale, a physics professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will present the show at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics, room G1B30. The free hour-long show is intended primarily for students in grades five through nine. CU Wizards is an annual series presented on the last Saturday morning of each month during the school year and covers topics in astronomy, chemistry and physics.

Officials at the University of Colorado at Boulder expressed sadness today at the death of Byron R White, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice, CU-Boulder valedictorian and the school's first All-American football player. "It was a privilege and pleasure for me to have known Justice Byron White," said CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny. "His tenure on the Supreme Court was distinguished, characterized by independent thinking and enormous integrity.

The Boulder Chapter of the CU Alumni Association has chosen three Boulder High School seniors to receive $2,500 scholarships for the 2002-03 academic year at CU-Boulder. Samuel (Clark) Berngard, Shan Lui and Ethan Van Duzer - all Boulder High School seniors -- are this year's winners. All three scholarship winners will graduate in the top 10 percent of their Boulder High School graduating class of 368, and their grade-point averages were all higher than 3.9.

Six tiny University of Colorado at Boulder experiments will be lofted by a large helium balloon from Windsor, Colo., to a height of about 17 miles before drifting back to Earth on the eastern plains via parachute on Saturday, April 20.

The University of Colorado at Boulder received $219 million in sponsored research awards for the 2000-2001 fiscal year, setting another financial record for the campus. NASA provided most of the award dollars to the campus -- $49 million - followed by the National Science Foundation at $42 million, the Department of Health and Human Services at $31 million and the Department of Commerce at nearly $22 million. CU-Boulder received $214 million in sponsored research in the 1999-2000 fiscal year.

Tim Gill, founder and former chairman of Denver-based Quark Inc., will speak on "Being Gay In The Business World" at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 24 at the Museum Collections Building, formerly the Geography Building, room W-100. The talk is at 3 p.m. followed by a reception in Dinosaur Hall of the Henderson Museum. Gill is a graduate of the CU-Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he earned a degree in applied mathematics in 1976. He went on to build Quark into a $1 billion computer software company.