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A team of engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus this week performing a series of tests on a student-built satellite slated for launch later this year. A semitrailer full of high-tech NASA electronic equipment is being used to ensure that communications between the orbiting satellite and NASA ground stations will work properly, said Stan Solomon, a research associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and the project co-leader.

NEWS TIP SHEET Jan. 22, 1997 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Students Set to Ship Space Shuttle Payload A group of students from the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder-based ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Space Grant Consortium will ship a scientific payload to Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland this week in preparation for a July launch on NASA¹s space shuttle Discovery from Florida.

The Vice ChancellorÂ’s Awards and Grants Advising Committee at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder has awarded grants to support outreach projects by 22 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder employees for 1997-98. Outreach programs extend the resources of the university and serve various educational, social, economic and cultural needs of communities throughout ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥.

Joe Louis Barrow Jr., a Denver businessman and son of legendary boxer Joe Louis, will give the keynote address Feb. 1 at the Black Alumni Scholarship fund-raising dinner at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder. The event is part of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder1s observance of Black Awareness Month. Barrow will speak at 6 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center. Tickets are $35 and can be ordered by calling (303) 321-8542.

Several noted faculty members at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder will present lectures in the Fiske Planetarium during the spring semester lecture series. "Once a month, come share the beauty of the heavens in the Star Theater," said Katy Garmany, astronomer and planetarium director. "Audiences will be able to ask questions of the astronomer speakers and learn about what1s happening in the night sky."

A month-long celebration of the African-American culture will showcase music and dance, film, in-depth discussion and ethnic food in recognition of Black Awareness Month, observed in February each year at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder.

Boulder-area singers are invited to participate Feb. 1 and Feb. 2 in the Gospel Music Festival, a long-standing and popular event during ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder1s annual observance of Black Awareness Month. The two-day festival will be directed and conducted by Horace Clarence Boyer, professor of music theory and Afro-American music at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Boyer has conducted the festival since it began 10 years ago.

New evidence indicates Australia's interior cooled by more than 16 degrees Fahrenheit during the last ice age, hinting that dramatic temperature drops associated with glaciations at the poles and in the Northern Hemisphere reached around the globe.

A five-member team of researchers and graduate students at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will be honored for their scientific paper announcing the creation of a new state of matter at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 15.