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A new study indicates the Asian southwest monsoon, which affects the livelihood of millions of people, appears to have increased in intensity during the last four centuries, perhaps as a result of warming in the Northern Hemisphere.

Two University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder freshmen are starting their college research careers by working for Nobel Prize-winning professors as part of a program designed to attract top students to the university. Edwin Eng and Kevin Chang, who will begin classes at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder in the fall, are among 30 students taking advantage of the university's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program. Eng and Chang are assisting in research projects for professors Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell, winners of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics.

Editors: Reporters and photographers interested in visiting the Success Institute may obtain specific schedule information from Carol Rowe at (303) 492-7426. The event runs from July 23 through July 27 at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory in the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science.

The first public hearing on six proposed redevelopment plans for the World Trade Center site will be held July 20 in New York City, but University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder architecture instructor Scott Sworts predicts that community groups and city officials involved with the redevelopment won't give approval of the plans now on the table. The proposals unveiled by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. on July 16 call for replacing all of the 11 million square feet of lost office space along with a 600,000-square-foot shopping mall and an 800-room hotel.

Despite differing opinions on the topic, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥'s monsoon season is already underway, according to Klaus Wolter, an atmospheric scientist at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder. In fact, Wolter believes the Southwest monsoon began early this year. The monsoon season, which typically starts around the middle of July in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, actually began at the beginning of the month, said Wolter, a researcher with the Climate Diagnostics Center, part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder.

A team of researchers at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder has generated a laser-like light beam at super-short wavelengths that could make it possible to peer into single cells and to produce computer chips with features more than 1,000 times finer than the thickness of a human hair.

Sixteen Boettcher Scholars at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder received enrichment grants this summer to conduct projects in locations ranging from campus laboratories to an aboriginal medical clinic in Australia. The Boettcher Scholarship is considered to be the most prestigious merit-based scholarship available to graduating high school seniors in the state. Forty Boettcher Scholars are selected annually to attend any of the 16 four-year accredited colleges and universities in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, and all must be in the top 5 percent of their graduating high school class.

Editors: On July 25 at 1 p.m., reporters and photographers are invited to view the mammoth skull and tour the Lamb Spring site, beginning at the Roxborough State Park visitor center. Researchers from ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and representatives from the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Historical Society and the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board will attend. For more information and directions to the visitor center call graduate student Heidi Quist at (303) 870-4161.

Tim Palmer of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in England will address the value of ensemble forecast techniques in a free talk on Friday, July 19, at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder. Palmer's talk, "Predicting Weather and Climate: A Risky Business," will give examples of ensemble forecasting techniques and demonstrate their applications in crisis weather events such as flooding.

Robert T. Craig, professor and department chair of communication at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder, will become president-elect of the International Communication Association at its 52nd annual conference convening in Seoul, Korea, July 15-19.