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Twenty-five journalists from the United States and Canada, along with two senior environmental policy advisers from Mongolia, are scheduled to attend the second annual Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment May 14-19 at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder. The institute, hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Center for Environmental Journalism, is a week-long educational program for journalists who cover environmental issues.

The State Farm Fire and Casualty Insurance Co. and State Farm General Insurance Co. have donated $100,000 toward an endowed chair to honor University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder Professor Emeritus Gilbert F. White, known worldwide as the "father of floodplain management." Becky Turner of State Farm's regional office in Greeley presented the check in a May 2 ceremony at the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Natural Hazards Center. The ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Foundation is hoping to raise $3 million to endow the chair by White's 90th birthday on Nov. 26.

Jason Riley and Kelly Shelton, two graduate students in integrated marketing communications at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder, have been awarded $8,000 fellowships to attend a national seminar at Harvard University this June, sponsored by the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation. The seminar is limited to 30 participants. According to Tom Duncan, IMC faculty adviser, the foundation's decision to give two awards to students from the same university is rare and highlights these students' exceptional work experience and strong academic performance.

With about 20,000 people expected to attend the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder commencement exercises May 11 at 9:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium, attendees should plan to arrive early.

Hurricane evacuation and world-class bicycle wheels were the two topics that six students from the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder modeled while competing against math teams from around the world. Both ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ teams placed in the competition, one receiving a meritorius award and the other an honorable mention.

Special recognition ceremonies will be hosted by most University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder schools and colleges in addition to the main university commencement ceremony on Friday, May 11, at 9:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium. Following is a schedule of special events in the schools and colleges to honor the graduates, their families and guests. * May 10 at 3 p.m. in Macky Auditorium, School of Journalism and Mass Communication recognition ceremony, with reception to follow. Jim Gray, an NBC sports reporter and ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder alumnus, will be the speaker.

The Student Organization for Alumni Relations has announced the 2001 teaching award recipients of the 40th Annual Teaching Recognition Awards at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder. Presented each spring since 1962, SOAR's Teaching Recognition Awards honor faculty members who excel in the classroom. The SOAR awards are the only faculty honors in which the selection and administration is done by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder undergraduate students. Awarded in four class-size categories, each winner receives $1,500 from the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Parents Association and the Alumni Association's Directors Club.

Beyond its core focus of supporting ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder's five foreign language departments on campus, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder's Anderson Language Technology Center has existing outreach programs and several new ones planned for fall 2001 to expose Coloradans to foreign language offerings not widely available in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥. ALTEC Director Kuan-Yi Rose Chang believes the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ programs will help schools throughout the state improve their foreign language instruction and help the state gradually expand foreign language offerings in public schools.

Taiwan native Kuan-Yi Rose Chang is on a mission to broaden the cultural awareness and foreign language skills of University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ students and Coloradans. An adjunct professor of Spanish and Chinese and director of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder's Anderson Language Technology Center (ALTEC), Chang believes that globalization and the rapid growth of minority populations in the United States increasingly demands that Americans broaden their understanding of other cultures. Part of the broadening process also should include expanding Americans' foreign language skills, she says.

Chancellor Richard Byyny has announced that 18 new Boettcher Scholars have chosen to attend the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder next fall, ranking ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder as the top school in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, public or private, for attracting new Boettcher Scholars.