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CU-Boulder's Printing and Copying Services has received certification as a Partner for a Clean Environment for its excellence in pollution prevention. The PACE certification program is a no-cost, local, voluntary and non-regulatory program that provides a free pollution prevention assessment. It also provides technical assistance specific to a company's business needs, access to innovative financing opportunities and public recognition of the organization's efforts to improve environmental conditions at its work site.

Three University of Colorado at Boulder professors have received 1998-99 Fulbright Awards to teach and conduct research at universities in Africa, South America and Europe. Two CU-Boulder students also received Fulbright Awards to study in other countries. Thomas Zeiler, assistant professor of history, will use his Fulbright Award to teach courses on U.S. diplomatic history and international economic history at the Universidad Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

New findings by a group of Colorado researchers indicates lightning could be the culprit in a number of unexplained fatal heart malfunctions in the outdoors in recent years, including some in the state's high mountains. In an article published in the June 13 issue of Lancet, a highly regarded medical journal published weekly in London, the Colorado team proposed that lightning can kill without a visible sign of electrical current entering or leaving a person's body.

The City of Boulder's Open Space Department and CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard L. Byyny will host a trail dedication ceremony to celebrate the expansion of the South Boulder Creek Trail on Monday, June 29 at 4 p.m. at the campus' Flatirons property. The trail dedication ceremony is free and open to the public.