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The University of Colorado at Boulder will confer 1,177 degrees during the university's final summer commencement ceremony Saturday, Aug. 10, at 8:30 a.m. on the Norlin Quadrangle. Last winter, the Council of Deans, associate deans, Chancellor Richard L. Byyny and the commencement committee agreed to eliminate the CU-Boulder August commencement ceremony beginning in 2003, according to Jeanne McDonald, commencement coordinator. "This decision was made due to the low number of participants we have had at the August ceremony," McDonald said.

Northern and Southern Arapaho tribe members will gather for the 'coming back home' pow-wow or "Ce'no'eeckoohuut" beginning at 10 a.m. July 28 on the Norlin Quad at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "The pow-wow works to strengthen the bond between CU-Boulder and the Arapaho Tribe and promotes an excellent cultural education opportunity for everyone," said Leslee Caballero, co-coordinator for CU-Boulder's American Indian Student Services.

Two CU-Boulder chefs took home bronze medals in the "mystery basket" competition at the national Chef Culinary Conference held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Paul Houle of the University Club and David Kambic of Sewall Hall won their awards in an event that gave the chefs four hours to prepare a full meal with ingredients that were not revealed until the competition began.

Editors: Reporters who wish to attend the panel should contact Maureen Lienau at (303) 492-5773 beforehand. CU Professor and Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman will discuss the challenges and rewards of being a faculty member at a panel for the Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training program Aug. 1 at 1 p.m. in Duane Physics, room G131.

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 Colorado 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 CU-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 CU-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 Colorado 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, Colorado's monsoon season is already underway, according to Klaus Wolter, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado 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 Colorado, 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 CU-Boulder.

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado 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.