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The University of Colorado at Boulder will welcome almost 5,000 newly admitted freshman students along with their parents to two-day orientation programs starting June 14 and ending Aug. 23. All of the orientation sessions in June and July are for students admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences or the College of Business and Administration.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will begin removing six structures in the Grandview Terrace area on June 18th, CU facilities management officials said today. Jeff Lipton, executive director of Facilities Management, said none of the first six buildings received offers for relocation.

The CU Parents Association at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a series of orientation dinners for parents of incoming students in June and July at the University Club. The dinners coincide with orientation sessions for new freshmen and transfer students and provide opportunities for new CU-Boulder parents to become acquainted with the association's board members, the Office of Parent Relations and staff from student affairs programs and services.

The University of Colorado at Boulder plans to continue its efforts to reduce high-risk drinking when the five-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation expires, university officials said. The $860,000 grant is currently scheduled to expire in August.

The Black Biomedical Research Movement at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a presentation by Virginia Richardson, cancer survivor, at the Juneteenth Black Health Expo at the Gipson Eastside Family Health Center, 501 28th St. in Denver, on June 15 from 1:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Richardson, a single mother of three children, will give a lecture on her efforts to promote minority health care.

Astronomers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a key building block for new stars in the rapidly expanding remains of an ancient stellar explosion. Presented at the 197th meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting June 3 to June 7 in Pasadena, Calif., the study provides insights into the early stages of a process by which violent stellar explosions help produce new stars.

Aswad Allen is the new director of the CU-Boulder College of Business's Diversity and Minority Programs, business Dean Steven Manaster announced. "We created this position because diversity is a top priority of our school," Manaster said. "Aswad's experience will help advance the college's goals of implementing a broader scope of initiatives. He brings a comprehensive background of leading diversity programs and will help us move this priority to the next level."

Two decades after questions about safety and the disposal of radioactive waste effectively halted the development of nuclear power in the United States, the nuclear industry is once again being considered as a viable source of energy. But investors planning to climb on the nuclear bandwagon should be aware of the significant cleanup costs that these plants will incur in the future, according to a new study published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Randy A. Bartels, a doctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was selected by the Department of Energy to attend the 51st convention of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany, from June 25 to June 29. An electrical engineering doctoral student from the University of Michigan, Bartels is pursuing his doctoral dissertation research at JILA in the field of ultrafast optics. JILA is a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology based on the CU-Boulder campus.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host the 2001 Summer Boulder Campus Blood Drive in the south parking lot of the Administrative and Research Center, 3100 Marine St., on the East Campus. The blood drive is open to the public and will be held June 15 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Those interested in donating should sign up for an appointment by calling (303) 492-5473 through June 14 at 3 p.m.