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The wonders of the summer sky and tips on observing the International Space Station will be presented at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium during the live astronomy show "Boulder Skies" on Tuesday, June 19, at 8 p.m. Fiske lecturers Sanlyn Buxner and Deidre Brucker will guide the audience on a tour of Boulder's magnificent view of the heavens and will discuss upcoming celestial events.

Dr. Hobart M. Smith, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, received the 2001 W. F. Blair Eminent Naturalist Award from the Southwestern Association of Naturalists at the association's annual meeting in Fort Hays, Kansas, in April. The association presents the Blair Award in recognition of excellence in a lifetime of commitment to outstanding study or conservation of the flora or fauna of the Southwest.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is hosting a weekend of festivities allowing participants to share in Arapaho culture through art, stories and songs as well as the opportunity to learn the Arapaho language from June 7 through June 10. The first-ever Arapaho Nation Cultural Festival and "No-eeckoohuut-Coming Home" Pow Wow celebrates the culture and homeland of the Arapaho Tribe in the Boulder Valley and Colorado.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend any of the sessions on June 5. The 10:30 a.m. physics presentation will feature explosions and other visual effects. The tour of Henderson Museum beginning at 12:40 p.m. will feature a live owl and an educational talk. More than 300 seventh graders from middle schools throughout Colorado will get a glimpse of campus life and a pitch to go to college at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Tuesday, June 5, as part of the state's GEAR-UP initiative to get low-income youths into college.

New observations with the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii indicate three of the youngest massive star clusters yet detected each are swaddled in dust cocoons at least 600 trillion miles across, providing new clues to the evolution of the early universe.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until Monday, June 4, at 9 a.m. PDT. The AAS Press Room telephone numbers are (626) 844-6037, -6038 and -6039. The vast majority of wannabe planets in the universe are likely destroyed by cosmic forces long before they have a chance to evolve from dusty disks circling their parent stars, according to University of Colorado at Boulder researchers.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has signed a four-year agreement with the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) for management of university product licensing. CLC, a premier licensing organization, is the agent responsible for licensed collegiate products at such institutions as the universities of North Carolina, Michigan, Texas and Stanford.

Ever wonder what it would feel like to be sucked into a black hole? Audience members will have the chance to fall into an artificial black hole and participate in other activities at the Saturday, June 16, CU Wizards show "Black Holes." Professor Andrew Hamilton of the astrophysical and planetary sciences department will demonstrate the concepts of black holes in CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium at 9:30 a.m. and again at 11:30 a.m.

Joan Padilla, Attorney General's office, Landa Heys, Center for Study and Prevention of Violence, CU-Boulder, Christie McElhinney, The Colorado Trust, Denver--Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar, John R. Moran, Jr., president of The Colorado Trust, and Dr. Delbert Elliott, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at CU-Boulder (Violence Prevention Center), announced efforts to help Colorado schools and communities prevent youth violence. These new efforts are:

The ends often do justify the means -- at least when it comes to political elections. That's the conclusion of a recent study conducted by psychologists at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In the study, Professors Lyle Bourne and Charles Judd, along with graduate student Noelle LaVoie, found that the public's judgment of a politician's ethical conduct during an election may depend on the subsequent success or failure of his or her policies.