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CU-Boulder Professors Patricia Nelson Limerick and Charles Wilkinson will celebrate the life of the late environmental writer T.H. Watkins in a special event on Monday, Jan. 29. Watkins, who died last year, will be honored with the 1999 Wallace Stegner Award from the CU-Boulder Center of the American West, which Limerick and Wilkinson co-founded. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 150 on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Warmer surface temperatures during summers can cause more ice on Antarctica ice shelves to melt into standing water ponds, then leak into cracks and increase the odds of collapse, according to a new study published by an American team of scientists. Led by Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder, the team focused on the Larsen Ice Sheet on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Larsen Ice Sheet experienced major retreats in 1995 and 1998, including more than 775 square miles that disintegrated during a January 1995 storm.

Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder will explore the dynamics of the solar system and the way it was shaped by millions of collisions in "Cosmic Collisions and Our Solar System," Friday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium.

Joseph Juhasz, professor of architecture and environmental design at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named president-elect of the population and environmental division of the American Psychological Association. Juhasz will begin serving a one-year term as president in August. The APA division, also known as Division 34, includes about 400 members studying the psychology of natural and constructed environments, as well as population psychology.

University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Patrick Allen will continue the ChancellorÂ’s Community Lecture Series on Wednesday, Jan. 17, with his presentation "Scientist Turns Activist: The Black Biomedical Research Movement."

The wonder of the cold, winter sky will be viewed from the comfort of the Fiske Planetarium on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder during "Boulder Skies," Friday, Jan. 12, and Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m. During the show visitors will see images of the night sky and will track the movement of planets through the night skies in January and beyond. Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for seniors and children and will go on sale at 7 p.m. the night of the show.

New evidence for the presence of liquid water at or near the Earth's surface 4.3 billion years ago has been discovered by a team of scientists, hinting that the environments for life may have emerged on Earth much earlier than previously thought. According to University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor Steven Mojzsis, lead author of the study, the new research pushes back evidence for water on or near EarthÂ’s surface by roughly 400 million years.

CU-Boulder has assumed responsibility for completing the final reclamation of CU-Boulder South based on a plan previously approved by the state Division of Minerals and Geology, the agency overseeing reclamation of the property which has been under way for the past four years. The university is now the reclamation permit holder of record for the property located south of U.S. 36. The designation will allow the university to complete its responsibilities for the approved reclamation of the site.

The Scripps Howard Foundation has awarded a two-year grant of $100,000 to the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder to continue hosting the Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment. The institute, established last May, is a week-long educational program for journalists who cover environmental issues. "The success of the first institute demonstrates its value to the working journalists who have the responsibility of covering this vitally important issue," said Judith G. Clabes, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Foundation.

After an eight-year hiatus, CU-Boulder's popular Trivia Bowl is returning to campus April 2-6 to delight viewers and participants once again as teams match their wits on questions ranging from the sublime to the obscure. Team applications and bowl rules and regulations are now available on the Web at www.colorado.edu/programcouncil or through several offices at the University Memorial Center. Program Council, the entertainment branch of the UMC, will produce the bowl.