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The University of Colorado at Boulder has become the 29th member of the Leadership Alliance, the premiere coalition of the nation's top research and teaching institutions seeking to increase the numbers of traditionally underrepresented students in graduate study. James H. Wyche, executive director of the Alliance and associate provost at Brown University, will visit the Boulder campus Monday and Tuesday July 16th and 17th. He will meet with CU-Boulder faculty Monday afternoon.

Elementary school teachers looking for ways to integrate math and science concepts in their classrooms will build pencil rockets and experiment with slingshot-propelled cars at a workshop sponsored by CU-Boulder's Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory July 16 through July 19. The "Kinetics for Kids" workshop introduces engineering to kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers from around Colorado through fun, hands-on activities that teachers can use in their own classrooms with a minimum of expense.

The Upward Bound program, now in its 21st year of operation at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is experiencing its highest attendance ever this year with two summer programs that began June 15th and end July 27th. Hailing from nine states, including California, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Oregon and North Carolina, 131 students are taking part in the original summer Upward Bound program and the more recently established Math and Science Center, now in its third year.

Editors: Construction of the electric/rocket-powered land vehicle is still in progress. Contact Janet DeGrazia, (303) 735-4763, to arrange photos or for information. With two new scholarships and several new partnerships, the Pre-Collegiate Development Programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder are continuing to expand their services.

A new study spearheaded by a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher that indicates male great white sharks roam Earth's oceans much more widely than females has implications for future conservation strategies for the storied and threatened fish.

The ups and downs of the financial industry from a physicist's perspective will be one of the topics explored during the July 23 lecture "My Manhattan Project: A Physicist's Adventures on Wall Street" at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Nigel Goldenfeld, a physics professor and diversity scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and participating faculty member in a summer physics institute at CU-Boulder, will present the free lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30 on the CU-Boulder campus.

The long history of changes in American Indian leadership due to inter-tribal and Indian-white relations will be discussed during a lecture on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Thursday, July 19, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. University of Kansas Professor Donald L. Fixico, a recognized leader in American Indian communities, will present the lecture "The Challenge for Modern American Indian Leadership," at the Benson Earth Sciences Building, room 185. The talk is free and open to the public.

Parking for the Dave Matthews Band concert at the University of Colorado's Folsom Stadium July 11 will be limited so concert goers are encouraged to carpool or take the bus if possible. The concert, sponsored by the CU Program Council and Bill Graham/Chuck Morris Presents, begins at 5:30 p.m. Folsom Stadium will open at 4 p.m. RTD bus schedules are posted on the RTD Web site at www.rtd-denver.com .

A 2-year-old collaboration between biomedical engineers at CU-Boulder and cardiologists at The Children's Hospital is starting to bear fruit with the development of several new miniaturized devices to assist doctors in the diagnosis and treatment of children with heart defects. Approximately 1 percent of all children are born with some form of congential heart disease, which is generally treated through surgical and catheter-based intervention. About 10 percent of these cases involve complications within the right side of the heart.

Editors: The workshop is not open to the public but reporters are welcome to attend. For a complete schedule of events call (303) 492-6818. Nearly 400 people will meet in Boulder July 15-18 when the University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center presents its 26th annual workshop dealing with floods, hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters.