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A University of Colorado at Boulder geology student detected 23 small earthquakes within a 50-mile radius of Boulder during a three-month period last fall. The earthquakes ranged from magnitude 0.5 to 2.0 on the Richter scale. The smallest earthquake a person is able to feel is about magnitude 3, and a quake of 3.5 can cause slight damage.

A team of faculty and students from the University of Colorado at Boulder will fly an ultraviolet spectrograph on a NASA sounding rocket from White Sands, N.M., March 24 to probe the chemical makeup of comet Hale-Bopp.

Sociology Professor Gary T. Marx of the University of Colorado at Boulder has been named a 1997-98 Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The fellowships are among the most coveted and competitive in the social sciences and humanities and are offered only to about 3 percent of all applicants. Marx will continue his work on the social implications of new information technologies.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Division of Continuing Education now offers nine courses over the World Wide Web in a variety of subjects. The on-line courses are interactive, using one or more of the features of the Internet for conducting instruction via computer. Students can take the courses from anywhere in the world with Internet access, making e-mail and Web connections from their homes, offices, libraries or other locations equipped with connected computers.

Three undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder are finalists for 1997 Truman Scholarships in the nationwide competition. The students, Michelle Gawerc, Ranya Ghuma and Phillip Juengst, have been interviewed for the scholarship, which awards up to $30,000 for students who demonstrate leadership ability, academic achievement, commitment to public service and potential to “make a difference.”

Thirteen graduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder designed the “Give Kids 5” campaign now airing on radio and TV to promote the child care checkoff that appears for the first time on the 1996 Colorado income tax form. The campaign, which urges taxpayers to donate five minutes of their time or $5 to benefit Colorado children, was designed for the Colorado Children’s Campaign by CU-Boulder graduate students in an interdisciplinary journalism and business program.

Thirteen graduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder designed the “Give Kids 5” campaign now airing on radio and TV to promote the child care checkoff that appears for the first time on the 1996 Colorado income tax form. The campaign, which urges taxpayers to donate five minutes of their time or $5 to benefit Colorado children, was designed for the Colorado Children’s Campaign by CU-Boulder graduate students in an interdisciplinary journalism and business program.

NEWS TIP SHEET Former Biosphere 2 Inhabitants to Speak at CU-Boulder March 17 Two American scientists who spent two years inside the Biosphere 2 dome near Oracle, Ariz., from 1991 to 1993 will speak about their experiences during a presentation at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, March 17. The talk will be held from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in room ECCR 1B40 of the engineering center. Sponsored by Bioserve Space Technologies Center and the aerospace engineering department, the event is free and open to the public.

University of Colorado School of Law Professor Norton Steuben has accepted a two-year assignment from the U.S. Treasury DepartmentÂ’s Office of Technical Assistance to serve as resident tax policy adviser to the government of Ukraine. A faculty member since 1968, Steuben will begin his residence in July in Kiev, Ukraine, which gained its independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. Steuben is an expert on tax law and real estate law and has received the universityÂ’s prestigious PresidentÂ’s Teaching Scholars award.

Two teams of University of Colorado law students captured first and second place in a regional moot court competition on trademark and unfair competition law in San Francisco. The winning team will proceed to the 1997 national finals in Washington, D.C., on March 22. Placing first and winning the best oralists and best briefs awards were Nancy Fogle of Boulder and Kirstin Stoll of Thornton. Second place went to Marco Chayet of Boulder, Brad Hattenbach of Westminster and Kate Wingard of Boulder.