Audio research stories

Editors: Photos, bios and show notes are available on the festival press Web site, http://www.theatre.colorado.edu/csfmedia02 The long tradition of lampooning William Shakespeare continues with "Shakespeare In Briefs!" starting July 6 at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.

Chris Green, professor of economics from McGill University of Montreal, to speak on "Stabilizing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: What Will it Take?" on Wednesday, July 10, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Green's talk will begin at 3 p.m. in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences auditorium, room 338. The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by CIRES' Center for Science and Technology Policy Research.

"Medieval Treasures: Books and Manuscripts from the 9th to the 15th Centuries" is now on display in the Norlin Library Special Collections department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The exhibit features classical and popular works in addition to medieval service books. Other highlights include two complete 13th century Parisian Bibles, examples of fragments and decorated borders, an English private letter and the work of two 15th century Florentine scribes.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Physics 2000 Web site has been honored by Scientific American magazine with a 2002 Sci-Tech Web Award for physics. Scientific American editors selected five Web sites in each of 10 scientific categories to receive the awards. The winning sites are posted on the Scientific American Web site at www.sciam.com .

The Study Abroad Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder has awarded more than $152,000 in scholarships and grants to students enrolled in study abroad programs in summer 2002. The aid comes from the program's auxiliary accounts, alumni donations, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education Diversity Fund, foundation donations, the Council on International Exchange, Denmark International Study, the Boettcher Foundation and the Freeman Foundation.

The oft-criticized committee system in the U.S. House of Representatives resists change because it serves its members well, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder political science professor. Advocates of congressional reform often point to the House committee system as an outmoded relic that could benefit from changes to make it more efficient and accountable. But since the late 1940s the system has changed little.

Ten new Daniels Scholars have elected to attend the University of Colorado at Boulder this fall, according to Cynthia Gayles, CU-Boulder's senior assistant director of admissions and Daniels Scholarship liaison.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder are working to pinpoint rapidly melting glaciers and ice fields they believe may hold human artifacts and other organic materials, which could revolutionize anthropological theories and provide invaluable clues to human migration, colonization and adaptation dating back thousands of years.

An accomplished actor of Broadway, regional and touring theater will lead the cast of CU Opera's "The Pirates of Penzance," opening on July 6. Ben Saypol, 29, one of CU-Boulder's newest graduate music students, has appeared on Broadway and in a film starring Kevin Bacon. One of the most memorable moments during his five-year stint as a professional actor came during a successful audition for the role of Tony in the touring company of "West Side Story."

James F. Williams II, dean and director of the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, is the 2002 recipient of the American Library Association's Melvil Dewey Medal, which recognizes distinguished service to the profession of librarianship. The award is given to an individual or group for recent creative professional achievement in library management, training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship. The medal was presented June 18 during the ALA's annual conference in Atlanta.