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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.

Brown dwarfs, essentially stunted stars, were most likely ejected from newborn, multiple-star systems before they had a chance to accumulate enough mass to ignite the hydrogen in their interiors and flower, according to a new study. University of Colorado at Boulder astronomer Bo Reipurth said that most newborn stars are spawned in binary or multiple systems involving two, three, four, five or even more stars. Just as newborn mammals on Earth compete with each other for milk, newborn stars in multiple systems compete for gaseous matter that generates speedy growth, he said.

One of the most violent phenomena in astronomy - supernovae - will be the topic of a live astronomy show at CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, July 13, at 8 p.m. University of Colorado at Boulder astronomy Professor Richard McCray will delve into the subject of supernovae, looking at everything from ancient Chinese inscriptions to current observations of these rare stars and how these observations are used to measure the expansion of the universe.

For the second year in a row, the University of Colorado School of Law is ranked among the top five state law schools in the country and among the top 10 overall for placing graduates in judicial clerkship positions.