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The University of Colorado at Boulder will confer 4,043 degrees on Friday, May 11, and invest its 20th president, Elizabeth Hoffman, during the spring commencement ceremony. Commencement will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium, regardless of the weather, and will last about an hour and a half.

More CU-Boulder business students study abroad through campus-sponsored programs than students in any other major or field of study, according to the Study Abroad Office. During the 1999-2000 academic year, 98 business majors - or approximately 20 percent of all CU students who studied abroad - participated in a CU-sponsored study abroad program.

Anne Flint Anne Flint will receive a bachelor's degree in history at CU-Boulder on May 11, after a 30-year effort that included five schools, a cross-country move and the birth of a son. Flint, 48, started school with the notion of becoming a professor, but that goal changed as life went on, she said. Never losing sight of her ultimate goal, however, she has chipped away at it bit by bit.

The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law will hold its 20th Annual Alumni Awards Banquet on May 5 at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. The ceremony, which will honor alumni for "distinguished achievement," begins with dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by the presentation of awards an hour later. Dean Hal Bruff will open the program and Don P. Brown, Jr. ('89), chair of the Law Alumni Board, will be the master of ceremonies. Folllowing are this year's recipients:

James Barron, a junior at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been honored with the 2001-2002 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Barron currently holds a 3.94 GPA as a double major in physics and math, and plans to graduate in May 2002 and then attend graduate school. Barron also is performing high-energy physics research with Professor Uriel Nauenberg in the physics department. The $7,500 award is one of 302 granted to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from across the nation and Puerto Rico, and one of five from within Colorado.

Editors: Richard Fuld will be available for interviews. Contact Susan Kelley, (303) 492-2823, or Lori Call, (303) 492-0786, to arrange. The chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers Inc., an alumnus of the CU-Boulder College of Business, will deliver the commencement address at the college's Graduate School of Business recognition ceremony on Friday, May 11. Richard S. Fuld, chairman and CEO of the global investment bank, will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium on the Boulder campus.

A landscaping layout tool based on global positioning system technology, a vending machine that develops and prints photos and a furniture and interior design store targeted at college students are among the eight business ideas that may qualify to compete for $5,000 on May 2. Students who created these plans and others will participate in the Spring 2001 Undergraduate Business Plan Competition at the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Business.

Three important events will mark the graduation of 167 students on May 11 at the University of Colorado School of Law commencement. The endowment of the J.J. Witt Memorial Law Scholarship will be announced; Gail Klapper will receive the Honorary Order of the Coif; and Jim Hightower, a man profiled on the CBS news show "60 Minutes" and listed by the National Journal as one of the 150 individuals "who make a difference," will give the keynote address.

More than 300 Chicano, Latino and black high school students from the Boulder Valley School District will gather at the University of Colorado at Boulder for the fourth annual Latino Youth Conference on Wednesday, May 2. The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University Memorial Center. Participating schools include Arapahoe Ridge, Boulder High, Broomfield High, Centaurus High, Fairview High, Monarch High, Nederland High and New Vista High.

University of Colorado at Boulder history Professor Robert Schulzinger will give a public talk Wednesday, May 9, at 7 p.m., about the opportunities and challenges of Vietnam's integration into the global market. Schulzinger's talk, "The United States and Vietnam Today: Globalization on Trial," is free and open to the public and is part of the Chancellor's Community Lecture Series. The talk will be in the Chapel at The Academy building at 970 Aurora Ave. in Boulder.