Career Services Seeks Donations of Business Wear
Career Services is seeking donations of gently worn business attire to help CU-Boulder students dress appropriately for their first interviews. “Suit Yourself” is a one-year-old program sponsored by Career Services, the Multicultural Business Student Association, and the Multicultural Engineering Program. Donations of interview-appropriate attire will be accepted now through Sept. 9 in Career Services (Willard Hall, garden level), or by contacting Ann Herrmann (303-492-8020 or ann.herrmann@colorado.edu) to arrange for a pick-up. Donations are tax-deductible.

Your suits will be displayed and sold to students at bargain prices (full suits will be priced at just $15) on Wed., Sept. 14 (10 am-7 pm in UMC 245) with a business fashion show following the sale at 5:30-6:30 p.m. in UMC Room 235.  Proceeds will benefit the Multicultural Business Student Association and the Multicultural Engineering Program.
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Honors and Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.

Faculty
Al Weimer of chemical and biological engineering received the 2005 U.S. Dept. of Energy Hydrogen Program R&D Award in Washington DC, "in recognition of outstanding achievement in R&D for solar-driven, high-temperature thermo-chemical cycles for hydrogen production.” 

Students
The CU chapter of Engineers Without Borders and its partners (UW-Madison and two universities in Rwanda) received the international Mondialogo Engineering Award and an $18,000 prize for their long-term sustainable engineering project in Rwanda. The team was one of seven winners from universities in the U.S. and 21 from throughout the world, announced May 30 at a ceremony in Berlin, Germany. The winners, which were selected from 412 entering teams, received a total of 300,000 Euros in prize money from DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO.

Computer science majors Nels Anderson, Gaurav Kulkarni, Adam Bender, Anuradha Kumar, and Isaac Sanders won the department’s 2005 Lloyd Fosdick award for exemplary collaborative projects involving undergraduates for their project, “Mirage - Location-Based Spatial Wiki.”

Tipp Moseley, a doctoral candidate in computer science, won the department’s Clive Fraser Baillie Memorial Travel Award to attend the 2005 Computing Frontiers conference in Ischia, Italy.

Soontaree Tanaraksiritavorn and Gary Yee were named Outstanding TAs for Fall 2004 by the computer science department. Each received a certificate and cash prize of $200.

Ryan Soderquist, doctoral student in chemical and biological engineering, received a poster award for his presentation at the Front Range Neuroscience meeting in May.

Alexia Finotello and April Kloxin, doctoral students in chemical and biological engineering, received NASA Fellowships that will support their graduate work for the next several years.

Mike Ross, doctoral student in aerospace engineering sciences, is one of two winners of the department’s John A. Vise award for excellence in academics, research and community service. He also received a USACM travel award to attend the U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics in Austin, Texas, in July.

Jeffrey Parker, doctoral student in aerospace engineering sciences, has been awarded a three-year NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellowship for research in the area of mission design in the Sun-Earth-Moon system.  He also was a recent winner of the department's John A. Vise Award.