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Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an astronaut and fly in space? One lucky third, fourth or fifth-grade class from the Boulder area will have the chance to ask NASA astronauts these questions and more. The University of Colorado at Boulder and the Daily Camera in Education program have partnered to offer a contest for an hour-long one-on-one meeting with the astronauts, all of whom are CU-Boulder alumni. The class also will go on a field trip to the CU Heritage Center to see the space exhibit on Thursday, May 11, at 9 a.m.

High-stakes accountability testing is driving out better and more thoughtful means of assessing student learning, according to a prominent education researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "We have to make assessment in classrooms more useful, more helpful in learning," said Lorrie Shepard, professor of research methodology in the CU-Boulder School of Education and president of the 23,000-member American Educational Research Association.

Richard L. Byyny, chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, today outlined a series of actions he intends to take in response to an ad hoc committeeÂ’s recommendations on the manufacture of collegiate apparel. The actions include an incentive plan that will provide a 10 percent rebate on royalties paid as part of university contracts for licensed goods. The rebate will reward companies that are in compliance with the code of conduct recommended by the committee.

A 13-year-old boy who lost his arm during the Soviet bombing of Afghanistan more than a decade ago will soon regain a degree of function thanks to a team of CU-Boulder engineering students who have built him a prosthetic arm. The boy was injured by shrapnel from a bomb that fell near his backyard when he was just 2 years old. He lost his entire right arm and part of his shoulder in the incident.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will no longer accept applications from new freshmen for the fall term 2000, said Barbara Schneider, executive director of enrollment management for the campus. However, transfer student applications at this time will continue to be considered. A record number of applications has been received from both resident and non-resident students, and the freshman class may be as large as 4,917, up from 4,595 in l999.

J. Michael Giles, chairman of the Merrill Lynch International Banking Group, will present the Ben K. Miller Memorial International Business Lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 25. Giles will speak at 3:30 p.m. in room 100 of the Mathematics Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Office of Diversity and Equity at the University of Colorado at Boulder has awarded seven faculty, staff and students the 2000 Equity and Excellence Award. The awardees will be honored at the 15th Annual Equity and Excellence Awards Banquet and Graduation Ceremony on Thursday, April 27, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the University Memorial Center Glenn Miller Ballroom.

The University Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder has announced the winners of the 2000 High School Essay Contest. Beth Peck of Montezuma-Cortez High School in Cortez won first prize, a $1,000 scholarship to CU-Boulder, for her essay "Biblical Allusions in Robert Bolt’s ‘A Man for All Seasons.’ " David Feela, who was her sponsor, received the Benjamin and Jeanette Teaching Award of $250.

CU-Boulder English Professor Peter Michelson will use readings from his book "Pacific Plainsong" to illustrate the history of manifest destiny and the historical and moral implications of United States-American Indian relations on Thursday, May 4, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Michelson's talk, "Pacific Plainsong, or Why Laramie's Diamond Horseshoe is a Chinese Restaurant," sponsored by the Center of the American West will be from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 235, and is free and open to the public.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder will soon be distributing information collected by the Terra satellite, NASAÂ’s premier Earth Observing System spacecraft launched in December 1999. Terra is the first satellite to monitor how EarthÂ’s atmosphere, land, ocean, snow and ice cover, solar radiation and life influence the planet on a daily, global scale, according to NASA officials. Carrying five instruments, Terra is giving scientists a comprehensive view of Earth as a system and monitoring its long-term health.