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Fourteen students at the University of Colorado at Boulder have been awarded diversity scholarships to study in other countries in 1998-99. Two diversity scholarships, one awarded by ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder and the other by the Colorado Commission of Higher Education (CCHE), help cover expenses in the Study Abroad program for Colorado residents who are underrepresented on the Boulder campus because they are ethnic minorities or from the state's rural areas.

A University of Colorado at Boulder research team led by history Professor Robert Hohlfelder has discovered the remains of a 1,700-year-old Christian church submerged in shallow water in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern Turkey. The stone church, about 20 meters long and 10 meters wide, apparently was built sometime after 330 A.D. on the shoreline of the ancient city of Aperlae. As the shoreline subsided over the centuries due to earthquake activity, the church gradually sank about six feet into the clear Mediterranean water, said Hohlfelder.

Michael C. Grant, professor of environmental, population and organismic biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been selected to head up a new undergraduate education program aimed at highly motivated students with strong academic or creative abilities. The appointment, made by ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder Chancellor Richard L. Byyny, was approved last week by ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä President John C. Buechner.

Fred Glover, MediaOne professor at the College of Business and Administration at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder, has received the 1998 John Von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences. The prize, named in honor of mathematician and computer pioneer John Von Neumann, is awarded annually to the individual who has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.