Applications now available for upcoming ASUA election

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona have announced that elections have begun. The positions currently available include:
· President
· Executive Vice President
· Administrative Vice President
· 10 openings in Senate

Packets are currently available at the ASUA front desk, located on the third floor of the Student Union Memorial Center, or contact the Elections Office at 621-4631.

University alumna receives the first ĪPrize for Promise'

Natalia Komarova, a top young mathematician in biology and a 1998 graduate of the University of Arizona, is the winner of the first "Prize for Promise."

The award "recognizes young women of exceptional ability, ambition, boldness, brilliance and dedication within their field of expertise."

Komarova, who has a master's and a doctorate from the UA program in applied mathematics, is currently a mathematics professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

She graduated with highest honors from Moscow State University in her native Russia and is considered one of the top young mathematicians in the field of theoretical biology.

She will receive a $100,000 award given by Student Achievement and Advocacy Services.

Ceremony to commemorate nursing college professors

In honor of the three professors who lost their lives on Oct. 28, 2002, representatives from the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Engineering and Mines and Science will plant three trees on the west side of the College of Nursing on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 2 p.m.

Families of Cheryl McGaffic, Barbara Monroe and Robin Rogers, and College of Nursing representatives will be present at the ceremony and memorial planting.

Faculty, staff and students from the Colleges of Nursing, Agriculture and Life sciences, Engineering and Mines, and Science will attend the brief dedication ceremony and reception.

Flandrau Science Center to debut special gold exhibit

The Flandrau Science Center is opening a special exhibit, titled "Flandrau's Desert Gold Rush," featuring more than 130 specimens of natural gold, collectively worth millions of dollars.

Flandrau's Desert Gold Rush will display naturally occurring gold specimens from the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, two private collections, and the University of Arizona Mineral Museum.

On public display will be dozens of samples from the mines of the great California Gold Rush of 1849, including some that were owned by William P. Blake, one of the very first professors at the University of Arizona.

The exhibit will debut on Saturday.