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April 11, 2005

Because of a scheduling conflict, the date of the April Skywatch presentation at Kansas Wesleyan University has been changed to Saturday (April 16).

Kansas Wesleyan alumna Stefanie Milam, a doctoral student in astrochemistry at the University of Arizona, was scheduled to be the Skywatch speaker on Friday. The presentation has been changed, however, because Milam has been named the recipient of an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) award from the Phoenix, Arizona, chapter of the ARCS Foundation. This prestigious award, which provides a $6,000 renewable scholarship to the recipient, will be presented to Milam on Friday in Phoenix.

According to the Phoenix chapter’s website, the ARCS Foundation is a national organization dedicated to providing scholarship support to academically talented students majoring in the fields of natural science, medicine, and engineering. To qualify for an ARCS scholarship a student must have a high scholastic record, proven ability in a scientific field, and be a citizen of the United States.

Milam’s Skywatch presentation at Kansas Wesleyan is now scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in 229 Peters Science Hall, with some time also spent in the university’s observatory. The event is open to the public at no charge.