Daily Bulletin, Friday, August 12 ENVIRONMENTAL WINNER: Lynn Roberts, a U.S.-based professor who received her master's degree from the University of Waterloo, has been awarded a 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award for research in environmental chemistry. Roberts, an assistant professor at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was one of two researchers in the United States chosen to receive the award that can provide up to $100,000 US a year for five years in federal and private funds. Most of Roberts' research involves investigating contaminants in aquatic systems and developing improved technologies for remedying contaminated groundwater. She received her bachelor's degree in geology from Pomona College, and worked as a consulting hydrogeologist. Roberts earned her master's in contaminant hydrogeology from UW and obtained a PhD in environmental chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. LUNCHING AT CONCERT: Admirers of classical music ought to take in a special lunch-hour concert to be performed next Thursday on campus. What's billed as a Small Lunch Concert by Recorder Duo Abacus (Andrej Brodnik and Pekka Kilpelainen), will be held that day at 12.15 p.m. in the CS lounge, Davis Centre, Room 2310. The program comprises two baroque pieces: a duet by G. Ph. Telemann and a suite by J. M. Hotteterre le Romain. DUNKING DONUTS: Business is brisk at the Mathematics Society's Coffee and Donut Shop, now open all year round. Brenda Wilson, manager of the non-profit operation, said that with the recent hiring of a full-time assistant, the shop can serve customers during this month for the first time. It is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. "We've been planning for years to be open in August," Wilson said, adding that the assistant will run the shop while she can take her vacation. Not that August is a slow period. "We expect a lot of business from 200 high school students who are coming next week to learn about computers," she said. The shop will be closed September 1- 2 for inventory, as well as Labor Day on September 5. The shop, which sells an assortment of sandwiches, pastries and, of course, coffee (regular and flavored) and doughnuts, attracts about 1,000 customers a day during the peak times of fall and winter. "Our prices are competitive -- we sell a 10-ounce cup of coffee for only 60 cents." VOICE-MAIL REPAIR: It's just for a couple of hours, but the voice-mail system at UW will be down today between 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for maintenance, said Joan Wiley, manager of telephone services. UTILITY SHUTDOWNS: The Campus Centre and Health Services buildings will undergo a utility shutdown from 8 a.m. to noon tomorrow, said Dave Churchill, director of technical services at plant operations. The electrical power will be switched off in order to hook up the new transformer in the electrical room, he said. Also, Federation Hall will face a utility shutdown all next week, starting at 8 a.m. Monday and ending Sunday at 3 p.m. Fans and air conditioning will be affected so special controls can be upgraded. EXAMS OVER: Tomorrow is the last day for examinations in the spring term. Final exam results are due August 19. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: The best of everything for Prof. Paul Niessen, of the mechanical engineering department, who celebrates today. John Morris, Jim Fox UW News Bureau, (519) 888-4444 jmorris@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca jfox@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca