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Renowned planet hunter and University of California, Berkeley Professor Geoffrey Marcy, whose research team has discovered more than 100 planets outside the solar system, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 6. Marcy will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium in a free, public lecture titled "New Worlds, Yellowstone, and Life in the Universe." In his presentation, Marcy will address the possibility of habitable worlds beyond the solar system.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $833,000 by NASA for a 2007 sounding rocket mission to study high-altitude clouds believed to be tied to climate change. The sounding rocket will be launched from Norway to study noctilucent clouds, which form at Earth's poles at altitudes of about 50 miles in the portion of the atmosphere known as the mesosphere. First identified in 1885 in northern high latitudes, the clouds have been increasing in brightness and frequency.

A new Science Education Project at the University of Colorado at Boulder created and directed by Distinguished Professor and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman will incorporate research findings on effective science instruction in the classrooms of four CU-Boulder science departments beginning this fall.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a news conference on Monday, March 20, to announce the plans of Nobel laureate and Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman. Wieman, who has been a member of the CU-Boulder faculty since 1984 and who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2001 for his creation of the Bose-Einstein condensate, will begin an appointment with the University of British Columbia in January 2007. Wieman will retain a 20 percent appointment with CU-Boulder and will remain the director of the newly launched Science Education Project.