USGS Director To Address Agency's 125-year History In CU-Boulder Lecture April 8

March 28, 2004

U.S. Geological Survey Director Chip Groat will discuss the agency's 125-year history as one of the world's leading science organizations in an April 8 lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "United States Geological Survey: 125 Years of Science for America" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 1B50. The talk is sponsored by the CU-Boulder Center of the American West and is free and open to the public.

Two CU-Boulder Teams Named Outstanding Winners In International Math Competition

March 28, 2004

Two University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduate teams have been named Outstanding Winners in the prestigious Mathematical Contest in Modeling sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications. And that's out of only 11 Outstanding Winners named from a field of 742 entering teams.

CU-Boulder's Student Concert And Event Organizers Gather For Reunion April 2-3

March 23, 2004

Memories of concerts, films and events in the storied 51-year history of the student-run University of Colorado at Boulder Program Council will be shared April 2 and April 3 when current and former event organizers gather at the university for a weekend reunion.

'Healing The Southern Rockies Ecoregion' Is Topic Of April 7 CU-Boulder Lecture

March 23, 2004

Research Associate Hannah Gosnell of the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 7 will lecture on conservationists' efforts to restore and "rewild" the Southern Rockies ecoregion, which includes Colorado's Western Slope and parts of southwestern Wyoming and northwestern New Mexico. "Healing the Southern Rockies Ecoregion: What Will it Take?" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House at 900 Baseline Road in Boulder. The talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

Opportunities And Pitfalls Of Technology Startups Focus Of CU Conference

March 23, 2004

Note to Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend without charge. To arrange, call Kley Achterhof at (303) 735-5633 or e-mail kley.achterhof@colorado.edu . Examining the financing strategies of Internet and telecommunications startup firms during the boom and bust of the 1990s will be one of several topics addressed in a panel discussion March 30 at CU-Boulder's Fourth Annual Silicon Flatirons Conference on Startup Businesses.

CU-Boulder Panel Examines Columbine Media Coverage Five Years Later On April 1

March 22, 2004

How the Columbine tragedy changed Colorado journalists and their newsrooms will be the topic of an April 1 panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Discussing the story behind the story will be John Temple, editor of the Rocky Mountain News; Michelle Fulcher, former national editor of The Denver Post; and Roger Simpson, director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the University of Washington. The event will be held from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 1, in Eaton Humanities Building room 250.

CU-Boulder Satellite Developers Celebrate One Year Of Operations

March 16, 2004

An $88 million NASA satellite designed and built by the University of Colorado at Boulder launched in late January 2003 to study variations in the sun is performing flawlessly after more than a year in orbit, scientists say. Launched aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, or SORCE, was developed to study how and why variations in the sun affect Earth's atmosphere and climate.

CU-Boulder Scientist Named Aldo Leopold Fellow

March 16, 2004

A University of Colorado at Boulder expert on landscape ecology and prairie dog disease has been named a 2004 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in recognition of her outstanding leadership ability and desire to communicate scientific issues beyond academic audiences. Associate Professor Sharon Collinge is among 20 Leopold fellows selected this year from around the United States and Guam. Collinge holds a joint appointment in the CU-Boulder department of ecology and evolutionary biology and environmental studies.

'The Accelerating Universe' Is Topic Of Harvard Professor's March 30 Public Lecture At CU

March 16, 2004

Robert Kirshner, a Harvard University astrophysicist and author, will discuss how the light of distant exploding stars could validate one of Einstein's most controversial theories during a March 30 lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "A Blunder Undone: The Accelerating Universe" will be held in Macky Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

AIDS Symposium At CU-Boulder Starts With Desmond Tutu March 29

March 14, 2004

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu will kick off a six-day "Stop the Silence" AIDS symposium March 29 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, is the keynote speaker of the symposium that includes advocates and scholars from CU-Boulder and Harvard University. Tutu will discuss his new book, "God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times," at 7 p.m. in the Coors Events/Conference Center.

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