CU Women In Engineering Sponsors Career Days For High School Women

Oct. 4, 2000

The Women in Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder has scheduled two Engineering Career Days for High School women this academic year. The all-day programs on Monday, Oct. 16, and Saturday, March 3, will introduce ninth grade- through 12th grade-women to the field of engineering and engage them in hands-on demonstrations and activities. Participants also will hear from professional women engineers, meet current engineering students and get a tour of the CU-Boulder campus.

CU-Boulder Athletes, Coaches And Chancellor To Deliver "Buffalo Hugs" To Children's Hospital

Oct. 4, 2000

Editors: Photographers are welcome to join the CU and Children聮s Hospital representatives in the lobby of the hospital at 11 a.m. Chancellor Byyny and the athletes also will visit children聮s rooms on all three floors of the hospital. Two hundred patients at Children聮s Hospital in Denver will receive their own "Buffalo Hug" pillows on Wednesday, Oct. 11, when the CU-Boulder Chancellor, coaches and student athletes deliver the cuddly companions to Children聮s Hospital President and CEO Doris J. Biester.

CU-Boulder Professor Delbert Elliott And Attorney General Ken Salazar To Speak At Louisville, Denver High Schools

Oct. 4, 2000

Professor Delbert Elliott, director of the CU-Boulder Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, and Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar will speak to high school students in Denver and Louisville about youth violence on Wednesday, Oct. 11.

Discovery Of Oldest Astronomical Site Is Focus Of Fiske Planetarium Show

Oct. 3, 2000

Evidence of the world聮s earliest known astronomical site discovered in the sediments of a dried lake in southern Egypt will be the topic of a live astronomy show at CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium this month. University of Colorado at Boulder astronomy Professor J. McKim Malville will present "Astronomy Before the Pyramids," on Friday, Oct. 13, and Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the planetarium.

CU-Boulder Photonics Directory Helps Industry Professionals

Oct. 3, 2000

The University of Colorado at Boulder Business Advancement Center has issued a new directory for Colorado聮s photonics industry. The multifaceted directory, the most comprehensive of its kind, offers current information about state and national photonics companies, as well as photonics consultants, organizations and federal laboratories. It also includes analyses of the Colorado and worldwide photonics industries.

Distinguished Scholars Debate School Desegregation Issues At CU Conference

Oct. 3, 2000

Whether the era of school desegregation is coming to an end and related questions will be addressed by leading legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, educators and litigators Oct. 13-14 at the University of Colorado School of Law in a conference titled "The End of School Desegregation?" The 8th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. conference will be in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom of the Fleming Law Building and is sponsored by the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law.

Diversity External Review Board To Visit CU-Boulder Oct. 11 And 12

Oct. 2, 2000

An external program review to assess diversity efforts at the University of Colorado at Boulder is scheduled for Oct. 11-12, with team members examining campus diversity plans and key strategies and progress for the four administrative divisions, schools and colleges. According to Ofelia Miramontes, associate vice chancellor for diversity and equity, the visit is important at this stage of implementing strategies because the input will help ensure campus efforts are moving in the right direction to meet the goals.

Colorado Collections Web Site Brings Artworks To The Public

Oct. 2, 2000

Art enthusiasts in Colorado, or anywhere in the world, can now log on to the CU Art Galleries聮 collection from the comfort of their homes, thanks to the galleries聮 Web site. The University of Colorado at Boulder site features 300 works of art from the CU Art Galleries聮 permanent holdings, called the Colorado Collection, accompanied by dozens of newly researched essays about the artists and the historic and cultural context of their art.

CU-Boulder's Lab For New Media Strategy And Design Announces Grant Recipients

Sept. 28, 2000

Six professors at the University of Colorado at Boulder have been selected to receive research grants from the Lab for New Media Strategy and Design. The lab, located in CU-Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is an initiative funded by Omnicom, the world聮s largest communications holding company. Omnicom聮s current interactive holdings include Agency.com, Organic, Red Sky Interactive, Rapp Digital, Eisnor Interactive, Nuforia, Razorfish and @tmosphere.

CU-Boulder Libraries Group Presents Glenn Miller Program

Sept. 28, 2000

"Portrait: Glenn Miller," a program centered on the life of the famous bandleader, will be presented on Thursday, Oct. 12, by the University of Colorado Friends of the Libraries. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel at The Academy, 970 Aurora Ave. in Boulder. The program is free and open to the public.

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