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MBA placement statistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder show that 1998 graduates of the full-time, two-year program will earn an average salary of $59,514 -- a 20 percent increase from 1997. In addition, 88 percent of all graduates were placed within three months of graduation, as were 91 percent of domestic students.

John Costanza, pioneer of the Demand Flow Technology management strategy that has revolutionized the manufacturing industry, will present a seminar for faculty and graduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, Nov. 30.

Although AIDS in the nation's black community has evolved into a full-blown epidemic, less than 1 percent of U.S. biomedical researchers are black, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder HIV researcher.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will present its 34th annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook Forum at 1:15 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 7. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, is in the grand ballroom of the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.

University of Colorado basketball fans can attend the womenÂ’s and menÂ’s games for just $1 on Nov. 27 and Dec. 2 by bringing a donation of a packaged, unprepared dessert to assist needy families during the holidays.

University of Colorado basketball fans can help needy children in Boulder County this holiday season by donating toys at upcoming menÂ’s and womenÂ’s games. The Nov. 28 womenÂ’s games and Dec. 5 menÂ’s game will host a toy drive to benefit the Toys for Tots program. Donations of new, unwrapped toys will be accepted at the door.

The third installment of the CU Wizards series at the University of Colorado at Boulder, "Boom! The Physics of Air Pressure and Sound," will be held on Saturday, Nov. 28 at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics room G-030. CU-Boulder physics instructor Michael Dubson will use exciting visual displays to explain several scientific phenomena including sonic booms, sound and the Bernoulli Principle.

Research into the environmental fate of aircraft deicing fluids under way at the University of Colorado at Boulder may result in new state limits on the discharge of deicing chemicals from Denver International Airport. Unless specially collected in a storm water system, deicing waste is discharged directly into the environment, contaminating soils and threatening aquatic life. Recent surveys showed that often less than 50 percent of deicing fluids applied to aircraft are recovered and treated.

University of Colorado at Boulder law Professor Richard Delgado was named the 18th annual Wayne Morse Professor of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The Wayne Morse Chair was established by an act of Congress to commemorate the fiercely independent and long-serving senator from Oregon. Previous occupants include former presidential candidates George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy, journalist Fred Friendly, former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth and lawyer John Echohawk.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research will hold free open houses on Friday, Nov. 20 and Saturday, Nov. 21 to showcase a variety of research conducted from Greenland to Antarctica.