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Distinguished Professor Charles Wilkinson of the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will read selections from his latest book, "Messages From Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties and the Indian Way" on April 16. The free event will be from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Public Library Auditorium, 11th Street and Arapahoe Avenue, and is open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow. The event is sponsored by the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Center of the American West, the Native American Rights Fund and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Public Library Foundation.

Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will tour the Milky Way during "City of Stars," Friday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium. The pre-recorded show explores some of Earth's galactic neighbors - stars, nebulae and clusters. Visitors also will tour distant galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Tickets go on sale at 7 p.m. the night of the show and are $4 for adults and $3 for seniors and children. Fiske Planetarium is located at Regent Drive and Kittredge Loop Drive on the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus.

Margaret Miles, one of America's leading scholars of religion and the body in late antiquity and medieval Europe, will present an illustrated lecture on "Achieving the Christian Body: Visual Incentives to Imitation of Christ in the 14th-15th Centuries" on Monday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities room 150 at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. Miles is dean, academic vice president and Dillenberger Professor of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will offer a variety of events in honor of Native American Awareness Week April 15-20 including a children's Pow Wow, a concert and a session with storyteller and magician Autumn Morning Star. All activities are free and open to the public and were organized by Oyate, CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's indigenous student organization. This year's events focus on the performing arts, according to Theresa Halsey, Oyate's community adviser.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will kick off a new campus-wide interdisciplinary program in Developing Areas Research and Teaching with a lecture series in April. Geography Professor Stuart Corbridge of the University of Miami and the London School of Economics will kick off the lecture series with a talk on "Development as Freedom: The Spaces of Amartya Sen," on Friday, April 13, at 4 p.m. in Eaton Humanities room 150.

The CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø MBA entrepreneurship program was rated 16th in the nation in a ranking of graduate entrepreneurship programs released April 2 by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The ranking placed CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's MBA entrepreneurship program among the top 20 in the nation along with Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, MIT, Northwestern and the University of Pennsylvania.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's environmental law program is ranked fourth in the nation in a ranking of selected graduate programs released today by U.S. News and World Report magazine. CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's environmental law program moved up from a ranking of fifth in the nation in 2000. Overall, CU's School of Law was tied for a ranking of 38th out of 174 accredited law schools, up from 45th place last year.

A search committee has been named to seek a director of diversity for the College of Business at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. The new position will address the College of Business's commitment to diversity issues. James Marlatt, senior instructor of information systems, is serving as interim director.

Dr. Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, will lecture on "The Past, the Future and the Biology of Memory Storage" at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø on Wednesday, April 11. The 8 p.m. talk in Macky Auditorium is free and open to the public. The 36th George Gamow Memorial Lecture is intended for a general audience of non-scientists.

A ranking of business programs in the Academy of Management Journal rated CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's College of Business faculty 38th in the nation. The study evaluated faculty research productivity in the premier academic journals.