'Healing The Southern Rockies Ecoregion' Is Topic Of April 7 CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Lecture

March 23, 2004

Research Associate Hannah Gosnell of the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø. 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-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Fourth Annual Silicon Flatirons Conference on Startup Businesses.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø. 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-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Satellite Developers Celebrate One Year Of Operations

March 16, 2004

An $88 million NASA satellite designed and built by the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scientist Named Aldo Leopold Fellow

March 16, 2004

A University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø. "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-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø. The former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, is the keynote speaker of the symposium that includes advocates and scholars from CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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.

Job 'Offshoring' Topic Of CU Symposium March 25

March 14, 2004

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the symposium free of charge. Job "offshoring" and its potential positive and negative effects on the Colorado and national economy will be the topic of a March 25 symposium in Denver co-sponsored by the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Leeds School of Business and the Mountain States Council of AeA, the nation's largest high-tech trade association.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Leeds School Of Business Dean, Steven Manaster, To Step Down At End Of Current Contract In June

March 11, 2004

Steven Manaster, dean of the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Leeds School of Business since 1999, today announced his decision not to seek reappointment when his current contract as dean expires on June 30. Manaster informed University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø Provost Phil DiStefano of his decision last week and began meeting with faculty members throughout the day yesterday. Manaster said his announcement comes at a time when the school needs to develop broader support to advance and secure its future.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Students To Assist Rwandan Village As Part Of 'Engineers Without Borders' Team

March 10, 2004

Editor's Note: Digital photographs of earlier Engineers Without Borders projects can be obtained by contacting Carol Rowe at (303) 492-7426 or carol.rowe@colorado.edu . University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø engineering students will be part of a team traveling to Rwanda, March 19 to March 31, to work with a village decimated by genocide just short of a decade ago and now suffering from poverty, insufficient food and unsafe drinking water.

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