Campus Earth Summit Set For April 20-21

April 6, 1998

Students, faculty, staff and administrators at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will convene for the fifth annual "Campus Earth Summit," April 20-21, to discuss environmental topics from alternative transportation to sustainable development on campus. The summit, which is free and open to the public, provides a forum to review the campusÂ’ environmental performance and to examine the potential for reducing environmental impacts. The goal is to bring together people who may not normally communicate with each other for a cross-fertilization of ideas.

Scholarship Set In Memory Of Susannah Chase At CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø

April 6, 1998

A scholarship in American Studies has been established in memory of Susannah Chase, the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø senior who was brutally beaten near her home in downtown Â鶹¹ÙÍø and died on Dec. 22, a day after the assault. Professor Erika Doss, director of the American Studies program, said the scholarship has been established with seed money from the College of Arts and Sciences and a few small private donations, but contributions are welcomed.

Info Systems Professor, Undergrads Demonstrate Virtual World Teaching Tool

April 6, 1998

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor David Monarchi and a group of undergraduate business students will present a new learning environment – or virtual world – that Monarchi has developed over the past 18 months with a grant from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The presentation will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 10, in room 224 in the College of Business and Administration. Monarchi, an information systems professor, received the CCHE grant to research ways students can learn to use new technology.

CU Gets $136,000 Grant To Study Smoking In Adolescence

April 5, 1998

Factors that influence adolescents to begin smoking -- and factors that keep them from starting -- will be studied by University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø researchers with a $136,915 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The study will be conducted by co-principal investigators Frances Costa and Richard Jessor of the Institute of Behavioral Science, along with research associate Mark Turbin.

Columbia Law School Professor To Give Coen Lecture April 20

April 5, 1998

Peter L. Strauss, the Betts Professor at Columbia UniversityÂ’s School of Law, will deliver the 41st annual John R. Coen Lecture in the Fleming Law Building on the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus. Titled "Common Law Judges and Interpretation," the lecture will begin at 4 p.m. Monday, April 20, in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom. The talk is free and open to the public.

CU Shuttle Experiment To Analyse Dust Particle Collisions In Space

April 5, 1998

A University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø space shuttle payload designed primarily by students to analyze the gentle collisions of dust particles in space may shed new light on the sources of dust in planetary rings.

CU Professor In IMAX Movie 'Everest' To Give Public Lecture In Â鶹¹ÙÍø April 20

April 5, 1998

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø seismologist Roger Bilham, who appears in the popular IMAX movie "Everest," will give a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 20 at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Public Library Auditorium. A multi-media presentation of computer graphics, pictures and film will be shown while Bilham lectures about the building of the Himalayas and the high risk of catastrophic earthquakes in the region. A question-and-answer session will follow.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Research To Be Featured On Science Coalition Web Site In April

April 2, 1998

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will be featured the week of April 13 in the "On-Campus" section of the Science Coalition web site, a comprehensive resource for information on federally funded research.

City, CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø To Test Emergency Warning Systems

April 2, 1998

Emergency warning sirens and public address systems will be tested in the City of Â鶹¹ÙÍø and on the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus Monday, April 6, at 10 a.m., in a joint effort by CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø City-County Office of Emergency Management. Outdoor sirens will sound for two minutes followed by a voice announcement stating, "This is a warning system test." No action or response is necessary during this exercise.

Denver's KCNC Channel 4 Provides Future Broadcasters TV Tools At CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø

April 2, 1998

Tuesday, April 7, will be a lucky day for the students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. ItÂ’s the day KCNC-Channel 4 in Denver will deliver equipment worth a half-million dollars to the school. NEWS 4 is placing six cameras with lenses and recorders and 11 editing decks on permanent loan to the journalism school in Macky Auditorium.

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