CU Moving Company To Perform And Teach At Area Schools

April 1, 1998

The CU Moving Company, a group of undergraduate and graduate dance majors at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø who tour Colorado educating and entertaining school-age kids, will visit three Â鶹¹ÙÍø-Denver area schools in April. The 13-member CU Moving Company will present its combination class-performances at Niwot High School on April 7, Gold Hill Elementary School on April 14 and at the Denver School of the Arts on April 21.

New Class Of Dust Ring Discovered Around Jupiter

April 1, 1998

A team led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø has found new evidence that a faint, doughnut-shaped ring of interplanetary and interstellar dust some 700,000 miles in diameter is orbiting Jupiter.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø To Break Ground For New Humanities Building

March 31, 1998

Construction of a new humanities building at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will be launched with groundbreaking ceremonies Thursday, April 2, on the campusÂ’ historic Norlin Quadrangle. The building, which will house classrooms and several humanities departments, is the first fully state-funded humanities facility at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø since the Hellems Building was completed in 1921, according to Chancellor Richard L. Byyny. Most campus buildings have been built with a combination of funding sources, such as revenue bonds, private donations and other sources.

Graduate Business Students Raise Money For Diversity Scholarships

March 31, 1998

The Graduate School of Business Association at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø is hosting its 6th annual Barney Ford Benefit to raise money for scholarships that will build a more diverse student population. This yearÂ’s event will be a beer tasting and silent auction at Trios Grille and Wine Bar in Â鶹¹ÙÍø at Canyon Boulevard and Broadway from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 9. Tickets, which are available at the door, are $25 per person. All proceeds go to the Barney Ford Scholarship Fund.

CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Oyate Hosts Pow-wow April 4-5

March 30, 1998

Over 2,000 American Indians and First Nation Peoples from more than 30 tribes in the United States and Canada will rendezvous at the University of Colorado Events Center in Â鶹¹ÙÍø on April 4-5 for the second annual Red Nations Cultural Unity Celebration Contest Pow-wow. A pow-wow is a cultural celebration featuring native speakers, performers, writers and artists. This yearÂ’s event is sponsored by the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø American Indian Student Organization Oyate (pronounced O-ya-tay). There are 164 American Indian students enrolled on the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus.

Media Advisory - CU's Official "University Fool" To Tour Campus April 1

March 30, 1998

Patricia Nelson Limerick, the renowned University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø history professor who also serves as the official self-appointed "University Fool," will put on white face paint and make her almost annual tour of campus on April 1. Limerick's goal this year is to seek out the most "valuable" people on campus. If she is successful at locating those people early in the day, she will then look for the "happiest" people in the university.

Oldest Astronomical Megalith Alignment Discovered In Southern Egypt By Science Team

March 30, 1998

An assembly of huge stone slabs found in EgyptÂ’s Sahara Desert that date from about 6,500 years to 6,000 years ago has been confirmed by scientists to be the oldest known astronomical alignment of megaliths in the world.

Calendar Notice

March 30, 1998

William Hooke, director of the U.S. Weather Research Program for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and chair of the White House Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction, will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, on "Natural Extremes: Their Impacts on Society and Implications for Global Change Policy." Hooke will speak in room G-125 of the Duane Physics building on the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus.

New Sewall Teaching Fellowship Offers A Unique Teaching Opportunity

March 29, 1998

The Sewall Residential Academic Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø has inaugurated the Sewall Teaching Fellowship, honoring one faculty member annually who is known to be among the universityÂ’s best teachers. Michael Grant, a professor in the environmental, population and organismic biology department, is the first recipient of the fellowship. Grant will teach a new course title "Recent Discoveries in Biology and Their Ethical Implications" at Sewall during the next academic year.

Author Lars Eighner To Speak At CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø

March 26, 1998

Lars Eighner, author of the widely acclaimed memoir on homelessness, “Travels With Lizbeth,” will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø on Thursday, April 2. EighnerÂ’s address, "A Global Concept of Right and Duty," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Sewall Symposium Series. Eighner plans to focus on how population pressure affects human rights and responsibilities.

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