CU-Boulder's Spring 2003 Final Exam Schedule Is Corrected By Registrar

Oct. 30, 2002

Before making any travel plans for the end of the spring 2003 semester, the Office of the Registrar at the University of Colorado at Boulder is encouraging students to take one more look at the final exam schedule because the first schedule released in early October was incorrect.

Flu, Meningitis Shots Urged For CU-Boulder Students At Nov. 7 Clinic On Campus

Oct. 30, 2002

Robert Cranny, director of the Wardenburg Health Service at the University of Colorado at Boulder, wants all CU-Boulder students who live in residence halls to get vaccinated for meningitis at a special daylong campus clinic on Nov. 7. Cranny's recommendation is in line with many health officials who support the shots for college-age adults, especially those who live in residence halls.

CU-Boulder Journalism Senior Alex Stone Wins National Radio Investigative Reporting Awards

Oct. 29, 2002

Alex Stone, a senior majoring in broadcast news at CU-Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has received a national award for investigative reporting from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. He also received an award from ABC for Radio National Individual Reporter of the Year, placing as first runner-up.

Skiers, Snowboarders To Get Smoother Ride Thanks To CU-Boulder Student Inventors

Oct. 29, 2002

Skiers and snowboarders may soon have a smoother ride through halfpipes and snow terrain parks thanks to two grant-winning University of Colorado at Boulder student inventors. David Kubicka and Kegan Paisley's "Halfpipe Helper" is a specially designed rakelike tool intended to make it easier for workers to create and maintain halfpipes, jumps and other ski area terrain features. The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance awarded the students $6,600 for development of the tool.

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson And Brother To Lecture In Boulder, Denver Nov. 11-12

Oct. 29, 2002

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson and his brother Peter, a University of Wyoming professor, will give talks in Boulder and Denver Nov. 11-12 as distinguished lecturers of the CU-Boulder Center of the American West. "High Plains Politics: A Dialogue with the Simpson Brothers of Wyoming," will be presented from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 in the Boulder Public Library Auditorium, 11th Street and Arapahoe Avenue, and from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Nov. 12 at the Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, in the lower level B2 conference room.

Increasing Nitrogen In Earth's Soils May Signal Global Changes, Say Researchers

Oct. 29, 2002

The rapid increase of nitrogen falling from the sky as a result of fossil-fuel combustion and crop fertilization, combined with carbon stored in Earth's soils, could change the rate of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, rising into the atmosphere, according to a new study.

International Photographer And Sculptor To Give Free Lectures At CU-Boulder

Oct. 28, 2002

A photographer from Guatemala and a German ceramic sculptor will each present free public talks in November as part of the University of Colorado at Boulder fine arts department's Visiting Artists Lecture Series. Luis Gonzalez Palma and Kerstin Abraham will speak on Nov. 5 and Nov. 12, respectively. Both lectures will begin at 7 p.m. in the Sibell-Wolle Fine Arts Building on the CU-Boulder campus, room N141.

Fiske Planetarium To Celebrate American Indian Views of The Sky

Oct. 28, 2002

Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder will present a series of programs focused on American Indian tribes and the sky beginning Thursday, Nov. 7, through Tuesday, Nov. 12. The programs, which will be in the planetarium, celebrate the relationship three American Indian communities have with the sky. The planetarium will host six shows, including four live presentations.

CU-Boulder Composer Wins International Creative Computer Music Award

Oct. 28, 2002

Music composed for tabla and computer has earned University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor Michael Theodore the first annual Eric Siday Musical Creativity Award from the International Computer Music Association. "Goatsong, for Tabla Drums and Computer" was selected from more than 400 submissions to the 2002 ICMA Festival and Conference in G枚teborg, Sweden. Theodore, who teaches classes in music composition and technology at the CU-Boulder College of Music, received a $2,300 prize. His piece was performed for a large audience at the festival.

CU-Boulder Professor Will Make The Invisible Visible During Nov. 9 Show

Oct. 28, 2002

The University of Colorado at Boulder physics department will continue its new monthly Saturday Physics Series with a presentation on Saturday, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20. Associate Professor Steven Pollock of the physics department will present "Making the Invisible Visible," in which he will demonstrate and explain some of the tools used by nuclear and particle physicists to see things that are normally invisible to the human eye.

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