Link Between Climate Change, Amphibian Declines Explored

Feb. 17, 2000

A NASA-funded study to search for links between local climatic variation and the beginning of specific amphibian declines that have occurred in three areas of the world in the past several decades has turned up no significant correlation between the two.

Alumni Couple Bolster CU-Boulder's Entrepreneurship Program With A Half Million Dollar Professorship

Feb. 17, 2000

Citing their belief that "the future of business in the 聭new economy聮 is in entrepreneurship and e-commerce," Bob and Beverly Deming have backed up that sentiment with a $500,000 gift to endow an entrepreneurship professorship at CU-Boulder聮s College of Business and Administration. The gift is in addition to the Deming聮s gift two years ago of $3 million to the burgeoning Entrepreneurship Center, which now bears the Deming name.

CU Real Estate Conference Addresses Smart Growth And Capital Markets

Feb. 16, 2000

Colorado聮s smart growth initiatives and their impact on the real estate industry will be discussed at the 2000 CU Real Estate Council Annual Conference, "Dollars and Sense: Where Capital Markets Meet Smart Growth" on Friday, Feb. 25. The all-day event, hosted by the University of Colorado Real Estate Center and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

CU-Boulder Doctoral Student Receives National Historians Award

Feb. 15, 2000

Constance Clark, a University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral history student, received this year's national Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians. Clark was honored with the award for her essay, "Evolution for John Doe: Pictures, the Public, and the Scopes Trial Debate," which will be published in the Journal of American History.

CU-Boulder Blood Drive Set For Feb. 22 To Feb. 24

Feb. 15, 2000

The University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be the site of the 2000 Spring Boulder Campus Blood Drive. Open to the public, the blood drive will be held in the UMC west ballroom from Feb. 22 through Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. CU-Boulder staff, faculty and students interested in donating blood can sign up for appointments at the UMC loggia from Feb. 14 through Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by calling the Boulder Staff Council at (303) 492-5473 by noon on Feb. 21.

CU-Boulder GLBT Resource Center Celebrates Five Years Of Service

Feb. 14, 2000

A rousing round of "Happy Birthday" will echo from Willard Hall room 334 on Friday, March 10, to mark the University of Colorado at Boulder Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center聮s five-year anniversary. The center was born in 1995, three years after the passage of Amendment 2, a statewide anti-gay initiative. It was founded after a special task force felt a need to improve campus conditions for the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities.

CU-Boulder Spring Parents Weekend Offers Free Events Feb. 25-27

Feb. 13, 2000

Several free events will be offered during the University of Colorado at Boulder Spring Parents Weekend, Feb. 25-27, including presentations on jazz music, the challenges of the 21st century and off-campus housing. Parents and the general public are invited to attend. Last year's most popular session, "Finding Housing Off Campus," will be presented by Dale Severance, director of Off-Campus Student Services. Severance will discuss housing costs, landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities, and provide information on available housing services.

Feb. 26 CU Wizards Show Looks At Physics Of "Speed"

Feb. 13, 2000

The next CU Wizards program will help students catch up on the physics of "Speed," on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 9:30 a.m. in the Duane Physics building, room G1B30, on the CU-Boulder campus. Eric Cornell, CU-Boulder physics professor and Fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, will measure "lots of different kinds of speeds" at the free, hour-long presentation, intended primarily for students in grades 5 through 9.

CU Professor Susan Avery To Give Lecture About Upper Atmosphere

Feb. 10, 2000

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Susan Avery will give the third in a series of four lectures for the spring Chancellor聮s Community Lecture Series. Titled "Women in the Field," the series features four distinguished women faculty from CU-Boulder, each speaking on their areas of expertise. Professor Avery聮s lecture, "Catch a Falling Star and Put it to Work," is on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel of The Academy at 970 Aurora Ave. in Boulder.

Noted Cave Archaeologist To Speak At CU-Boulder Feb. 25

Feb. 10, 2000

Professor Patty Jo Watson, an internationally known archaeologist from Washington University in St. Louis, will give a free public lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Feb. 25. Watson will present the 2000 Distinguished Archaeology lecture titled "Cave Archaeology in North America." Sponsored by the CU-Boulder anthropology department and funded by a department alumnus, the talk will be held at 8 p.m. in room 270 of the Hale Science Building.

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