Woodrow Wilson Foundation President To Speak At CU-Boulder On Feb. 17

Feb. 10, 2000

The president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Robert Weisbuch, will deliver a lecture, "Unleashing the Humanities: The Liberal Arts Take Over America," on Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.

CU-Boulder Hosts Women's Roundtable On Health Issues Affecting Diverse Groups

Feb. 8, 2000

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host the Second Annual Women聮s Health Roundtable, "Building Community by Helping Ourselves and Each Other," on Monday, Feb. 28, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center. The event is free and open to the public. The Roundtable will provide men and women with important information and encourage discussion on critical health issues that may affect them and their mothers, sisters, partners and friends.

Two CU-Boulder Physics Professors Receive $560,000 In NSF Career Awards

Feb. 7, 2000

Two assistant professors of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dan Dessau and Anton Andreev, have each won prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation. Dessau will receive $360,000 over the next four years and Andreev will receive $200,000. The awards are given to exceptionally promising junior faculty at U.S. colleges and universities who are committed to the integration of research and education. In 1999, the NSF granted about 350 of the highly competitive awards.

CU-Boulder Campus Diversity Summit Focuses On Diversity Scholarship

Feb. 7, 2000

Editors: A complete summit agenda is attached. The University of Colorado at Boulder聮s Fifth Annual Campus Diversity Summit, "Integrating Diversity, Scholarship and Action," will be held Feb. 22-23 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the University Memorial Center. The summit will use campus expertise to apply diversity scholarship in all areas of the university and will include roundtable discussions with authors of diversity and equity publications, panel discussions and presentations.

Astronaut, Congressman And Students To Give Space Exploration Program At CU

Feb. 7, 2000

An astronaut, a congressman and several students will participate in a Feb. 12 program on campus that will include talks on a recent space shuttle mission, the future of space exploration and an upcoming CU-Boulder student satellite mission. The program will feature veteran astronaut Mark Lee who has flown on four NASA shuttle missions, Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Space Subcommittee, and several CU undergraduates involved in the design and construction of the Citizen Explorer Satellite.

CU-Boulder Ranks No. 2 In Nation For Most Peace Corps Volunteers

Feb. 6, 2000

For the eighth year in a row, the University of Colorado at Boulder ranked second in the nation for the number of graduates serving overseas as Peace Corps volunteers. The Peace Corps' annual list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities named the University of Wisconsin at Madison first with 117 graduates currently serving, followed by CU-Boulder with 91 volunteers. The University of Michigan, the site of President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech proposing the Peace Corps, came in third with 78 volunteers.

USC Professor Jennifer Wolch To Lecture On Varying Cultural Views Of Animals

Feb. 6, 2000

Professor Jennifer Wolch of the University of Southern California will be in Boulder to speak on "Race, Place, and Attitudes Toward Animals," on Feb. 11 at 4 p.m. in Guggenheim Geography, Room 205. Wolch, invited by CU-Boulder聮s geography department, is a professor of geography at USC and has been teaching and writing about how people and animals interact since the 1980s.

CU-Boulder "Bug Man" Uses Many Tools To Control Pests

Feb. 6, 2000

Sightings of a man with a vacuum strapped to his back riding a bicycle around the University of Colorado at Boulder campus will not turn up a "ghostbuster," but rather a "roachbuster." Scott Harvey, who works in CU-Boulder聮s Facilities Management department, is the campus pest management technician. But he also is known as the campus "bugbuster," "roachman" and "antman." Harvey, who has been hunting roaches and other pests for more than 10 years, uses a technique called Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, to combat the university聮s unwelcome guests.

CU-Boulder Recognizes Local Companies

Feb. 6, 2000

The CU-Boulder Corporate Excellence Awards, sponsored by the MBA program, will honor local businesses for their contributions to the community on Feb. 10. Companies to be recognized include Gold Systems Inc., Global Solar Energy, the Boulder Public Works Department聮s Utilities Division, U S West and Rhythms NetConnections Inc.

CU-Boulder Venture Capital Team Advances To Finals

Feb. 6, 2000

CU-Boulder MBA students won the $2,000 second-place prize at the western regional Venture Capital Investment Competition hosted at CU-Boulder on Feb. 5. The team will advance with first-place finisher UCLA to the finals held at the University of North Carolina on March 23.

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