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The CU-Boulder Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business has appointed business leaders Tom Daniel and Robert Kaufman to its advisory board. Daniel is the CEO and founder of CadWest Partners LLC, a registered broker dealer. He also is president and developer of CTEK Angels, the largest group of angel investors in the Rocky Mountain region. Kaufman is a partner with Q Advisors and previously was president and CEO of netLibrary, a content and technology provider to institutional libraries and corporations.

Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, will present "News Media in the 21st Century: Are Journalists Becoming Irrelevant?" at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder on Monday, April 26. The Crosman Memorial Lecture will be held at 5 p.m. in the Norlin Library British Studies Room, with a reception to follow. The event is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.

About 120 outstanding ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder students will be welcomed into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's largest and oldest academic honor society, at a special April 25 public ceremony to celebrate the CU-Boulder chapter's 100th birthday. CU-Boulder Honors Program Director Dennis Van Gerven will offer comments at the 5 p.m. event in the Glenn Miller Ballroom inside the University Memorial Center. After the ceremony, a reception is scheduled at about 6 p.m. The event is free of charge.

Uriel Nauenberg, a professor of physics at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, has been selected to receive the university's highest recognition for teaching and research, the Hazel Barnes Prize, for his work in high-energy physics. The prize includes an engraved University Medal and a cash award of $20,000, the largest single faculty award funded by the university. He will be recognized during spring commencement exercises on May 7.

Rocket launches and sunspot viewing are among the highlights of Astronomy Day, a family-oriented celebration being held on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder campus on Saturday, April 24. Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory will offer activities from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the planetarium and observatory. All activities are free and open to the public.

Three ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder professors have been awarded Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for 2004 and another has received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. The Guggenheim recipients are among 185 fellows selected from more than 3,200 applicants. The scholars, scientists and artists will receive awards totaling $6.9 million from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in its 80th annual competition.

A dozen distinguished guest faculty members from all over the world will teach a series of unique summer courses starting in May at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. Astronaut James Voss, CNN senior editor James Schiffman and Brown University professor-at-large and MacArthur fellow Shirley Brice Heath are among the guest instructors, in addition to professors from the universities of Vienna, Austria, and Montesquieu-Bordeaux, France. They are scheduled to teach classes as part of the CU-Boulder First Faculty in Residence Summer Term beginning May 10.

Engineering faculty, staff and students at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder have been scribbling sonnets and dabbling in Italian opera this semester as part of an initiative by the Herbst Humanities Program to engage engineers in the arts.

"Public Memory," a documentary film about how and why people create memorials following tragic events, will be shown at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder on Monday, April 19. The film, to be shown at 7 p.m. in Hellems Arts and Sciences Building room 252, includes an interview with Professor Ken Foote, chair of CU-Boulder's geography department and author of the book "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy." The event is free and open to the public.

University of Chicago Law School Professor Cass Sunstein will deliver the CU-Boulder School of Law's 47th annual John R. Coen Lecture, Monday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom located in the Fleming Law Building. The lecture, titled "Are Judges Political: Bush, Confirmations and Beyond," is free and open to the public and to university students, staff and alumni. Sunstein also is a faculty member of the University of Chicago political science department and is the author of numerous legal articles and books.