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"Em Bed With the Military: The Media at War" is the subject of a panel discussion at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder on April 24 at 7 p.m. in Engineering Center room 245. Scheduled panelists are Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News reporter and embedded journalist who recently returned from Iraq; Vicky Sama, former CNN producer; Michael Tracey, former head of the Broadcasting Research Unit at the BBC in London and faculty member at CU-Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication; and Juliet Wittman, a reporter for Westword.

The staff of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium will present the latest news about the Cassini spacecraft's mission to Saturn on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium. After a seven-year journey, the spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the planet in July 2004. Staff from the planetarium will show the latest pictures from the Cassini mission and answer questions about Saturn. The Sommers-Bausch Observatory also will be open for visitors to view Saturn, weather permitting.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder Cultural Events Board will present a free public lecture Friday, April 18, by a noted champion of anti-discrimination efforts across the country. Attorney Morris Dees' presentation, "Tolerances: Has America Progressed?" will take place at the Flatirons Theater on the Hill at 7:30 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Recipients of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder Community Builder Brick Awards will be honored at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 23, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center Aspen Rooms 285-289.

Hundreds of students from throughout Colorado will be on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder campus to present a wide array of projects, many a year in the making, during the 22nd annual Colorado History Day. About 500 students in grades six through 12 will compete in the event on Saturday, April 26, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the CU-Boulder campus. The winners will move on to the National History Day competition in June. The theme of this year's competition is "Rights and Responsibilities in History."

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder this week are celebrating Engineering Days, a week-long technology fest featuring the annual College Egg Drop, Vertical Take-off Challenge and Engineering Carnival. Co-sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Engineering Council, corporate sponsors, and professional engineering societies, E-Days is an annual celebration of the engineering profession and a chance for students to apply their engineering skills in fun and creative ways.

Note to Editors: To arrange photos or interviews with Medoff, Shinn or anyone involved in the production, please call Laima Gaigalas at the number above. As the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder College of Music's opera department prepares to premiere "Sara McKinnon" April 24, student performers are enjoying a rare opportunity to work with the opera's Tony Award-winning librettist as well as its composer, a CU-Boulder alumnus.

A new study suggests that agriculture can successfully coexist with continuing population growth and urban sprawl in some areas of the Great Plains. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Colorado State University and the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, found that despite explosive population growth over the last 50 years in Denver, Boulder and other eastern Colorado Plains cities, total harvested area in the region increased by 5 percent and the amount of irrigated land that is harvested jumped by 73 percent.

A group of researchers led by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder have solved the crystal structure of a molecule switch that can trigger heart disease and cancer, paving the way for future drug designs to mitigate these diseases.

As the war winds down in Iraq, many teachers still may find themselves fighting battles in their classrooms, according to a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder education professor. In schools throughout the United States, students and teachers have tried to figure out how the war in Iraq should be addressed in the classroom. Facing conflicting demands from students, parents, administrators and their own sense of professional responsibility, teachers are often caught in the middle, according to CU-Boulder Professor Kevin Welner.