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Microsoft Corp. has donated $150,000 worth of technology support to the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business to help enhance curriculum and technology systems. A software donation of $125,000 includes Visio 2002, a program for creating business diagrams; Office XP Developer Edition, which includes tools for programming and application development; and Publisher 2002, a desktop publishing suite. Other donated products include server software and maintenance tools.

Applications for new apartments at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder Williams Village housing community are now being accepted at the American Campus Communities office in room 227 at the University Memorial Center. The new facility, known as "Bear Creek Apartments at Williams Village," is specifically designed for upper-division students and is scheduled to be open for occupancy by fall semester 2003. It features a mix of private and shared bedroom accommodations with private and semiprivate bathrooms, academic support services and laundry and recreational facilities.

An internationally known religion expert from Australia will present "Varieties of Religious Aesthetic," a series of four lectures starting Feb. 24, as part of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder department of religious studies' annual Robert C. Lester Lectureship on the Study of Religion.

Infants who are deaf or hard of hearing go through critical sensitive periods for the development of vocabulary, grammar and the sounds of spoken English, according to a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder professor. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, chair of the speech, language and hearing sciences department, presented "What the deaf child can't afford to miss: Language, Deafness and the Remarkable Infant" Feb. 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Two ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder researchers have developed intriguing theories on the mysterious demise of the Chaco Canyon Pueblo people and the larger Chaco region that governed an area in the Southwest about the size of Ohio before it collapsed about 1125.

What often is described as abandonment of Southwestern village sites by ancient inhabitants is frequently inaccurate when the archaeological evidence is scrutinized, according to a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder anthropologist.

Clusters of sunspots form their own weather patterns on the sun, according to new observations by a team of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder researchers. Professor Juri Toomre of JILA said large complexes of magnetic sunspots cause downdrafts in their vicinity that are fed by winds flowing into the sun from the surface and dissipated by strong winds flowing out from deep below the sunspots.

"Environmental Responses to Anthropogenic Perturbations" is the topic of a day-long symposium to be offered by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder Friday, Feb. 21. Registration is required by Tuesday, Feb. 18, but the symposium is free and open to the public. All sessions will be presented by a CIRES fellow in the Old Main chapel. Sessions begin at 9 a.m. and extend until 5 p.m., each lasting 35 minutes. The day opens with a continental breakfast in Old Main at 8:30 a.m.

The CU Parents Association has awarded $40,000 in grants to programs designed to enhance the experience of undergraduates on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder campus. Preference was given to projects that met the association's goals of enriching student life, building community, promoting diversity, improving student safety, enhancing career counseling and improving communication with parents and students.

Editors: A complete Diversity Summit agenda can be found at http://www.Colorado.EDU/cu-diversity/ . The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder's Eighth Annual Campus Diversity Summit, "Bias, Blame and Bigotry: Stressors on Diverse Communities," will be held Feb. 19-21.