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CU PROFESSOR JANET DeGRAZIA Chemical engineering Professor Janet deGrazia spends summers at CU-Boulder wowing schoolkids and teachers by launching pencil rockets, dissecting rock-climbing cams and showing why bridges collapse to demonstrate Newton's Laws of Motion and other scientific principles.

The Board of Regents of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Thursday approved the Williams Village Master Site Development Plan, providing guidelines for developers to construct apartment-style student housing for 1,900 upper division and graduate students. Initial occupancy is expected on Aug. 1, 2003.

The 42nd Annual William Lee Knous Award, which is conferred by the Law Alumni Board of Directors to alumni in recognition of outstanding achievement and sustained service to the law school, will be presented to CU Law Alumnus William J. Hybl on Saturday, Oct. 13. The ceremony will be the highlight of the Back-to-Boulder festivities at the Fleming Law Building.

A town hall meeting on "America at War: Race, Religion and the Media" will be hosted by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 5:15 p.m. in Hale Science Building room 270. A panel of local and national experts will evaluate the impact of news coverage in America on race, ethnicity and religion before and after the Sept. 11 national tragedy.

Editors: Photographers are welcome at the events. Most visual are "Science from CU" at 12:30 p.m., Nubian mummies at 12:30 p.m. and the Bugmobile at 1:40 p.m. The high school students will attend sessions from 8 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Afternoon sessions have from 20 to 60 students in each. About 120 high school students from throughout Colorado will visit the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder on Thursday, Oct. 11, for a day of science presentations ranging from "Cool and Creative Chemistry" to Nubian mummies.

Note to Editors: A public dedication ceremony is set for 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 17 and the open house and clinical research demonstrations are from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the south wing of the third floor of the Wardenburg Health Center on campus. The National Institutes of Health has awarded the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder a multi-year, multi-million dollar grant to establish and maintain a General Clinical Research Center for teaching and conducting clinical research studies on humans.

Distinguished Professor Carl E. Wieman of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ department of physics at Boulder and Senior Scientist Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology led a team of physicists that created the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate -- a new form of matter -- on June 5, 1995.

Distinguished Professor Carl E. Wieman of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder and Senior Scientist Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology today received the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics. The prize also was awarded to Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wieman said he heard about the award from his brother at about 4 a.m. "I have an unlisted number, as does Eric, and so my brother saw it on the Internet and called me up and that's how I found out.

The ninth annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference titled "Conservative Judicial Activism" will be held Oct. 19-20 at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder School of Law.

The Feminist Student Network at CU-Boulder will host its annual "Take Back the Night" rally and march against sexual assault from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Oct. 10 on the CU-Boulder campus. The rally will begin at 6 p.m. at the University Memorial Center fountain. Speakers at the rally will lend a strong voice to the fight against sexual violence, according to event organizer Rebecca Trinite.