Info Systems Professor, Undergrads Demonstrate Virtual World Teaching Tool

April 6, 1998

CU-Boulder Professor David Monarchi and a group of undergraduate business students will present a new learning environment – or virtual world – that Monarchi has developed over the past 18 months with a grant from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The presentation will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 10, in room 224 in the College of Business and Administration. Monarchi, an information systems professor, received the CCHE grant to research ways students can learn to use new technology.

CU Gets $136,000 Grant To Study Smoking In Adolescence

April 5, 1998

Factors that influence adolescents to begin smoking -- and factors that keep them from starting -- will be studied by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder researchers with a $136,915 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The study will be conducted by co-principal investigators Frances Costa and Richard Jessor of the Institute of Behavioral Science, along with research associate Mark Turbin.

Columbia Law School Professor To Give Coen Lecture April 20

April 5, 1998

Peter L. Strauss, the Betts Professor at Columbia UniversityÂ’s School of Law, will deliver the 41st annual John R. Coen Lecture in the Fleming Law Building on the CU-Boulder campus. Titled "Common Law Judges and Interpretation," the lecture will begin at 4 p.m. Monday, April 20, in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom. The talk is free and open to the public.

CU Shuttle Experiment To Analyse Dust Particle Collisions In Space

April 5, 1998

A ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder space shuttle payload designed primarily by students to analyze the gentle collisions of dust particles in space may shed new light on the sources of dust in planetary rings.

CU Professor In IMAX Movie 'Everest' To Give Public Lecture In Boulder April 20

April 5, 1998

CU-Boulder seismologist Roger Bilham, who appears in the popular IMAX movie "Everest," will give a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 20 at the Boulder Public Library Auditorium. A multi-media presentation of computer graphics, pictures and film will be shown while Bilham lectures about the building of the Himalayas and the high risk of catastrophic earthquakes in the region. A question-and-answer session will follow.

CU-Boulder Research To Be Featured On Science Coalition Web Site In April

April 2, 1998

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder will be featured the week of April 13 in the "On-Campus" section of the Science Coalition web site, a comprehensive resource for information on federally funded research.

City, CU-Boulder To Test Emergency Warning Systems

April 2, 1998

Emergency warning sirens and public address systems will be tested in the City of Boulder and on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder campus Monday, April 6, at 10 a.m., in a joint effort by CU-Boulder and the Boulder City-County Office of Emergency Management. Outdoor sirens will sound for two minutes followed by a voice announcement stating, "This is a warning system test." No action or response is necessary during this exercise.

Denver's KCNC Channel 4 Provides Future Broadcasters TV Tools At CU-Boulder

April 2, 1998

Tuesday, April 7, will be a lucky day for the students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. ItÂ’s the day KCNC-Channel 4 in Denver will deliver equipment worth a half-million dollars to the school. NEWS 4 is placing six cameras with lenses and recorders and 11 editing decks on permanent loan to the journalism school in Macky Auditorium.

CU Moving Company To Perform And Teach At Area Schools

April 1, 1998

The CU Moving Company, a group of undergraduate and graduate dance majors at CU-Boulder who tour Colorado educating and entertaining school-age kids, will visit three Boulder-Denver area schools in April. The 13-member CU Moving Company will present its combination class-performances at Niwot High School on April 7, Gold Hill Elementary School on April 14 and at the Denver School of the Arts on April 21.

New Class Of Dust Ring Discovered Around Jupiter

April 1, 1998

A team led by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder has found new evidence that a faint, doughnut-shaped ring of interplanetary and interstellar dust some 700,000 miles in diameter is orbiting Jupiter.

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