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The Artist Series will host two educational events with the Trinity Irish Dance Company on Wednesday, Feb. 6, before the company's performance in Macky Auditorium that evening. A lecture-demonstration will be held at Creekside Elementary School, 3740 Martin Dr. in Â鶹ӰԺ, and a master class for CU students will be at the Charlotte York Irey Studios in the University Theatre Building on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. Both events will begin at 10 a.m. and will feature dancers and musicians from the company.

Valentine's Day is a romantic time for many couples; a time when people express their love and emotions. But, according to a Christian Science Monitor estimate, there also are 80 million Americans who will be single on Valentine's Day. While many singles are indeed happy, some are not. Last year the Monitor reported 14 percent of women in America sent themselves flowers on Feb. 14, an indication they may suffer from what CU-Â鶹ӰԺ counselor Sharon Campbell calls the unspoken Valentine's Day slogan; "We must be coupled in order to be happy."

Editors note: Lorrie Shepard will be available on Monday afternoon for comment on the results of the 10th grade mathematics CSAP study. A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study of the content and difficulty of the 10th-grade mathematics CSAP test commissioned by the Denver Area School Superintendents Council found that 31 percent of the questions asked are not taught until after 10th-grade geometry, which may unfairly handicap a large segment of 10th-grade test takers.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Leeds School of Business Associate Professor Tom Dean has been elected chair of the entrepreneurship division at the Academy of Management. The Academy of Management is the world's premier organization of management academics and is dedicated to spreading knowledge about management and organizations. Membership in the academy is comprised of scholars from colleges, universities and research institutions as well as practitioners from business, government and not-for-profit organizations. It has 12,000 members in 77 countries.

The myths, astronomical phenomena and constellations of the sky in the Southern Hemisphere will be explored in the live astronomy show "Southern Skies" at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Feb. 8, and Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m.

Dennis Stanford, chair of the anthropology department at the Smithsonian Institution, will speak on his controversial suggestion that the "Solutrean Culture" from Europe may well have been among the original colonizers of the Americas. Sponsored by the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ anthropology department and funded by a department alumnus, the Ninth Annual Distinguished Archaeology Lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, in room 270 of the Hale Science building. The free public event will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, announced his resignation to journalism faculty members this week. In a letter to faculty dated Jan. 23, Brinkman cited health and family considerations as the reasons for his resignation.

Science Explorers, an outreach program affiliated with CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Science Discovery Program, is offering a workshop Feb. 1 at the Colorado State Fairgrounds called "Water: From Ice Caps to Water Taps." The workshop is one of several being offered by the Science Discovery Program to help promote learning among teachers as well as students. Sponsored by the South Central Board of Cooperative Educational Services and the CU President's Office, the workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is open to students and teachers from Pueblo Area schools.

Applications for freshman admission to the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ for fall 2002 are running 15 percent above the same point last year, following two years of record increases. Almost 13,000 applications have been received to date, and the final total is expected to reach about 20,000. Less than one month remains before the Feb. 15 deadline. In considering applications for admission, full and equal consideration is given to completed applications with all required credentials that are postmarked by Feb. 15.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ space physicist Daniel Baker will give a talk on Monday, Jan. 28, about the mysteries of the tiny planet Mercury and his involvement in NASA's upcoming mission there. Baker, who is director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, or LASP, will speak from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the JILA auditorium, located on the lower level of the JILA tower in the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Duane Physics building. The talk is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Euclid Avenue Autopark and along Colorado Avenue, near Folsom Street.