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Ronald J. Gilson, professor of law and business at Stanford and Columbia universities, will deliver the 44th annual John R. Coen Lecture on March 19 at 4 p.m. in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom at the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ School of Law. The lecture, titled "Comparative Venture Capital," is free and open to the public. Gilson is the Charles J. Myers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford University and the Stern Professor of Law and Business at Columbia University.

Nobody likes moving, but imagine packing and moving a house full of 3 million fragile, old and priceless items, all of which have to arrive in perfect condition. That is the task the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is currently undertaking. This summer the CU Museum will relocate most of its specimen collections, laboratories, offices and its graduate program to the newly renovated Museum Collections Building on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

How will the Napster decision impact the future of the Internet, its business strategies and development? These and other questions will be explored at the March 15 CU-Â鶹ӰԺ forum on "Public Values and the Architecture of the Information Age: The Future of Intellectual Property, Privacy and Open Source."

The life of legendary explorer and early conservationist John Wesley Powell will be addressed by prominent historian and award-winning author Donald Worster in a lecture at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Monday, March 19. Worster, a distinguished professor at the University of Kansas, will discuss his new book, "A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell," the first major biography of the famous explorer in almost 50 years.

Astronaut Jim Voss is slated to head for the International Space Station March 8 aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery, the beginning of a four and one-half month stint in orbit for the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ alum and his two colleagues.

An entrepreneur whose company specializes in a safe and environmentally friendly supply of renewable hydrogen energy will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ College of Business on Monday, March 5. G. Chris Andersen, chairman of Millennium Cell Inc. of Eatontown, N.J., will talk on "Digits, Energy, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen and the New Economy" from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in room 224 of the College of Business. The presentation is open to the public.

"Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes," a book co-authored by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Associate Law Professor Scott Peppet, has been honored with the 2000 Award for Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution by the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. The book, which Peppet wrote with Robert Mnookin and Andrew S. Tulumello, legal scholars from the Harvard Negotiation Research Project, promotes an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving in negotiation known as alternative dispute resolution or ADR.

An environmentally friendly rock climbing anchor that was designed by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ engineering students will be on display at the Smithsonian Institution March 7, as part of an exhibit of top inventions by students from around the nation.

A professor in the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ College of Business has been awarded two grants to fund her ongoing research on culture in the marketplace. Lisa N. Peñaloza, an associate professor of marketing, has won a total of $25,000 from the Marketing Science Institute.

Hiroshi Motomura, the Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, will give the 26th annual Austin W. Scott Jr. lecture March 12 at 4 p.m. in the Fleming Law Building. Titled, "Terms of Belonging: Immigration and the Meaning of U.S. Citizenship," the lecture is free and open to the public. Professor Motomura will discuss his book in progress on immigration and citizenship. According to Motomura, "The idea of America as a 'nation of immigrants' reflects different -- and sometimes conflicting -- views of what it means to come to this country."