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A scholarship in American Studies has been established in memory of Susannah Chase, the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ senior who was brutally beaten near her home in downtown Â鶹ӰԺ and died on Dec. 22, a day after the assault. Professor Erika Doss, director of the American Studies program, said the scholarship has been established with seed money from the College of Arts and Sciences and a few small private donations, but contributions are welcomed.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

Factors that influence adolescents to begin smoking -- and factors that keep them from starting -- will be studied by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

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-Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ 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-Â鶹ӰԺ 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 Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

Emergency warning sirens and public address systems will be tested in the City of Â鶹ӰԺ and on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus Monday, April 6, at 10 a.m., in a joint effort by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and the Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

Tuesday, April 7, will be a lucky day for the students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. 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.

The CU Moving Company, a group of undergraduate and graduate dance majors at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ who tour Colorado educating and entertaining school-age kids, will visit three Â鶹ӰԺ-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.