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Calendar Item Patricia Limerick, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professor of history and chair of the board of the Center of the American West, will present the second seminar in the university's Earth Systems Engineering Initiative on Tuesday, April 17. "Natural Allies: How Historians and Engineers Could Help Each Other" will be presented from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Engineering Center, room ECCR 245. The seminar is free and open to the public.

When CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Patricia Limerick was asked to teach a comparative history course along with two of her colleagues she said it afforded her a "great opportunity to return to the receiving end of the educational business." The capstone course offered to graduating CU-Â鶹ӰԺ seniors is team-taught by two or three faculty members. Twice in recent years, Limerick, an American West historian, teamed up with Middle East historian James Jankowski and African historian Chidiebere Nwaubani to teach a class examining colonialism and imperialism in each of the three areas.

Patricia Nelson Limerick, professor of history at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and chair of the board of the Center of the American West, has been selected to receive the Hazel Barnes Prize, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's highest recognition for teaching and research. The prize includes an engraved University Medal and a cash award of $20,000, the largest single faculty award funded by the university. She will be recognized during summer commencement exercises on Aug. 11.

George Lipsitz, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego, will examine the cultural and political implications of the globalization of communication technologies in the 40th annual Crosman Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

A seminar titled "The Role of Localities and States in Telecommunications Regulation: Understanding the Jurisdictional Challenges in an Internet Era" will be held April 16 in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom at the University of Colorado School of Law from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The forum will discuss how states and localities can play meaningful roles in telecommunications policy as jurisdictional boundaries are defined by telecommunications networks and traffic. The event is sponsored by the CU School of Law's Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program.

The Council of Graduate Schools in collaboration with the National Science Foundation has named University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Vice Chancellor Carol Lynch the first Dean in Residence for the two organizations. She will be on leave from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ for the one-year assignment, which begins in August. Lynch is vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. She has been an associate vice chancellor and a professor of environmental, population and organismic biology at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ since 1992.

PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE: The time of this event has changed to 6 p.m. Please use this news release instead of the one sent on April 3. All other information is the same. John Wortman, general curator at the Denver Zoo, will visit the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus to give a talk about gorillas in captivity on Monday, April 16, at 6 p.m. in Eaton Humanities room 150.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Assistant Professor Franklin Evans has been honored with the American Meteorological Society's highest award, the 2001 Henry G. Houghton Award. The Henry G. Houghton award is given annually to young promising atmospheric scientists who have shown outstanding ability in their fields. Professor Evans was presented the award for improving the existing knowledge of how light interacts with clouds.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, "Aesthetics for a New Millennium," April 20-22 at the Regal Harvest House Hotel and on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus. All plenary addresses are free and open to the public. The conference will showcase the exceptional depth and range of literary and cultural studies today, according to Christopher Braider, chair of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's department of French and Italian and chair of this year's ACLA conference program committee.

Although mothers are at greater risk during caesarean-section procedures than during regular births, and the U.S. government has identified reduction of hospital c-sections as a priority, no downward trend is occurring. Research by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ business Professor Naomi Soderstrom provides some insight as to why: A hospital's bottom line may determine whether a doctor conducts a c-section.