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Calendar Item Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will explore the red planet during "Mars Quest," Friday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium. The pre-recorded show examines the history of humankindÂ’s exploration of Mars, glancing in at the planet from space and exploring its surface. The show also delves into the question of life on Mars.

The James E. de Castro Chair in New Media has been endowed at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a gift of $1.5 million from James E. de Castro. It is the school's first endowed chair and one of the first of its kind in the nation. A CU-Â鶹ӰԺ alumnus, de Castro is president and chief executive officer of Ultimate Inc., a startup company that provides access to sports and entertainment events through online and mainstream partnerships.

Editors: A list of participating high schools, the names of the students and their school newspaper advisers is attached. High school journalism students from around the state will convene on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus Jan. 29 to address the issues of alcohol use and abuse among high school students. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's "A Matter of Degree" program and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host the one-day event starting at 8:30 a.m. in the Old Main Chapel. Students from 17 high schools are planning to attend with their school newspaper advisers.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is helping scientists see the structure and hour-to-hour changes of a giant doughnut-shaped gaseous ring around Jupiter in unprecedented detail. The doughnut, called the Io torus, draws its raw material from gases spewed into space by volcanoes on Io, one of Juputer's large moons. The torus was detected in the 1970s, but almost all of its light is invisible to the human eye. It is big enough that if Earth were in the middle, the orbit of Earth's Moon would fit inside the hole of the doughnut.

Note to Editors: Students will demonstrate the water pump and be available to the media on Friday, Jan. 26 at 11:30 a.m. in the Hydraulics Laboratory at the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ College of Engineering and Applied Science. Photos of the town of San Pablo in Belize also will be available at the event. For directions to the lab, please call (303) 492-7426. Â鶹ӰԺ 250 Mayan Indians living in the village of San Pablo in southwestern Belize are looking to civil engineering students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ to help them meet one of life's most basic needs.

Note to Editors: Media are invited to a reception at the Denver law offices of Hogan & Hartson, located at 1200 17th St., Suite 1500, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 25. Representatives from each of the 16 firms and CU and DU law schools will be in attendance. The Colorado Pledge to Racial and Ethnic Diversity, in conjunction with the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ School of Law and the University of Denver School of Law, announced today the creation of an ambitious minority summer clerkship program.

Gerd Leonhard, founder of LicenseMusic.com, will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Feb. 1 about e-commerce and the music industry. His talk will be held in the College of Business, room 224, at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The wonders of the cold, winter sky, including tips on how to view the International Space Station in its orbit of Earth, will be presented during the live astronomy show "Â鶹ӰԺ Skies," Friday, Feb. 2, and Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Both shows will be held at the Fiske Planetarium on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Richard L. Byyny announced today a new administrative structure for the campus. The changes implement recommendations made by the 2000 North Central Association, or NCA, accreditation report and will enable the university to better address the fast-changing demands within its complex environment. The reorganization plan, which does not involve any new hires, will require approval by the CU Board of Regents for new and changing titles among the officers of the campus.

One of the best-kept secrets at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is the success of its student-run speech and debate team. The 10-member team currently ranks No. 8 in the nation in the highly competitive category of parliamentary debate. The team has won two of the five tournaments it entered this school year. Yet of the 297 colleges in the National Parliamentary Debate Association, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ is one of only five teams to be entirely student-run and student-coached.