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University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ physics Professor John Taylor, known to many as the original "Mr. Wizard," will suspend himself from the ceiling using the pressure of moving air molecules during the Jan. 27 CU Wizards show "Hot and Cold." The free hour-long show will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30 on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. CU Wizards is an annual series of science shows intended primarily for students in grades 5 through 9.

The department of theatre and dance and Wardenburg's community health department at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ are collaborating to present a performance of "The Vagina Monologues" as a fund-raiser for the Â鶹ӰԺ County Rape Crisis Team on Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. The event is part of a national effort by playwright Eve Ensler called the "V-Day College Initiative" which involves more than 300 universities worldwide performing the play Feb. 7-21 in order to raise money for non-profit organizations working to stop violence against women.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Norman Pace has been named winner of the 2001 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology by the National Academy of Sciences, considered the nationÂ’s highest award in microbiology. Pace was cited by the National Academy of Sciences "for revolutionizing microbiology by developing methods by which microorganisms can be directly detected, identified, and phylogenetically related without the need for cultivation in the laboratory."

A new employee program officially launched last fall at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ to support the Building Community initiative is seeking applicants for a new session of the program beginning in March. Â鶹ӰԺ Campus Perspective, an intensive awareness-building program, was piloted last spring to encourage networking and increase staff awareness of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s governance and its role in the four-campus system.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ’s Environmental Studies Program is on its way to becoming one of the most popular majors on campus, with enrollment doubling to 600 students in the past five years.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is moving quickly on a "pre-development schedule" for Williams Village student housing development, according to Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration, who oversees the campus master planning process. Tabolt said a financial analysis and implementation plan are being prepared in conjunction with a market analysis to determine if a third-party developer could hasten the project to a fall 2003 completion date.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Professors Patricia Nelson Limerick and Charles Wilkinson will celebrate the life of the late environmental writer T.H. Watkins in a special event on Monday, Jan. 29. Watkins, who died last year, will be honored with the 1999 Wallace Stegner Award from the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Center of the American West, which Limerick and Wilkinson co-founded. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 150 on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Warmer surface temperatures during summers can cause more ice on Antarctica ice shelves to melt into standing water ponds, then leak into cracks and increase the odds of collapse, according to a new study published by an American team of scientists. Led by Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, the team focused on the Larsen Ice Sheet on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Larsen Ice Sheet experienced major retreats in 1995 and 1998, including more than 775 square miles that disintegrated during a January 1995 storm.

Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will explore the dynamics of the solar system and the way it was shaped by millions of collisions in "Cosmic Collisions and Our Solar System," Friday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium.

Joseph Juhasz, professor of architecture and environmental design at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been named president-elect of the population and environmental division of the American Psychological Association. Juhasz will begin serving a one-year term as president in August. The APA division, also known as Division 34, includes about 400 members studying the psychology of natural and constructed environments, as well as population psychology.