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Several free events will be offered during the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Spring Parents Weekend, Feb. 25-27, including presentations on jazz music, the challenges of the 21st century and off-campus housing. Parents and the general public are invited to attend. Last year's most popular session, "Finding Housing Off Campus," will be presented by Dale Severance, director of Off-Campus Student Services. Severance will discuss housing costs, landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities, and provide information on available housing services.

The next CU Wizards program will help students catch up on the physics of "Speed," on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 9:30 a.m. in the Duane Physics building, room G1B30, on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. Eric Cornell, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ physics professor and Fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, will measure "lots of different kinds of speeds" at the free, hour-long presentation, intended primarily for students in grades 5 through 9.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Susan Avery will give the third in a series of four lectures for the spring ChancellorÂ’s Community Lecture Series. Titled "Women in the Field," the series features four distinguished women faculty from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, each speaking on their areas of expertise. Professor AveryÂ’s lecture, "Catch a Falling Star and Put it to Work," is on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel of The Academy at 970 Aurora Ave. in Â鶹ӰԺ.

Professor Patty Jo Watson, an internationally known archaeologist from Washington University in St. Louis, will give a free public lecture at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Feb. 25. Watson will present the 2000 Distinguished Archaeology lecture titled "Cave Archaeology in North America." Sponsored by the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ anthropology department and funded by a department alumnus, the talk will be held at 8 p.m. in room 270 of the Hale Science Building.

The president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Robert Weisbuch, will deliver a lecture, "Unleashing the Humanities: The Liberal Arts Take Over America," on Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host the Second Annual WomenÂ’s Health Roundtable, "Building Community by Helping Ourselves and Each Other," on Monday, Feb. 28, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center. The event is free and open to the public. The Roundtable will provide men and women with important information and encourage discussion on critical health issues that may affect them and their mothers, sisters, partners and friends.

Two assistant professors of physics at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, Dan Dessau and Anton Andreev, have each won prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation. Dessau will receive $360,000 over the next four years and Andreev will receive $200,000. The awards are given to exceptionally promising junior faculty at U.S. colleges and universities who are committed to the integration of research and education. In 1999, the NSF granted about 350 of the highly competitive awards.

Editors: A complete summit agenda is attached. The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ’s Fifth Annual Campus Diversity Summit, "Integrating Diversity, Scholarship and Action," will be held Feb. 22-23 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the University Memorial Center. The summit will use campus expertise to apply diversity scholarship in all areas of the university and will include roundtable discussions with authors of diversity and equity publications, panel discussions and presentations.

An astronaut, a congressman and several students will participate in a Feb. 12 program on campus that will include talks on a recent space shuttle mission, the future of space exploration and an upcoming CU-Â鶹ӰԺ student satellite mission. The program will feature veteran astronaut Mark Lee who has flown on four NASA shuttle missions, Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Space Subcommittee, and several CU undergraduates involved in the design and construction of the Citizen Explorer Satellite.

For the eighth year in a row, the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ ranked second in the nation for the number of graduates serving overseas as Peace Corps volunteers. The Peace Corps' annual list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities named the University of Wisconsin at Madison first with 117 graduates currently serving, followed by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ with 91 volunteers. The University of Michigan, the site of President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech proposing the Peace Corps, came in third with 78 volunteers.