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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ’s Science Discovery program will host a night of family entertainment featuring a CU Wizard Show and a Square Dance Extravaganza from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 19 at the First Congregational Church of Â鶹ӰԺ. Proceeds from the event will benefit Science Discovery, an outreach program of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ that offers science presentations to young people through field trips, workshops, wilderness camps and other programs.

Five finalists for dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will begin campus visits on Sunday, April 13. Following campus visits by each of the five finalists the search committee, chaired by Engineering Dean Ross Corotis, will make its final recommendation on the position to Wallace Loh, vice chancellor for academic affairs. The finalists, their current positions and the dates of their campus visits are:

Edward C. Stone, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and internationally known planetary scientist, will lecture at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ April 15 in a talk titled “The Search for Life Elsewhere.” Stone has served as the project scientist for NASAÂ’s Voyager mission since 1972 and coordinated the efforts of 11 teams of scientists in their studies of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. As the lead U.S. center for the robotic exploration of the solar system, JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology.

A description of how CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory was developed might read a little like the Gettysburg Address with the addition of the word student: of the students, by the students and for the students. The three-story, 34,000 square foot laboratory is intended primarily for use by undergraduate engineering students and this semester is being used for freshmen, sophomore and junior courses.