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A new podcast produced by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ News Services office features safety expert Mike Morrison of the department of Environmental Health and Safety talking about the safe use of disposable masks in the event of a flu pandemic. To access the podcast go to www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/index.html and click "play" on "Use of Fitted Masks in Case of a Flu Pandemic." Recent podcasts on "Safe Schools" and "CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Passes Peace Corps Milestone" also are posted on the Web site.

Several University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ scientists involved in editing or authoring sections of the report of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change slated for release Feb. 2 in Paris are available for media interviews.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to design and build a small student satellite to study variations in Earth's atmosphere and its effects on spacecraft.

The Colorado Hispanic Bar Association awarded Lorenzo Trujillo, assistant dean at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ School of Law, the Chris Miranda Outstanding Hispanic Lawyer Award for 2006. "Each year the association presents the award to an outstanding Hispanic attorney who has shown a continual commitment to the Hispanic community and the principles of the legal profession," said Awilda Marquez, president of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association.

The reasons that compel some business leaders and executives to behave in ways that damage their careers or risk the financial viability of their companies are examined in a new book by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ business Professor Mathew Hayward.

Donna Gerren, engineering instructor at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has received the 2007 Faculty Advisor Award presented by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the organization's January meeting in Reno, Nev. The award was presented to Gerren during the 2007 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit Jan. 8-11. Gerren was honored "for outstanding and sustained commitment and enthusiasm for student education and involvement in the AIAA Student Branch at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ."

Ken Adelman, a former United Nations ambassador and arms control director for the Reagan administration and an adviser to the U.S. Department of Defense, will participate in a series of panel discussions on political intrigue and family dysfunction in Shakespeare's "King Lear." The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts will co-host the panels on Jan. 28 and 29.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty member has received a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop new technologies to improve the performance and economics of clean power generation systems. The grant received by Christine Hrenya, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, is aligned with the goals of FutureGen, a 10-year project aimed at creating the world's first coal plant with near-zero emissions.

University of California, Berkeley anthropologist Margaret Conkey, one of the world's leading authorities on Stone Age art and artifacts from ice age Europe, will give a lecture at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Saturday, Feb. 3.

Nine University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ doctoral programs have been ranked high in a faculty productivity index featured in the Jan. 12 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, including the geography department, which ranked second in the nation. Other CU-Â鶹ӰԺ programs ranked in the top 10 included physical oceanography (4), communication (6), cognitive science (7), atmospheric sciences (8), chemical engineering (8), biomedical engineering (9), civil and environmental engineering (9) and aeronautical and aerospace engineering (10).