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The Byron White Center at the University of Colorado School of Law will sponsor the seventh annual Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference titled "Law and Character" on Friday and Saturday, April 7-8. During the roundtable format, some of the nationÂ’s most thoughtful jurists, practitioners and scholars will explore the relationship between moral character and the legal system by examining the lives of great lawyers such as Brandeis, Cardozo, Holmes, Hand, Harlan, Marshall and ColoradoÂ’s own Byron White.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will hold a public meeting on the Williams Village student housing expansion project on April 4 at 7 p.m. at Stearns Central, room 179, in the Williams Village complex. According to Derrick Watson, project coordinator, the purpose of the meeting is to introduce residents to the new developers of the project, American Campus Communities, and to provide an update on the status of the project.

Ross B. Corotis, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, has been appointed to the Board on Assessment charged with reviewing National Institute of Standards and Technology laboratories and programs. He is one of six members at large on the board.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Philosophy Elder Program of Colorado will have its first meeting on Wednesday, March 29, at 7 p.m. to explore a variety of enduring philosophical questions and problems. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ faculty members and graduate student teachers will meet in Â鶹ӰԺ at The Academy, 970 Aurora Ave., with interested elders age 55 and above and their partners for a discussion on "What is Philosophy and Why Study It?" led by philosophy Assistant Professor Michael Huemer. PEP-CO Director Elizabeth Slokar also will provide information and history on the program.

The CU-Â鶹ӰԺ School of Education has received $80,000 to help new teachers use technology in their classrooms, especially teachers who will be working in low-income areas. The U.S. Department of Education grant will be coupled with an additional $85,000 provided by the School of Education and the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society program.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ-based Membrane Applied Science and Technology Center has announced the appointment of mechanical engineering Professor Alan Greenberg as the new co-director of the center. Greenberg joins chemical engineering Professor Richard Noble, MAST's other co-director, in administering the unique cooperative research center. The center is supported by the National Science Foundation and industrial sponsors in addition to the university.

Novelist, essayist and disability studies scholar Georgina Kleege will present "HK: Dead Letters to Helen Keller," a free lecture at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on March 23 at 7 p.m. in University Memorial Center rooms 157A-B. Kleege has been legally blind since the age of 11. Kleege is an assistant professor in the English department at Ohio State University. Her book, "Sight Unseen," is acclaimed for demonstrating that the plight of the blind is partly its own reality and largely due to the creation of the normally sighted.

If you are one those people who despise math and "feel physically ill at the sight of an equation," Professor Edward Burger of Williams College may be able to help remedy the problem at a special CU-Â鶹ӰԺ lecture March 21. Burger, who was a visiting CU-Â鶹ӰԺ mathematics professor from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., during the 1998-1999 school year, packed the house in his April 1999 CU-Â鶹ӰԺ talk on "Why I Hate Math But Love Museums."

Richard L. Byyny, chancellor of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, agreed today to meet on Wednesday with students concerned about the campusÂ’ licensing policies. Byyny sent the students a document to guide the discussion, which he said he hopes will be both civil and productive. The issues the chancellor wishes to cover are principles in licensing that relate to human rights and human dignity, the development of a campus licensing advisory board to guide and evaluate compliance, and campus opportunities for education and airing of the issues.

Complex scientific concepts of light, polarization and optics will be explained using a giant soap bubble, sunglasses and scarab beetles, among other things, at the March 25 Wizards show on "Liquid Crystals." Physics Professor Noel Clark and chemistry Professor David Walba, both at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, will present the entertaining multi-media show at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30. The free hour-long show, which combines physics, chemistry and engineering, is intended primarily for students in grades five through nine.