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Lillian R. BeVier, the Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, will deliver the 43rd annual John R. Coen Lecture on March 14 in the Lindsey Memorial Courtroom at the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ School of Law. The lecture titled "When I Speak, Does the State Act?" will begin at 4 p.m. and will focus on First Amendment and freedom of speech issues.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study of landlocked salmon indicates they possess a genetically programmed "aging clock" timed by reproduction, which may provide insight into human aging and AlzheimerÂ’s disease.

Editors: Photographers are welcome to attend this event including the demonstrations on Aikido martial arts and origami and performances of the shakuhachi flute and traditional dance. Â鶹ӰԺ 100 Colorado high school students taking Japanese courses, their teachers, and students and faculty of the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ East Asian languages and civilizations department will gather on March 18 for Japan Day 2000.

Genealogist and private investigator Kathleen Hinckley will present the program "Be Your Own Detective: Locate Lost Family and Friends" on Sunday, March 19, at 2 p.m. at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. The lecture, sponsored by the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Friends of the Libraries, will be held in the Benson Earth Sciences Building auditorium, room 180, and is free and open to the public. "Attendees will learn how to get started on researching their 'roots' or locating lost individuals," said Friends of the Libraries President Ruth Kahn.

The Wirth Forum on Religion and Nature in the West will present a public colloquium led by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Patricia Limerick and Professor Mark Silk, director of the Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Connecticut, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, in the Hale Science Building, room 270. The talk at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will be a synopsis of two days of conversation by a gathering of academic experts from across the United States.

Chancellor Richard L. Byyny has made a commitment to correct gender inequities in salaries among University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty within three years. Each year since he assumed the responsibilities of Chancellor, Byyny has requested an analysis of salaries by gender, rank and discipline. The most recent salary analysis showed that white female faculty at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ earn an average of $1,123 less than their white male colleagues, Byyny said.

EDITORS: A complete CU Moving Company performance schedule for Lakewood, Lafayette, Niwot, Â鶹ӰԺ, Salida and Denver is attached. The CU Moving Company, a dance group of six undergraduate dance majors from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has started its spring performances and workshops to educate and entertain school-age audiences. "The purpose is to supplement the arts in the schools," said David Capps, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ assistant dance professor who instructs the group. "We'd like to bring dance in as a vital art form."

Two University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ aerospace engineering undergraduate teams are now in Houston, readying to fly on NASAÂ’s KC-135 aircraft from Johnson Space Flight Center to test the effects of zero gravity on experiments they designed.

Rebecca R. French, associate professor of law at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, will give the 25th annual Austin W. Scott Jr. lecture titled "Law, Time and Identity" on March 8 at 4 p.m. in the Fleming Law Building. French will focus on how anthropological analysis, historical comparisons and legal system examples can provide new ways of examining time, identity and law. She will discuss how EinsteinÂ’s theory of relativity, George GamowÂ’s popularization of the expanding universe and our cultural "heroes" contribute to our new perspectives.

The results of a new study conducted in the rapidly expanding Denver metropolitan area indicates children living near heavily traveled streets or highways are at significantly greater risk of developing cancer, including childhood leukemia.