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What do a magician, star-crossed lovers, a ghost, three witches and a gossiping wife have in common? Shakespeare, of course, and the performance of, "Boy Meets Girl Meets Shakespeare." The show will be performed at Eaton High School for students and faculty at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 29, incorporating scenes from "The Tempest," "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "Macbeth" and "Taming of the Shrew."

The International WomenÂ’s Alliance at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will hold its 25th annual International WomenÂ’s Week March 5-10. This yearÂ’s theme is "The Political Economy of Violence: Women of Color Resisting Militarization, State Terror, and Violence in Our Lives." Questions and issues on unemployment, increases in the military and prison budgets and racism and sexism in health care will be addressed through a series of workshops, films, lectures, theater performances and art exhibits.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Anne Costain will give the final lecture for the spring ChancellorÂ’s Community Lecture Series. Professor CostainÂ’s lecture, "Media Portrayal of Feminist Protest," is on Tuesday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel at The Academy, 970 Aurora Ave. in Â鶹ӰԺ, completing the spring series titled "Women in the Field."

A landmark University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study has confirmed that early detection and intervention involving infants with hearing loss has startlingly positive effects on their subsequent language abilities.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Delores Etter, of the department of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, joining nine other faculty from the campus who have been elected since the Academy's formation in 1962.

A unique program featuring historians, authors, artists, poets, archaeologists and photographers will be held at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Feb. 26 to probe the meanings of Native American prehistory to different groups of Americans. Titled "Chaco, Mesa Verde and the Confrontation with Time," the panel discussion will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on campus. Co-sponsored by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Center of the American West, the CU Museum and the National Park Service, the program is free and open to the public.

"Myths of Mitigation: A View of Ecological Restoration in California's Central Valley," a lecture by Sharon Collinge, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professor of environmental, population and organismic biology will be on Thursday, March 2, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 235.

A NASA-funded study to search for links between local climatic variation and the beginning of specific amphibian declines that have occurred in three areas of the world in the past several decades has turned up no significant correlation between the two.

Citing their belief that "the future of business in the ‘new economyÂ’ is in entrepreneurship and e-commerce," Bob and Beverly Deming have backed up that sentiment with a $500,000 gift to endow an entrepreneurship professorship at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s College of Business and Administration. The gift is in addition to the DemingÂ’s gift two years ago of $3 million to the burgeoning Entrepreneurship Center, which now bears the Deming name.

ColoradoÂ’s smart growth initiatives and their impact on the real estate industry will be discussed at the 2000 CU Real Estate Council Annual Conference, "Dollars and Sense: Where Capital Markets Meet Smart Growth" on Friday, Feb. 25. The all-day event, hosted by the University of Colorado Real Estate Center and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.