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Constance Clark, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ doctoral history student, received this year's national Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians. Clark was honored with the award for her essay, "Evolution for John Doe: Pictures, the Public, and the Scopes Trial Debate," which will be published in the Journal of American History.

The University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will be the site of the 2000 Spring Â鶹ӰԺ Campus Blood Drive. Open to the public, the blood drive will be held in the UMC west ballroom from Feb. 22 through Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ staff, faculty and students interested in donating blood can sign up for appointments at the UMC loggia from Feb. 14 through Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by calling the Â鶹ӰԺ Staff Council at (303) 492-5473 by noon on Feb. 21.

A rousing round of "Happy Birthday" will echo from Willard Hall room 334 on Friday, March 10, to mark the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource CenterÂ’s five-year anniversary. The center was born in 1995, three years after the passage of Amendment 2, a statewide anti-gay initiative. It was founded after a special task force felt a need to improve campus conditions for the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities.

Several free events will be offered during the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Spring Parents Weekend, Feb. 25-27, including presentations on jazz music, the challenges of the 21st century and off-campus housing. Parents and the general public are invited to attend. Last year's most popular session, "Finding Housing Off Campus," will be presented by Dale Severance, director of Off-Campus Student Services. Severance will discuss housing costs, landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities, and provide information on available housing services.

The next CU Wizards program will help students catch up on the physics of "Speed," on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 9:30 a.m. in the Duane Physics building, room G1B30, on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. Eric Cornell, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ physics professor and Fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, will measure "lots of different kinds of speeds" at the free, hour-long presentation, intended primarily for students in grades 5 through 9.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Susan Avery will give the third in a series of four lectures for the spring ChancellorÂ’s Community Lecture Series. Titled "Women in the Field," the series features four distinguished women faculty from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ, each speaking on their areas of expertise. Professor AveryÂ’s lecture, "Catch a Falling Star and Put it to Work," is on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel of The Academy at 970 Aurora Ave. in Â鶹ӰԺ.

Professor Patty Jo Watson, an internationally known archaeologist from Washington University in St. Louis, will give a free public lecture at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Feb. 25. Watson will present the 2000 Distinguished Archaeology lecture titled "Cave Archaeology in North America." Sponsored by the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ anthropology department and funded by a department alumnus, the talk will be held at 8 p.m. in room 270 of the Hale Science Building.

The president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Robert Weisbuch, will deliver a lecture, "Unleashing the Humanities: The Liberal Arts Take Over America," on Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host the Second Annual WomenÂ’s Health Roundtable, "Building Community by Helping Ourselves and Each Other," on Monday, Feb. 28, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center. The event is free and open to the public. The Roundtable will provide men and women with important information and encourage discussion on critical health issues that may affect them and their mothers, sisters, partners and friends.

Two assistant professors of physics at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, Dan Dessau and Anton Andreev, have each won prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation. Dessau will receive $360,000 over the next four years and Andreev will receive $200,000. The awards are given to exceptionally promising junior faculty at U.S. colleges and universities who are committed to the integration of research and education. In 1999, the NSF granted about 350 of the highly competitive awards.