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Editors: A complete summit agenda is attached. The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ’s Fifth Annual Campus Diversity Summit, "Integrating Diversity, Scholarship and Action," will be held Feb. 22-23 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the University Memorial Center. The summit will use campus expertise to apply diversity scholarship in all areas of the university and will include roundtable discussions with authors of diversity and equity publications, panel discussions and presentations.

An astronaut, a congressman and several students will participate in a Feb. 12 program on campus that will include talks on a recent space shuttle mission, the future of space exploration and an upcoming CU-Â鶹ӰԺ student satellite mission. The program will feature veteran astronaut Mark Lee who has flown on four NASA shuttle missions, Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Space Subcommittee, and several CU undergraduates involved in the design and construction of the Citizen Explorer Satellite.

For the eighth year in a row, the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ ranked second in the nation for the number of graduates serving overseas as Peace Corps volunteers. The Peace Corps' annual list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities named the University of Wisconsin at Madison first with 117 graduates currently serving, followed by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ with 91 volunteers. The University of Michigan, the site of President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech proposing the Peace Corps, came in third with 78 volunteers.

Professor Jennifer Wolch of the University of Southern California will be in Â鶹ӰԺ to speak on "Race, Place, and Attitudes Toward Animals," on Feb. 11 at 4 p.m. in Guggenheim Geography, Room 205. Wolch, invited by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s geography department, is a professor of geography at USC and has been teaching and writing about how people and animals interact since the 1980s.

Sightings of a man with a vacuum strapped to his back riding a bicycle around the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus will not turn up a "ghostbuster," but rather a "roachbuster." Scott Harvey, who works in CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Facilities Management department, is the campus pest management technician. But he also is known as the campus "bugbuster," "roachman" and "antman." Harvey, who has been hunting roaches and other pests for more than 10 years, uses a technique called Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, to combat the universityÂ’s unwelcome guests.

The CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Corporate Excellence Awards, sponsored by the MBA program, will honor local businesses for their contributions to the community on Feb. 10. Companies to be recognized include Gold Systems Inc., Global Solar Energy, the Â鶹ӰԺ Public Works DepartmentÂ’s Utilities Division, U S West and Rhythms NetConnections Inc.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ MBA students won the $2,000 second-place prize at the western regional Venture Capital Investment Competition hosted at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ on Feb. 5. The team will advance with first-place finisher UCLA to the finals held at the University of North Carolina on March 23.

Robert S. Langer, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the father of modern biomaterials, will present the First Patten Distinguished Lecture at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. Langer will speak on "Biomaterials: Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering" at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 10, in Old Main Chapel. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception at the CU Heritage Center.

Alice K. Wondrak, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ doctoral student studying cultural geography and landscape theory, has been awarded a $75,000 scholarship from the Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program. Wondrak was one of eight nationally selected doctoral students awarded the scholarship, which was established in 1997 to encourage students to research scientific problems critical to the national parks. She was selected for her research in cultural sciences, one of four disciplines established under the scholarship program.

William Haid, registrar of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has accepted the position of executive director of enrollment services at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. His appointment is effective Feb. 28. Haid will lead enrollment services for the campus and will be involved in developing, monitoring and promoting the enrollment management plan. He will have direct responsibility for the departments of enrollment services, registrar, student financial services, accounts receivable operations and PC and networking services.