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University of Colorado chemistry Professor David Nesbitt will present the final CU Wizards program of the semester, "Chemistry is Fun," on Saturday, Dec. 26. The program will be in the Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building, room 140, at 9:30 a.m. Nesbitt will use exciting visual displays and experiments to illustrate the basic concepts of chemistry. He plans to produce several explosions, show how liquids mix or don't mix, demonstrate the effects of temperature on chemical reactions and explain how fireworks get their colorful glows.

Brian D. Smith of Decatur, Ill., and Li Zhao of Broomfield have received the 1998 Brian Butterfield Fellowship in Telecommunications awarded by Andersen Consulting LLP. The recipients are first-year graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado. As this year's awardees, they receive scholarship money and an internship position during the summer at Andersen Consulting's Denver office.

Editors: Ross will be available for interviews from Dec. 28 through Jan. 6. Bertrall LeNarado Ross, who rose from poverty and a broken home to become an honors student at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has won a prestigious British Marshall Scholarship that will sponsor several years of advanced studies at a university in the United Kingdom.

Editors: Photos of many of the listed events are available by calling Wynn Martens, 492-7084, or Amy Taylor, 492-6431. Campus response to the "CU in the Community," campaign during October was positive and overwhelmingly achieved the goal of increasing faculty, student and staff involvement in community programs, according to Wynn Martens, director of community relations at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ.

By the fall semester 1999, all 5,400 students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ who live in residence halls will have their own high-speed computer connections, allowing them to download reference and educational material quickly from around the world on their personal computers.

NightRide/NightWalk, the volunteer service at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ that shepherds students safely to their homes, has expanded its operations to meet the growing number of people dialing 492-SAFE. Cumulative statistics from August through October of this year show the service was used 895 times, more than double the 367 requests recorded in the same three months of 1997.

Teams of students from the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will compete in the Bank One Business Plan Competition at 6:30 p.m. on Wed., Dec. 9. The competition, which will be held in Room 200 of the College of Engineering, is free and open to the public. The competition is hosted by the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, a joint venture between CU's colleges of business and engineering.

Special recognition ceremonies will be sponsored by most University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ schools and colleges in addition to the university-wide commencement ceremony on Dec. 19 in the Coors Events/Conference Center. Following is a schedule of special events to be held by the schools and colleges, which also are open to the public: - Architecture and Planning – Recognition ceremony for architecture and planning graduates, Dec. 18, 3 p.m., Environmental Design Building.

What did Winston Churchill, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin have in common? Not only did their lives shape history, but their ability to convey gigantic ideas was all the more remarkable because each stuttered. "The movies often portray the stereotype of people who stutter as being less intelligent," said Professor Peter Ramig of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. "That certainly is not the case." In fact, even a couple of HollywoodÂ’s best-known stars with unique speaking styles - Marilyn Monroe and James Earl Jones - stuttered.

Much of the energetic electron activity in Earth's radiation belts, once thought to be generated by the sun and solar wind, actually is accelerated to light-speed by Earth's own magnetic shell, creating periodic havoc with satellites.