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Business educators from 39 states and several nations will attend a June 7-9 University of Colorado at Boulder conference designed to help tackle the complexities of teaching business ethics. About 200 educators are expected to attend the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business "Teaching Business Ethics" conference, sponsored by Qwest Communications International Inc. Educators from Puerto Rico and 14 countries including Afghanistan, Egypt, The Gambia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, South Africa and Spain are registered to attend the conference.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Buffalo Racing team finished 20th in a field of 140 entries at the 2006 Formula SAE engineering competition, its best finish in six years of consecutive entries. The competition, sponsored by Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler, was held May 17-20 at the Ford Proving Grounds in Romeo, Mich. A team from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, took first place and teams from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Michigan took second and third, respectively.

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A retiring history professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder has joined with colleagues and undergraduate students in the history department to collect 1,200 books to be donated to the University of New Orleans library, which was severely damaged by Hurricane Katina.

Farrand Field will be closed for one year and several basketball courts and athletic fields will be installed or upgraded this summer as $5.7 million in student-funded improvements begin at the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. Recreation Services officials will break ground at Farrand Field May 30 at 12:30 p.m. to signal the start of four campus projects.

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While rising interest rates and increased inventory of houses for sale indicate a cooling of the residential real estate market, the housing market has not experienced a speculative investment bubble that is about to burst, according to Thomas Thibodeau, the Global Real Estate Capital Markets Chair at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

The Alumni College at the University of Colorado at Boulder will examine issues surrounding the topic "Liberty, Security and Repression in Wartime, 1914 to present" in three sessions June 15-17. The three sessions, to meet in various classrooms throughout campus, will address World War I and World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam and the war on terror. The college will begin June 15 at 5 p.m. with a reception and registration at the Boulderado Hotel, 2115 13th St., in downtown Boulder.

A physics education Web site launched by Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, distinguished professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has won two international awards as an exemplary online resource.

A United Nations program that encourages the exchange of scholars and ideas between developing countries and the United States has granted a named professorship to University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Meg Moritz. Moritz will become the university's UNESCO Chair on July 1. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, established in 1945 to promote international cooperation among nearly 200 member states in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.