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More than 80 engineering student design projects including a Rube Goldberg smore-making machine, a water-balloon launcher and a 3-D maze will be demonstrated at the University of Colorado at Boulder's ITL Spring Design Expo April 29. The end-of-semester event, which is free and open to the public from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., will include interactive demonstrations in the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory as well as outside on Herbst Plaza. The ITL Laboratory is located on Regent Drive just south of Colorado Avenue.

A candlelight vigil for Jesse Gomez, a University of Colorado at Boulder sophomore who died on April 9, will be held Tuesday, April 25, at 8:30 p.m. on Farrand Field on the CU-Boulder campus. People planning to attend the vigil are encouraged to bring a candle and to think of memories of Gomez they would like to share. Gomez, 18, was a first-year student at CU-Boulder from Lakewood majoring in electrical engineering and was a resident of Willard Hall. His friends and family are organizing the vigil.

Â鶹ÒùÔº, faculty and staff at the University of Colorado at Boulder need to be aware of the growing threat of mumps infection that has spread rapidly in some Midwestern states, including Iowa where state health officials have declared an epidemic. Iowa has had 975 cases of mumps since the end of January 2006, compared to five cases annually in recent years, the biggest outbreak of mumps in the past 17 years. People in the 18- to 25-year age group have been particularly hard hit, causing concern on college campuses.

Telescope demonstrations, sunspot viewing and the unveiling of several new hands-on exhibits are among the highlights of Astronomy Day, a family-oriented event to be held on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Saturday, April 29.

MEDIA ADVISORY The University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted the chief recommendations of the Licensing Advisory Committee, which has expressed qualified support for the Designated Supplier Program proposed by the national United Â鶹ÒùÔº Against Sweatshop Apparel and campaigned for on the Boulder campus by students and others aligned with the Coalition Against Sweatshop Apparel (CASA).

Note to Editors: Alejandro Ramirez is currently working at Columbia University in New York City. Please contact the News Services Office for contact information. University of Colorado at Boulder alumnus Alejandro Ramirez this spring became the first CU-Boulder graduate to win the Gates Cambridge Scholarship for study in the United Kingdom, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host four evening talks on April 27-28 to celebrate CU-Boulder's role in the successful and ongoing Cassini spacecraft mission to Saturn. Researchers involved in the Cassini mission will give talks each evening at 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. in the planetarium.

Two women faculty members from the University of Colorado at Boulder will be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences on Saturday, April 22, in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. University of Colorado Museum Director and anthropology Professor Linda Cordell and Deborah Jin, a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an associate adjoint professor in CU-Boulder's physics department, will be honored at the ceremony in the NAS Great Hall. The public induction ceremony will be followed by a reception.

MEDIA ADVISORY The Licensing Advisory Committee of the University of Colorado at Boulder has forwarded a recommendation of "qualified support" for a proposal on a Designated Suppliers Program, which is being promoted by a national student organization including the group's CU-Boulder chapter. The recommendation was submitted on April 18 by Professor William Wei, chair of CU-Boulder's Licensing Advisory Committee, to Vice Chancellor for Administration Paul Tabolt. A copy of the recommendation letter is included below and attached.

Two nationally prominent scientists will participate in a free public program April 25 at the University of Colorado at Boulder on the fossil and biological evidence for evolution titled "Fossils and Genes: Exploring the Evolution of Life."