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Innovative programs at Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas and Colgate-Palmolive Co. of New York will be presented Summit Awards today by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. The "Bright Smiles, Bright Futures" program at Colgate-Palmolive won the Summit Award for Social Impact, and Texas Instruments' fabrication plant in Richardson, Texas, won the Summit Award for Environmental Leadership. Both winners were one of three finalists for each award given by the Leeds School's Center for Business and Society.

University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law students, faculty, staff and alumni will celebrate the topping off of the new $46 million Wolf Law Building on Sept. 22 at 10:30 a.m. with a ceremonial signing of the last beam to be placed on top of the structure. The 178,000-square-foot building, constructed in the neo-Tuscan style that marks the architecture of the CU-Boulder campus, is scheduled for completion in June 2006. Law Dean David Getches will lead the ceremony.

Robert Collins, chair of the urban studies and public policy department at Dillard University in New Orleans, will speak Sept. 26 at the University of Colorado at Boulder on the relative costs of preventing and recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Collins' presentation, "Lessons From the Drowning Pool: Analyzing the Past and Future of Disaster Mitigation Planning Following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans," will begin at 4 p.m. in the auditorium inside Old Main on the CU-Boulder campus.

The first nine years of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah will be discussed with monument manager Dave Hunsaker in a public event at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Sept. 28. Hunsaker will speak at 7 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 1B50 followed by a conversation with CU-Boulder history and environmental studies Professor Patricia Nelson Limerick and Distinguished Professor Charles Wilkinson of the law school. The free event is sponsored by the CU-Boulder Center of the American West.

Partly by design, both overall enrollment and the size of the freshman class are down slightly this year at the University of Colorado at Boulder but despite the overall downsizing, ethnic minority undergraduate enrollment is up, according to census figures released today. Following a record freshman class of almost 5,600 in 2003, a reduction in freshman enrollment to 5,000 was planned over two years to moderate the impact of rapid growth over the last 10 years, especially in the number of undergraduates.

Note to Editors: The Hurricane Katrina image can be downloaded at http://ccar.colorado.edu/~leben/katrina_path.pdf . An image produced by a University of Colorado at Boulder team shows the wind speeds of Hurricane Katrina increasing dramatically as it passes through the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current toward the Gulf Coast in late August.

The economic effects of Hurricane Katrina could linger for local charities and the tourism industry in Colorado, according to University of Colorado at Boulder economist Richard Wobbekind. "I think the hurricane has the potential to impact the nonprofit communities in Colorado," said Wobbekind, director of the Business Research Division in the Leeds School of Business. "We saw a dramatic drop-off in local giving after Sept. 11 and to a lesser degree after the tsunami.

Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder Sept. 23 to speak about his new book, "Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America." Babbitt's presentation starts at 3 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a book signing and sale. Babbitt's appearance is sponsored by CU-Boulder's Center of the American West, Natural Resources Law Center and Center for Environmental Journalism.

Landscape paintings depicting high mountains and polar regions by internationally known University of Colorado at Boulder glaciologist Mark Meier will be on display at the Boulder Public Library and at his home studio from Sept. 30 to Oct. 9. Meier, the former director of CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research who has conducted research from Greenland to the South Pole, will display his paintings at the library and at his home as part of the Boulder Open Studios project. His paintings have been displayed, commissioned and sold in the United States and Europe.

"Highlights of the CU Art Museum's Permanent Collection," a free public exhibit presented by the University of Colorado at Boulder Friends of the Libraries, will take place Sept. 30 at the University of Colorado at Boulder Art Museum. Exhibit curator and director of the CU Art Museum Lisa Tamaris Becker will discuss some of the works on display at the 7 p.m. event. The exhibit includes Pre-Columbian ceramics, Goya, Rembrandt, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Warhol and many others. A catered reception will follow the presentation.