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University of Colorado Nobel laureate Thomas Cech will speak at the July 29-30 public grand opening of a teaching laboratory on the Boulder campus to train CU students, faculty and K-12 students and teachers on the latest genetic research techniques.

A small, powerful University of Colorado at Boulder instrument will fly on NASA's MESSENGER mission, slated for launch Aug. 2 from Cape Kennedy, Fla., to probe Mercury's searing surface, oddball atmosphere and bizarre magnetic field.

University of Colorado at Boulder sociologist and author Leslie Irvine is using what is known about human infants to prove a point many scientists won't formally examine - that domesticated dogs and cats each have unique personalities and are smarter than we think. Irvine explores animals' sense of self and their interactions with humans in her new book, "If You Tame Me: Human Identity and the Value of Animals' Lives." She used a new approach to illustrating pet intelligence.

Colorado's photonics industry, which employs more than 28,000 people in Colorado, is poised to grow in 2004, according to new research published by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. The findings appear in the 2004-05 Colorado Photonics Industry directory published by the Leeds School's Business Research Division and Business Advancement Center and commissioned by the Colorado Photonics Industry Association.

Note to Editors: John Lymberopoulos will leave for Greece on Aug. 3, but will be reachable by phone in Greece. Contact him at (303) 492-7541 to make arrangements before Aug. 3. A photo also is available. As the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece approach, one CU-Boulder professor is anxiously counting down the days until he leaves for his birth country to volunteer at the games he has been passionate about for more than 50 years.

Nobel prize winning physicist and University of Colorado at Boulder adjoint Professor Eric Cornell will offer a layman's explanation of his work with super-cooled atoms and new states of condensed matter at a free public lecture July 22. "Stone Cold Science: Things Get Weird Around Absolute Zero" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in room G1B20 of the Duane Physics Building on the CU-Boulder campus.

The old business adage that a company does well by doing good needs adjusting, according to new research led by a University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business professor.

Note to Editors: On July 20, photographers and reporters are invited to the San Juan Learning Center, 3164 34th St., from 3-5 p.m. and to the Sunrise Assisted Living Center, 3955 28th St., from 1-5 p.m. where Denver high school students enrolled in CU's pre-collegiate program have been working with kids and seniors this summer. Call Joanna Maes for details, (303) 492-8243. Dozens of Denver area high school students will complete five weeks of community volunteering and rigorous college preparatory classes at the University of Colorado at Boulder July 20.

Business educators from across the country will gather in Boulder July 21-23 to attend a conference designed to improve and increase the teaching of business ethics at colleges and universities.

The best view ever of Saturn's rings in the ultraviolet indicates there is more ice toward the outer part of the rings, hinting at ring origin and evolution, say two University of Colorado at Boulder researchers involved in the Cassini mission. Researchers from CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Joshua Colwell and Larry Esposito, said the UV spectra taken during the Cassini spacecraft's orbital insertion June 30 show definite compositional variation in the A, B and C rings.