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The formation and growth of planets and stars will be explored at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, July 11, at 8 p.m. John Bally, a professor in the astrophysical and planetary sciences department, will present a live show on "The Birth of Stars and Planets." During the presentation Bally will highlight recent observations of star and planet formation and show how scientists using giant ground-based telescopes, space-based instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope and computer modeling have made some incredible discoveries.

Norton L. Steuben, Nicholas Rosenbaum professor emeritus at the CU-Boulder School of Law, and Richard Noble, CU-Boulder professor of chemical and biological engineering, have been awarded Fulbright grants to teach internationally.

MEDIA ADVISORY July 3, 2003 A news briefing to release a new report from the CU-Boulder Center of the American West titled "What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy" will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 8, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The briefing, in the University Memorial Center, room 425, will end about 11:15 a.m. To get to the briefing room, enter the UMC from Euclid Avenue through the south terrace doors and take the elevator or stairs near the main doors to the fourth floor.

When it comes to investing money in the stock market, investors should create a balanced portfolio and then actively rebalance their portfolio as the market goes up and down, according to Professor Michael Stutzer of the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business. It sounds simple enough, Stutzer said, but many investors don't do it. Instead they jump in and out of the market or just let their money ride, and when the market goes down many are left behind the curve holding too many stocks or not enough bonds.

The Sept. 11 evacuation of the World Trade Center will be addressed by USA Today reporter Martha Moore at the University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center's 28th annual workshop to be held in Boulder July 13-16. The event will bring together about 350 researchers and front-line managers who deal with the impacts of terrorist attacks and extreme natural events such as earthquakes and hurricanes. The workshop, which is not open to the public, will be at the Millennium Harvest House at 1345 28th St. in Boulder.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Wardenburg Health Center has been awarded laboratory accreditation by the College of American Pathologists, based on the results of a recent on-site inspection. The center's laboratory director, Dr. Thomas Kunstman, was congratulated by the medical society's Commission on Laboratory Accreditation for the "excellence of the services being provided."

About 30,000 people are expected to attend the 4th of July Fireworks at Folsom Field on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and officials urge spectators to arrive early if they are parking on campus. Doors at Folsom Field open at 6 p.m. Parking for the festivities will be in lots off of Regent Drive, accessible via Broadway or Colorado Avenue. Additional parking will be available in the Euclid Avenue Autopark, next to the University Memorial Center, and surrounding lots. Parking on campus is free during university holidays.

The growing field of spintronics will be explored July 10 during the lecture "A New Spin on Electronics" at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Stuart Parkin, an IBM fellow and manager of the Magnetoelectronics Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., will present the free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20 on the CU-Boulder campus.

As the stagnant job market drags on, Colorado employers may be amassing a workforce of dissatisfied and under-performing workers, according to experts at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

To better understand the impact of the June 23 decisions on affirmative action by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law at the CU-Boulder School of Law will hold a panel presentation on July 1. Titled "What Do the Michigan Affirmative Action Decisions Mean for Universities and Colleges? A Discussion by Constitutional Law Scholars," the presentation will be held from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom of the Fleming Law Building. The event is free and open to the public.