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Hundreds of students from throughout Colorado will be on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus to present a wide array of projects, many a year in the making, during the 22nd annual Colorado History Day. About 500 students in grades six through 12 will compete in the event on Saturday, April 26, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the CU-Boulder campus. The winners will move on to the National History Day competition in June. The theme of this year's competition is "Rights and Responsibilities in History."

Â鶹ÒùÔº at the University of Colorado at Boulder this week are celebrating Engineering Days, a week-long technology fest featuring the annual College Egg Drop, Vertical Take-off Challenge and Engineering Carnival. Co-sponsored by the University of Colorado Engineering Council, corporate sponsors, and professional engineering societies, E-Days is an annual celebration of the engineering profession and a chance for students to apply their engineering skills in fun and creative ways.

Note to Editors: To arrange photos or interviews with Medoff, Shinn or anyone involved in the production, please call Laima Gaigalas at the number above. As the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music's opera department prepares to premiere "Sara McKinnon" April 24, student performers are enjoying a rare opportunity to work with the opera's Tony Award-winning librettist as well as its composer, a CU-Boulder alumnus.

A new study suggests that agriculture can successfully coexist with continuing population growth and urban sprawl in some areas of the Great Plains. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado, found that despite explosive population growth over the last 50 years in Denver, Boulder and other eastern Colorado Plains cities, total harvested area in the region increased by 5 percent and the amount of irrigated land that is harvested jumped by 73 percent.

A group of researchers led by the University of Colorado at Boulder have solved the crystal structure of a molecule switch that can trigger heart disease and cancer, paving the way for future drug designs to mitigate these diseases.

As the war winds down in Iraq, many teachers still may find themselves fighting battles in their classrooms, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder education professor. In schools throughout the United States, students and teachers have tried to figure out how the war in Iraq should be addressed in the classroom. Facing conflicting demands from students, parents, administrators and their own sense of professional responsibility, teachers are often caught in the middle, according to CU-Boulder Professor Kevin Welner.

Nine University of Colorado at Boulder students will be honored at an April 16 banquet as the winners of the fourth annual Western American Writing Awards presented by the university's Center of the American West. R. Todd Laugen, Jayme Catalano, W. Austin Arensberg and David Isaac Stonehill each will receive $350 first-prize awards. Elizabeth Marglin, Jay D. Rumisek, Serena Chopra, Susan Coley Huth and Sarah Hoffman each will receive honorable mention awards of $100.

Editors: Tours of a four-bedroom, two-bath model are available for reporters and photographers. Contact Rob Martin, general manager, at (303) 443-2521 or rmartin@studenthousing.com to schedule an appointment. Bear Creek Apartments at Williams Village, the new student housing project at the University of Colorado at Boulder, features a variety of on-site amenities for students.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Cultural Events Board will present a public lecture Friday, April 18 by a noted champion of anti-discrimination efforts across the country. Attorney Morris Dees' presentation, "Tolerances: Has America Progressed?" will take place at the Flatirons Theater on the Hill at 7:30 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

A lecture on "Disciples of the Buddha and the Words of Chogyam Trungpa" will be presented at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Wednesday, April 16. The illustrated lecture by Robert Newman begins at 7 p.m. in room N141 in the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building. Newman is the author of the book, "Disciples of the Buddha: Living Images of Meditation," which deals with a famous set of Chinese ceramic statues. He also is director of the World Health Foundation in Ashland, Ore., which specializes in meditational healing.