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Editors: Media are invited to tour the Discovery Learning Center from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Oct. 17. Engineering faculty and students will be on hand to discuss the new facility and current research. Please call Carol Rowe, (303) 492-7426, for more information. The College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder will open and dedicate an innovative new engineering facility on Oct. 18, which is designed to make research more accessible to undergraduates and the K-12 community. All events are free and open to the public.

Rick Belluzzo, chief executive officer of Quantum and former president of Microsoft, will present the third Mervyn Young Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the CU-Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science, on Oct. 18. The 45-minute lecture, titled "Information Technology Industry: Time of Crisis or Opportunity?" is free and open to the public. The lecture will begin at 5 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. A reception will follow the presentation.

Gentlemanliness, scholarship, leadership and athleticism are being rewarded by a new Sigma Phi Epsilon scholarship open to all male freshmen at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The national Balanced Man Scholar Program was brought to life at CU-Boulder this fall, with awards totaling $1,750. Winners are rewarded for living by the principles Sigma Phi Epsilon espouses, but are not obligated to join the fraternity, according to chapter vice president of communications Jacob Vanderslice.

University of Colorado at Boulder Emeritus Professor Mark Meier, one of the world's leading glaciologists, has been named the winner of the Goldthwait Polar Medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to polar research. The Goldthwait Polar Medal, which will be presented to Meier at a ceremony in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 4, is the Byrd Polar Research Center's most prestigious award.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's annual fall break is on Oct. 10 and Oct. 11. All campus buildings will remain open during the break. The break was initiated in 2000 to give students a breather during what otherwise would be 12 weeks of continuous classes between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Student leaders from the University of Colorado Student Union originally proposed the fall break in 1998 as a way to split up the long stretch of full class weeks. Â鶹ÒùÔº were pleased in 1999 when the proposal was approved.

The education of CU-Boulder MBA students entails more than finance and marketing classes. At the Leeds School of Business, giving back to the community is part of the MBA student experience. On the morning of Oct. 4, about 40 MBA students will hold their fall semester community service event and help five organizations in Boulder. The organizations include the Collage Children's Museum, Community Food Share, the city of Boulder's Adopt-A-Park program, Flatirons Climbing Council and ReSource 2000.

To improve its connection with Colorado's growing investment community, the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business has appointed Michael Stutzer as finance professor and director of the school's Burridge Center for Securities Analysis and Valuation. "Colorado is becoming an emerging center for investments," said Steven Manaster, dean of the Leeds School. "Our goal is to more closely align our school with the region's securities industry. Michael's appointment will help that effort."

The University of Colorado at Boulder physics department will kick off a new monthly science program on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 2 p.m. in the JILA Auditorium. Senior Instructor Michael Dubson of the physics department will present "Big Telescopes, Spy Satellites and Video Astronomy" as the first lecture in the new program called Saturday Science Series. The monthly shows will present topics similar to the popular CU Wizards series, except that the new series is targeting Colorado high school students, teachers and adults with afternoon lectures.

Richard Rogers, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was a recipient of the 2002 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography. Rogers, along with coauthors Robert Hummer of the University of Texas at Austin and Charles Nam of Florida State University, wrote "Living and Dying in the USA: Behavioral, Health, and Social Differentials of Adult Mortality." The award was presented over the summer at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Chicago.

A search committee has been named to identify finalists for the position of dean of the School of Law at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Harold Bruff, the current dean, will complete his seventh year in that position in June. Bruff announced his resignation in August, citing his eagerness to resume teaching and writing and to spend more time with his family. He will remain at CU-Boulder as a law professor.