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Three national media experts will visit the School of Journalism and Mass Communication March 4-15 as Hearst Professionals-in-Residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Friends of the University of Colorado Libraries will present a program titled "Nick Perito: Behind the Scenes with Perry Como" on Thursday, March 14. The event is free and open to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Theatre of the Imig Music Building on the CU-Boulder campus. It will celebrate Como's gift of memorabilia to the American Music Research Center in CU-Boulder's College of Music. Perito of Los Angeles, longtime musical director-arranger-conductor for Como, will discuss his professional experiences with Como and provide musical selections.

David Hawkins, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the official historian of the Manhattan Project, died Sunday at the age of 88. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 2, in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. "A giant hole has been created in all of our lives by his passing," said James Scarritt, CU-Boulder political science professor.

Editors: Â鶹ÒùÔº are signing up for University Village apartments today through 5 p.m. at the University Club, Garden Room, near the corner of Broadway and Euclid Avenue at 972 Broadway. Additional housing for students at the University of Colorado at Boulder is now available and more units are scheduled to be completed in the next two years, resulting in 1,379 new beds, according to Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs.

Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences accurately forecasted two earthquakes greater than magnitude 5.1 while a paper describing the forecasting method was still in press.

Statistically significant differences among salaries of male, female and minority faculty members have disappeared at the University of Colorado at Boulder following five years of annual studies of salary inequity, according to Bill Kaempfer, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. Kaempfer also is a CU-Boulder economics professor. He has undertaken studies of the problem in each of the last five years.

Deirdre McCloskey, a well-known economist once known as Donald, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday, March 8, at 3:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 1B50. McCloskey, who is a professor of economics, English and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss capitalism, globalization and the middle class during her lecture "Bourgeois Virtue and Globalization." She will be on campus March 7-8 as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum. The event is free and open to the public.

Enrollment in a University of Colorado at Boulder Islamic studies course has doubled, and the religion expert who teaches the class is preparing for even larger classes in future semesters. The combined upper-division and graduate course "Islam in the Modern World" has 31 students enrolled for the spring 2002 semester - twice as many as normal, according to Professor Fred Denny, chair of the CU-Boulder religious studies department and instructor of the class.

The opening of a 51,000-square-foot addition to the University of Colorado at Boulder's University Memorial Center will be celebrated at a March 7 ceremony featuring live music and food. At 10 a.m., university officials will be joined by an ROTC color guard for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the unveiling of the north entrance to the addition, located just southwest of the Dalton Trumbo Fountain.

A $5 million gift from Tom and Cydney Marsico to establish two Marsico Endowed Chairs of Excellence at the University of Colorado was announced Friday evening, Feb. 22, in Denver before a gathering of campaign donors and volunteers. The event was hosted by the University of Colorado Foundation. In a pre-recorded announcement, Marsico recounted his excitement at hearing the news that two CU physicists, Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman, had won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Cornell and Wieman will be the first honorees to hold the Marsico Endowed Chairs in Excellence.