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CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business Associate Professor Tom Dean has been elected chair of the entrepreneurship division at the Academy of Management. The Academy of Management is the world's premier organization of management academics and is dedicated to spreading knowledge about management and organizations. Membership in the academy is comprised of scholars from colleges, universities and research institutions as well as practitioners from business, government and not-for-profit organizations. It has 12,000 members in 77 countries.

The myths, astronomical phenomena and constellations of the sky in the Southern Hemisphere will be explored in the live astronomy show "Southern Skies" at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Feb. 8, and Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m.

Dennis Stanford, chair of the anthropology department at the Smithsonian Institution, will speak on his controversial suggestion that the "Solutrean Culture" from Europe may well have been among the original colonizers of the Americas. Sponsored by the CU-Boulder anthropology department and funded by a department alumnus, the Ninth Annual Distinguished Archaeology Lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, in room 270 of the Hale Science building. The free public event will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, announced his resignation to journalism faculty members this week. In a letter to faculty dated Jan. 23, Brinkman cited health and family considerations as the reasons for his resignation.

Science Explorers, an outreach program affiliated with CU-Boulder's Science Discovery Program, is offering a workshop Feb. 1 at the Colorado State Fairgrounds called "Water: From Ice Caps to Water Taps." The workshop is one of several being offered by the Science Discovery Program to help promote learning among teachers as well as students. Sponsored by the South Central Board of Cooperative Educational Services and the CU President's Office, the workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is open to students and teachers from Pueblo Area schools.

Applications for freshman admission to the University of Colorado at Boulder for fall 2002 are running 15 percent above the same point last year, following two years of record increases. Almost 13,000 applications have been received to date, and the final total is expected to reach about 20,000. Less than one month remains before the Feb. 15 deadline. In considering applications for admission, full and equal consideration is given to completed applications with all required credentials that are postmarked by Feb. 15.

University of Colorado at Boulder space physicist Daniel Baker will give a talk on Monday, Jan. 28, about the mysteries of the tiny planet Mercury and his involvement in NASA's upcoming mission there. Baker, who is director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, or LASP, will speak from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the JILA auditorium, located on the lower level of the JILA tower in the CU-Boulder Duane Physics building. The talk is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Euclid Avenue Autopark and along Colorado Avenue, near Folsom Street.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has contracted with Earl McLaughlin, president of Boulder Tomorrow, to work as a community relations consultant on a special project designed to study university/community dialogue on issues of mutual concern. McLaughlin will serve as an arm of the Community Advisory Committee on a six-month assignment. He is charged with helping the campus gather information about community concerns, issues and perceptions and assessing the flow of information to citizens about university activities.

CU-Boulder students are invited to participate in an organ and tissue donor registry drive at the University Memorial Center Jan. 28-31. Â鶹ÒùÔº will have the opportunity to learn more about organ and tissue donation and test their knowledge in order to win a RIDE snowboard. Donor Alliance Inc., a federally designated organ procurement organization serving Colorado and Wyoming, will sponsor the organ and tissue donor registry drive, which is the first drive held at CU-Boulder.

CU-Boulder's Peer Mentor Program for International Â鶹ÒùÔº is a student-based volunteer group of more than 30 that helps new international students become more familiar with the CU-Boulder campus. The idea of a "buddy program" for new students originated in 1995 and led to a grant from the Cooperative Grants Program of the Association of International Educators for the Peer Mentor Program for International Â鶹ÒùÔº.