Â鶹ÒùÔº

When city slickers dress up in cowboy boots and Wranglers to attend the National Western Stock Show, they often view livestock as pet-like animals. Many have a hard time thinking of the animals as the source of the steak dinner or hamburger they eat. Lisa Peñaloza, associate professor of marketing at CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business, explains how cultural meanings and values are created by the juxtaposition of ranchers and non-ranchers in her paper, "Consuming the American West: Animating Cultural Meaning and Memory at a Stock Show and Rodeo."

Robert T. Craig, professor and chair of the communication department at CU-Boulder, has been named president-elect of the International Communication Association. The ICA is a 51-year-old organization of more than 3,200 communication scholars and practitioners from some 60 countries. It promotes the systematic study of communication theories, processes and skills.

"I have a dream today that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.' "

CU-Boulder's student-run Honor Code will be in effect for the spring 2002 semester in those schools and colleges within the university that have ratified the code. The Leeds School of Business and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication approved the code earlier last fall. According to Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs, the School of Education voted in favor of the plan on Dec. 5. The College of Engineering and Applied Science also endorsed the code in early December.

After a temporary closure during the past year, the Indian Law Clinic of the University of Colorado School of Law will reopen on Jan. 14. Newly appointed faculty member, Judge Jill E. Tompkins, will serve as the clinic's director. Tompkins replaces former director, Jerilyn DeCoteau, who stepped down early last year to become legal counsel to the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Indians in North Dakota. Tompkins will teach the American Indian Law Clinic Seminar course and supervise the Clinic's student attorneys.

The University of Colorado School of Law and the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program will host a symposium Jan. 27-28 to inaugurate the school's new Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law. The symposium, titled "The Regulation of Information Platforms," will meet in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom of the Fleming Law Building on campus.

Editors: Please note two other PECASE Awards were received by CU/NOAA researchers, described in an accompanying release. University of Colorado at Boulder engineering professors Kenneth Gall and Jorge G. Zornberg have been selected as recipients of the prestigious 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Editors: Please note two other PECASE Awards were received by CU engineering faculty, described in an accompanying release. Boulder researchers Steven S. Brown and Thomas M. Hamill have been named winners of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Both scientists are research associates at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and both work at NOAA's David Skaggs Research Center. CIRES is a joint institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Although Wall Street has faced hard times in recent months, CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business students are investing -- and coming out ahead. During the fall 2001 semester, on an original investment of $180,000, they showed earnings of almost $30,000 or a return of 15.23 percent. As part of the Leeds School's Seminar in Investment Management class, finance students have access to the Rollé Student Investment Fund to gain real-world experience making investments and apply financial knowledge gained at the school.

CEOs and founders of Noodles & Co., eBags, Target Corp. and other leading companies will discuss lessons learned from their successful business careers with CU-Boulder students in lectures throughout the spring semester. The Fortune 500 executives and entrepreneurs will speak during class lectures of the Profiles in American Enterprise course beginning Jan. 22 and running though April 30.