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The University of Colorado at Boulder has received $3.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help increase the number of women serving in administration positions in science, mathematics, engineering and technology programs at the university. CU-Boulder was one of eight universities to receive an NSF grant as part of the ADVANCE institutional transformation program. The awards, which will be distributed over five years, are part of an effort by the foundation to diversify the scientific work force.

Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will present the John R. Coen/Distinguished White Center Lecture on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom of the Fleming Law Building. The lecture, titled "Using Literature to Understand Social Institutions: A Critique of the Orwellian Vision," is sponsored by the University of Colorado's School of Law.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Friends of the Libraries is kicking off the 2001-2002 season of programs with a public lecture by Professor David M. Armstrong, of CU's environmental, population and organismic biology department, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8. Armstrong will speak on "What the Mice Know: Patterns in the Distribution of Colorado Mammals" in room M459 in Norlin Library. A reception will follow the talk.

Bill Coleman, co-founder, chairman, and chief strategy officer of BEA Systems, will be awarded the CU-Boulder Entrepreneur of the Year Award at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15. Coleman will give a public address that is free and open to the public with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. The speech will be presented at Macky Auditorium, 17th Street and University Avenue, on the Boulder campus.

Navajo star and constellation myths, including the story of the creation of stars, will be explored during a live astronomy show at Fiske Planetarium on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. John Stocke, a CU-Boulder professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences, will present "Navajo Skies" at Fiske Planetarium on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m.

Candice A. Bowen has been appointed to the position of director of the Office of Sexual Harassment Policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs. The appointment has been approved by CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny and is effective Nov. 1. Bowen replaces Andrea Goldblum, director of judicial affairs, who had held both positions for the past year and a half.

Shijie Zhong, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been awarded a prestigious $625,000 Packard Fellowship. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation cited Zhong and 23 other recipients as among the most promising young science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States. Other 2001 recipients included young faculty members from Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Stanford universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the universities of Chicago, California and Michigan.

Women business leaders from the venture capital, fitness and technology industries will speak to CU-Boulder students on Friday, Nov. 9, as part of the Committee of 200 annual seminar. The CU-Boulder Deming Center for Entrepreneurship and the Graduate Women in Business, both at the Leeds School of Business, will host this year's C200 Outreach Seminar, "Refining the Roadmap to Success." This seminar has rotated among the country's top business schools including Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and Wharton and attracts some of the country's leading women in business.

Investment banking will be the focus of the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business Investment Banking Forum, sponsored by Lehman Brothers, Inc., on Friday, Nov. 2. The keynote speaker is Barbara M. Bryne, managing director of Lehman Brothers' Global Technology Group. Byrne will address "The Ins and Outs of Investment Banking" from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Coors Events/Conference Center, room 4.

Seven new Daniels Scholars, of the 50 selected for 2001, have enrolled at the University of Colorado at Boulder for the fall semester, the highest number of all public institutions in the state. The announcement was made by Eric Doepel of the CU Foundation and Carrie Besnette of the Daniels Fund. According to Besnette, director of the Daniels College Prep and Scholarship Program, scholarship winners from Colorado receive support to attend any school in the country.