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While many University of Colorado at Boulder students will enjoy vacation time this summer, five members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity will pedal 3,500 miles to raise money and awareness for people with disabilities. CU juniors Mike Krieves, Ryan Fligg and Chris Chrisman, and seniors Ty Hampton and Will Acosta-Trejo will join 65 other Pi Kappa Phi members from across the country for PUSH America's 13th annual Journey of Hope ride. PUSH America was started by the national chapter of Pi Kappa Phi in 1977 to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Bose-Einstein condensates can sometimes explode like a pocket-sized supernova, but when they"re not doing that they can look like the inside of a cigar bar, awash in insubstantial smoke rings. These two disparate images of one of modern physics' most mysterious creations come out of recent research efforts at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology in cooperation with the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A screening of "Scout's Honor," a film that tells the story of a 12-year-old scout who launched a nationwide challenge to anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America, is set for March 21 at 7 p.m. at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The film recently won two top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. The screening will be in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 150.

Many college graduates entering the job market this spring will still find the employer welcome mat extended, especially those with high-tech degrees or teaching certificates. According to experts at the University of Colorado at Boulder, more employers currently are seeking graduates with high-tech degrees or teaching certificates than there are graduates to fill the jobs.

Please Note: The Peace Corps produced this release and provided it to CU for local distribution. A comment by CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny has been included. Washington, D.C., March 9, 2001-Peace Corps Acting Director Charles Baquet, III, today released the Peace Corps' annual list of the colleges and universities with the largest number of Peace Corps volunteers currently serving overseas.

Thomas A. Tweed, professor of religious studies and associate dean for undergraduate curricula at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the guest lecturer for the 2001 Annual Robert C. Lester Lecture on the Study of Religion at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Tweed will present "On Moving Across: Diaspora, Religion and the Interpreter's Position" on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities, room 250. A reception will immediately follow the lecture and both are free and open to the public.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the public forum on Wednesday, March 14, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger Auditorium on the CU-Boulder campus. Charles Clements, a physician whose experiences in war torn El Salvador were made into an Academy Award-winning documentary in 1985, will be on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum program March 13 through March 15.

The myths, astronomical phenomena and constellations of the sky in the Southern Hemisphere will be explored in a live astronomy show at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, March 16, and Tuesday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. Deidre Brucker, a CU-Boulder senior majoring in computer science, and Sanlyn Buxner, a recent CU graduate who now works at Fiske Planetarium, will present "Southern Skies." "Most people in the Northern Hemisphere never get the chance to witness the splendor of the southern sky," Brucker said.

A team of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder has taken its expertise on the road again to Denver area schools in an effort to help spark interest in the sciences. Dubbed the "Science Squad," the five CU-Boulder participants lead hands-on science activities with K-12 students, help teachers set up laboratories and workshops and serve as mentors to the students.

As of March 7, 40 teams have signed up for the return of CU's Trivia Bowl, the largest number of early entries in the 25-year history of the bowl. "In previous years we would get perhaps 15 early applications," said JC Ancell, associate director of the University Memorial Center and senior advisor to the University of Colorado Student Union's Program Council.