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The Sommers-Bausch Observatory at the University of Colorado at Boulder is hosting an open house — weather permitting — to view a very rare planetary phenomenon on Monday, Nov. 15, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Using a heliostat — a specialized solar telescope that transfers the sun’s light via a series of mirrors and lenses and projects it on a flat surface for safe viewing — people will see Mercury’s silhouette gliding along the upper edge of the sun as it passes between Earth and the sun.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Career Services office announced this week that it is offering employers the opportunity to list their internships directly on line. The advantages to employers are convenience and control. The process allows employers to go to the Web site anytime to list their internships for CU-Boulder students. The employers gain control by knowing exactly what language the students will see regarding their announcements, as well as the power to update, change or deactivate the internships at any time.

Using examples from some of the most stressful events that any human could encounter -- trying to fly an uncontrollable airliner, commanding a ship that just hit a mine -- psychology Professor Emeritus Kenneth Hammond of the University of Colorado at Boulder has drawn some conclusions about how to make good judgments under the most difficult circumstances. In "Judgments Under Stress," to be published by Oxford University Press on Nov. 12, Hammond examines the entire field to date and presents some new findings.

Yellowstone National ParkÂ’s bears, bison, wolves and water will be the topic of a lecture and slide show at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, Nov. 8. Mike Clark, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, will present "Yellowstone National Park at the Millennium: News from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem," at 7 p.m. in Old Main Chapel.

CU-Boulder history Professor Patricia Limerick will continue the fall ChancellorÂ’s Community Lecture Series on Wednesday, Nov. 10, with a lecture on "Worlds of Possibility: Exploring Ethnicity in Environmental Thought." Limerick, also co-founder of the Center of the American West, will explore the story of relationships to nature held by people who were the intellectual kin of the Thoreau-to-Abbey philosophers. She will question how a recognition of ethnic diversity can enrich and redeem environmental movements.

The potential for a large earthquake along the New Madrid seismic zone in the central Mississippi Valley should be considered a serious threat, according to a new study spearheaded by a University of Colorado at Boulder professor.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Career Services department will host its annual statewide minority career conference on Thursday, Nov. 11, in the main gym of the Student Recreation Center. More than 50 employers, including Level 3 Communications, IBM, Charles Schwab & Co., Lucent Technologies, Anderson Consulting and Norwest Bank, will be looking for full- and part-time employees and interns.

Colorado high school seniors applying to the University of Colorado at Boulder for fall 2000 can display their writing skills by entering the annual University Writing Program essay contest. Interested students should submit two essays — their best analytical or argumentative essay written in high school, and a personal narrative of two to three pages that is inspired by the first paper — by Jan. 18, 2000, according to Deborah Viles, the contest’s co-director.

Evidence of the worldÂ’s earliest known astronomical site will be the topic of a live astronomy show at the Fiske Planetarium next week. J. McKim Malville, an astronomy professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will present, "First Light and Old Stones: Astronomy Among the Megaliths of Southern Egypt," Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

A new University of Colorado at Boulder technology that uses an acoustical device similar to a medical ultrasound probe is providing a promising new technique to inspect the fouling of thin membranes used to purify drinking water. The membranes have pores so small they can let water molecules pass through while excluding unwanted molecules and particulates such as salts, viruses and bacteria, said chemical engineering Professor William Krantz. The technique involves bouncing acoustic waves from the surface of a porous membrane, he said.