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A new employee program officially launched last fall at the University of Colorado at Boulder to support the Building Community initiative is seeking applicants for a new session of the program beginning in March. Boulder Campus Perspective, an intensive awareness-building program, was piloted last spring to encourage networking and increase staff awareness of CU-BoulderÂ’s governance and its role in the four-campus system.

The University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Environmental Studies Program is on its way to becoming one of the most popular majors on campus, with enrollment doubling to 600 students in the past five years.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is moving quickly on a "pre-development schedule" for Williams Village student housing development, according to Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration, who oversees the campus master planning process. Tabolt said a financial analysis and implementation plan are being prepared in conjunction with a market analysis to determine if a third-party developer could hasten the project to a fall 2003 completion date.

CU-Boulder Professors Patricia Nelson Limerick and Charles Wilkinson will celebrate the life of the late environmental writer T.H. Watkins in a special event on Monday, Jan. 29. Watkins, who died last year, will be honored with the 1999 Wallace Stegner Award from the CU-Boulder Center of the American West, which Limerick and Wilkinson co-founded. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 150 on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Warmer surface temperatures during summers can cause more ice on Antarctica ice shelves to melt into standing water ponds, then leak into cracks and increase the odds of collapse, according to a new study published by an American team of scientists. Led by Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder, the team focused on the Larsen Ice Sheet on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Larsen Ice Sheet experienced major retreats in 1995 and 1998, including more than 775 square miles that disintegrated during a January 1995 storm.

Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder will explore the dynamics of the solar system and the way it was shaped by millions of collisions in "Cosmic Collisions and Our Solar System," Friday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium.

Joseph Juhasz, professor of architecture and environmental design at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named president-elect of the population and environmental division of the American Psychological Association. Juhasz will begin serving a one-year term as president in August. The APA division, also known as Division 34, includes about 400 members studying the psychology of natural and constructed environments, as well as population psychology.

University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Patrick Allen will continue the ChancellorÂ’s Community Lecture Series on Wednesday, Jan. 17, with his presentation "Scientist Turns Activist: The Black Biomedical Research Movement."

The wonder of the cold, winter sky will be viewed from the comfort of the Fiske Planetarium on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder during "Boulder Skies," Friday, Jan. 12, and Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m. During the show visitors will see images of the night sky and will track the movement of planets through the night skies in January and beyond. Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for seniors and children and will go on sale at 7 p.m. the night of the show.

New evidence for the presence of liquid water at or near the Earth's surface 4.3 billion years ago has been discovered by a team of scientists, hinting that the environments for life may have emerged on Earth much earlier than previously thought. According to University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor Steven Mojzsis, lead author of the study, the new research pushes back evidence for water on or near EarthÂ’s surface by roughly 400 million years.