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University of Colorado at Boulder alumnus Jim Voss is slated to make his fourth journey into the heavens April 24 when NASA's space shuttle Atlantis blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Fla. Slated for launch at approximately 2:15 p.m. MST, the shuttle -- carrying a seven-person crew -- is set to dock with the International Space Station and unload more than 2,000 pounds of cargo. The crew also will perform maintenance tasks onboard to ensure the space station remains in good condition as its orbital assembly continues later this year.

CU-Boulder students majoring in the arts, humanities, engineering, education or music can gain business skills through a noncredit academic program offered during the Maymester, which runs from May 15 through June 2. CUBIC, the CU Business Intensive Certificate, is a noncredit business education program for University of Colorado at Boulder junior and senior non-business majors.

About 700 middle and high school students from throughout the state will gather at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Saturday, April 29, to compete in the 19th annual Colorado History Day. Among the dignitaries presenting awards to the students for their winning dramatic performances, video documentaries, exhibits and other entries will be U.S. Representatives Tom Tancredo and Mark Udall. Colorado History Day will run from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. in several campus locations, primarily in the University Memorial Center and the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building.

So you thought engineers couldnÂ’t communicate? Colorado Engineer Magazine, a publication by CU-Boulder engineering students since 1904, continued a long tradition of excellence, winning six awards, including three first-place awards, at the national 2000 Engineering College Magazines Associated annual conference. The conference was held April 6-8 in Berkeley, Calif.

Be sure to bring an extra pair of clean underwear to the April 29 CU Wizards show because CU-Boulder chemistry professors Tarek Sammakia and Gordon Yee may be asking to use them in one of their demonstrations. The Wizards will be burning underwear, firing potatoes from cannons, igniting hydrogen soap bubbles and much more to demonstrate mechanical, heat and light energy release at the show titled, "Fireflies, M&M's and a Few Gratuitous Explosions."

The University of Colorado at Boulder is the first university in the nation experimenting with an innovative campus program offering students who get in trouble a chance to fess up and face the consequences of their acts to avoid going through the usual university judicial system. Formed using principles of Restorative Justice, an increasingly popular method used as an alternative to judicial processes, CU-BoulderÂ’s program centers around "group conferences," which bring offenders together with those they have harmed.

Editors: Paul, a CU-Boulder student, is available to talk about his experience with the universityÂ’s restorative justice program, on the condition that his last name be omitted. The evening started out with a few friends hanging out in a residence hall room. Later that night, however, after a disagreement with some other students left a couple of windows broken, one of the friends ended up in jail.

A University of Colorado at Boulder program that teaches literacy and leadership to seventh and eighth grade Denver students through the use of poetry, called CU in the House, will hold two events on the Boulder campus April 18 and April 21. On April 18, nationally recognized poet and educator Haki Madhubuti will lecture on "Education and the Poetic Spirit" from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., chairman emeritus of Bechtel Group Inc., was honored as an Engineer of Distinction by the University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s College of Engineering and Applied Science at the 35th annual Engineering Awards Banquet on April 14. The award, established in 1997 and presented by Ross B. Corotis, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, recognizes his lifetime achievements in the engineering profession.

CU-Boulder undergraduates in the fields of psychology, biology and kinesiology will present research findings on Wednesday, April 26, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom. Refreshments will be provided at the fifth annual Undergraduate Research Day, which is free and open to the public.