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A unique program featuring historians, authors, artists, poets, archaeologists and photographers will be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Feb. 26 to probe the meanings of Native American prehistory to different groups of Americans. Titled "Chaco, Mesa Verde and the Confrontation with Time," the panel discussion will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on campus. Co-sponsored by CU-BoulderÂ’s Center of the American West, the CU Museum and the National Park Service, the program is free and open to the public.

"Myths of Mitigation: A View of Ecological Restoration in California's Central Valley," a lecture by Sharon Collinge, CU-Boulder professor of environmental, population and organismic biology will be on Thursday, March 2, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 235.

A NASA-funded study to search for links between local climatic variation and the beginning of specific amphibian declines that have occurred in three areas of the world in the past several decades has turned up no significant correlation between the two.

Citing their belief that "the future of business in the ‘new economy’ is in entrepreneurship and e-commerce," Bob and Beverly Deming have backed up that sentiment with a $500,000 gift to endow an entrepreneurship professorship at CU-Boulder’s College of Business and Administration. The gift is in addition to the Deming’s gift two years ago of $3 million to the burgeoning Entrepreneurship Center, which now bears the Deming name.

ColoradoÂ’s smart growth initiatives and their impact on the real estate industry will be discussed at the 2000 CU Real Estate Council Annual Conference, "Dollars and Sense: Where Capital Markets Meet Smart Growth" on Friday, Feb. 25. The all-day event, hosted by the University of Colorado Real Estate Center and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Constance Clark, a University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral history student, received this year's national Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians. Clark was honored with the award for her essay, "Evolution for John Doe: Pictures, the Public, and the Scopes Trial Debate," which will be published in the Journal of American History.

The University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be the site of the 2000 Spring Boulder Campus Blood Drive. Open to the public, the blood drive will be held in the UMC west ballroom from Feb. 22 through Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. CU-Boulder staff, faculty and students interested in donating blood can sign up for appointments at the UMC loggia from Feb. 14 through Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by calling the Boulder Staff Council at (303) 492-5473 by noon on Feb. 21.

A rousing round of "Happy Birthday" will echo from Willard Hall room 334 on Friday, March 10, to mark the University of Colorado at Boulder Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource CenterÂ’s five-year anniversary. The center was born in 1995, three years after the passage of Amendment 2, a statewide anti-gay initiative. It was founded after a special task force felt a need to improve campus conditions for the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities.

Several free events will be offered during the University of Colorado at Boulder Spring Parents Weekend, Feb. 25-27, including presentations on jazz music, the challenges of the 21st century and off-campus housing. Parents and the general public are invited to attend. Last year's most popular session, "Finding Housing Off Campus," will be presented by Dale Severance, director of Off-Campus Student Services. Severance will discuss housing costs, landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities, and provide information on available housing services.

The next CU Wizards program will help students catch up on the physics of "Speed," on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 9:30 a.m. in the Duane Physics building, room G1B30, on the CU-Boulder campus. Eric Cornell, CU-Boulder physics professor and Fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, will measure "lots of different kinds of speeds" at the free, hour-long presentation, intended primarily for students in grades 5 through 9.