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Editors: The Diversity Seminars are not open to the public or the press but coordinators are happy to discuss the program with reporters. Â鶹ÒùÔº, staff and faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder are invited to attend the 12th annual Diversity Awareness Seminar, sponsored by the Multicultural Development Team. The seminar offers an experiential educational opportunity to examine diversity and multiculturalism. Sessions will be held Mondays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 305, on Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28 and March 6 and March 13.

Differences in the way animals move and the forms of their movement will be among the topics explored in the Jan. 29 CU Wizards show "Biology of Muscles in Motion." University of Colorado at Boulder biology Professors Todd Gleeson and Mark Osadjan will use people and animals to show how muscles work in the show, which begins at 9:30 a.m. in CU-Boulder's Duane Physics building, room G1B30.

Three faculty members at the University of Colorado at Boulder were named Distinguished Professors Thursday, Jan. 20, by the CU Board of Regents.

Career Services and the CU Heritage Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder are partnering with metro-area professionals to sponsor a series of presentations that will help prepare students for the work environment. The series, "Workplace Readiness Spring 2000," will meet seven times throughout the spring semester. The first session, "Distinguished Alumni Look Back at their Smartest Mistakes," will be held Wednesday, Jan. 26, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the Boulder Campus.

The Minority Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder is expanding to include students pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences. Eleven students recently were selected as the first scholars in the humanities component of the program. All of them are from Colorado and are currently enrolled as freshmen or sophomores at CU-Boulder. Until now the MASP program has enrolled only students majoring in the sciences and mathematics.

"Defending the Range: Farrington R. Carpenter and Public Land Grazing Policy in the 1930s," a lecture by history doctoral student Julia Hobson on Feb. 3, 3:30 p.m., University Memorial Center room 235 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Robert Schulzinger, professor of history and director of the international affairs program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been elected president of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations for 2000. SHAFR is an international organization with approximately 1,800 members. It is the principal scholarly society for the study of international history. Schulzinger will deliver the presidential address at SHAFR's annual meeting in Toronto in June.

MEDIA ADVISORY The University of Colorado at Boulder Student Union will host an open forum on student fees Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 4 p.m. in the Alferd Packer Grill in the University Memorial Center. The goal of the forum is to provide information and discussion of student fee issues in light of an impending U.S. Supreme Court case that could change the current mandatory fee system.

MEDIA ADVISORY Ozone and Antarctica WHO: University of Colorado at Boulder Science Discovery Program, 1999-2000 Science Explorers.

As a first-generation student of Mexican descent from a single-parent family, Steven Medina could have been identified as an at-risk student and one who shouldnÂ’t have succeeded at the University of Colorado at Boulder. But because of his desire to make a difference in the lives of others, Medina now holds two degrees and a new position as counselor in CU-BoulderÂ’s Counseling and Psychological Services: A Multicultural Center.