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More than 80 student inventions ranging from new games and consumer products to devices designed to assist people with disabilities will be demonstrated at the ITLL Spring Design Expo at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Saturday, April 24.

The CU-Boulder Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business has appointed business leaders Tom Daniel and Robert Kaufman to its advisory board. Daniel is the CEO and founder of CadWest Partners LLC, a registered broker dealer. He also is president and developer of CTEK Angels, the largest group of angel investors in the Rocky Mountain region. Kaufman is a partner with Q Advisors and previously was president and CEO of netLibrary, a content and technology provider to institutional libraries and corporations.

Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, will present "News Media in the 21st Century: Are Journalists Becoming Irrelevant?" at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, April 26. The Crosman Memorial Lecture will be held at 5 p.m. in the Norlin Library British Studies Room, with a reception to follow. The event is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.

About 120 outstanding University of Colorado at Boulder students will be welcomed into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's largest and oldest academic honor society, at a special April 25 public ceremony to celebrate the CU-Boulder chapter's 100th birthday. CU-Boulder Honors Program Director Dennis Van Gerven will offer comments at the 5 p.m. event in the Glenn Miller Ballroom inside the University Memorial Center. After the ceremony, a reception is scheduled at about 6 p.m. The event is free of charge.

Uriel Nauenberg, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been selected to receive the university's highest recognition for teaching and research, the Hazel Barnes Prize, for his work in high-energy physics. The prize includes an engraved University Medal and a cash award of $20,000, the largest single faculty award funded by the university. He will be recognized during spring commencement exercises on May 7.

Rocket launches and sunspot viewing are among the highlights of Astronomy Day, a family-oriented celebration being held on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Saturday, April 24. Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory will offer activities from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the planetarium and observatory. All activities are free and open to the public.

Three University of Colorado at Boulder professors have been awarded Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for 2004 and another has received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. The Guggenheim recipients are among 185 fellows selected from more than 3,200 applicants. The scholars, scientists and artists will receive awards totaling $6.9 million from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in its 80th annual competition.

A dozen distinguished guest faculty members from all over the world will teach a series of unique summer courses starting in May at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Astronaut James Voss, CNN senior editor James Schiffman and Brown University professor-at-large and MacArthur fellow Shirley Brice Heath are among the guest instructors, in addition to professors from the universities of Vienna, Austria, and Montesquieu-Bordeaux, France. They are scheduled to teach classes as part of the CU-Boulder First Faculty in Residence Summer Term beginning May 10.

Engineering faculty, staff and students at the University of Colorado at Boulder have been scribbling sonnets and dabbling in Italian opera this semester as part of an initiative by the Herbst Humanities Program to engage engineers in the arts.

"Public Memory," a documentary film about how and why people create memorials following tragic events, will be shown at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, April 19. The film, to be shown at 7 p.m. in Hellems Arts and Sciences Building room 252, includes an interview with Professor Ken Foote, chair of CU-Boulder's geography department and author of the book "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy." The event is free and open to the public.