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A new energy conservation officer has been named to help reduce utility consumption at the University of Colorado at Boulder in a strategic move by Vice Chancellor Paul Tabolt to reduce energy demand and associated costs throughout campus. Moe Tabrizi, an industrial engineer and former senior manager in the high-tech industry, is charged with developing, evaluating and implementing utility conservation measures to reverse a trend of increased campus energy use in recent years. Tabrizi will report to Jeff Lipton, executive director of Facilities Management.

Editors Note: Photographers and reporters are welcome to attend a reception for the exhibit opening from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 4 in the planetarium lobby. The reception is not open to the public. Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder will unveil a new exhibit, "The Hubble Telescope: Images and Instruments," on Friday, Oct. 4.

Mary Fran Myers, co-director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been presented a newly established award from the Gender and Disaster Network that will hereafter be known as the "Mary Fran Myers Award." The award was presented this month in recognition of Myers' sustained efforts to launch the worldwide network among disaster professionals, for advancing women's careers and for promoting research on gender issues in disaster research in emergency management and higher education.

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center at CU-Boulder will celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Awareness Month in October with 53 events, the largest in the program's history. Events include speakers, a film festival, panels, discussions and exhibits. All CU-Boulder events are free and open to the public.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the event at no charge. Local business executives and other members of the community will roll dice, spin roulette wheels and play blackjack for a good cause on Friday, Sept. 27, as part of the 10th Annual Barney Ford Diversity Benefit and Casino Night to raise money for increasing diversity in the Leeds School of Business MBA program.

University of Colorado at Boulder Associate Professor Daniel Jurafsky has been named a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the "genius grant." Jurafsky, an associate professor of linguistics and computer science, is the sixth CU-Boulder faculty member to win the prestigious award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago. Jurafsky, 39, was one of 24 recipients of the 2002 "no-strings attached" funding. He will receive $500,000.

Patricia Nelson Limerick, the nationally renowned history and environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, spoke at a White House symposium organized by First Lady Laura Bush on "Women of the West: The Literary Legacy of Women in the American West." Limerick presented the Sept. 17 keynote address on three authors: Willa Cather, Edna Ferber and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her audience of about 150 people in the White House included First Lady Laura Bush, Lynne Cheney, Joyce Rumsfeld and Pam Houston, author of "Cowboys Are My Weakness."

The first University of Colorado at Boulder Leadership Conference for CU-Boulder students will be held Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center. It is free and open to all students. The conference is organized by Student Renaissance Leadership and will be organized according to the following topics: diversity and women in leadership, leadership in community, personal leadership and global leadership.

A group of students from the University of Colorado at Boulder has designed a unique concept to observe dust grains in space that they hope to fly on NASA's mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, a collection of ancient, icy objects located beyond Neptune.

Census information confirming a robust fall 2002 enrollment at the University of Colorado at Boulder offers positive news for campus efforts to improve retention and the numbers of graduate, international and transfer students. Nevertheless, CU-Boulder officials hope to limit future overall growth through a proposal called "Quality for Colorado," now under consideration by the state, which would reduce the campus's budgetary dependence on enrollment growth.