Â鶹ÒùÔº

An entrepreneur whose company specializes in a safe and environmentally friendly supply of renewable hydrogen energy will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Business on Monday, March 5. G. Chris Andersen, chairman of Millennium Cell Inc. of Eatontown, N.J., will talk on "Digits, Energy, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen and the New Economy" from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in room 224 of the College of Business. The presentation is open to the public.

"Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes," a book co-authored by University of Colorado at Boulder Associate Law Professor Scott Peppet, has been honored with the 2000 Award for Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution by the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. The book, which Peppet wrote with Robert Mnookin and Andrew S. Tulumello, legal scholars from the Harvard Negotiation Research Project, promotes an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving in negotiation known as alternative dispute resolution or ADR.

An environmentally friendly rock climbing anchor that was designed by CU-Boulder engineering students will be on display at the Smithsonian Institution March 7, as part of an exhibit of top inventions by students from around the nation.

A professor in the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Business has been awarded two grants to fund her ongoing research on culture in the marketplace. Lisa N. Peñaloza, an associate professor of marketing, has won a total of $25,000 from the Marketing Science Institute.

Hiroshi Motomura, the Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law at CU-Boulder, will give the 26th annual Austin W. Scott Jr. lecture March 12 at 4 p.m. in the Fleming Law Building. Titled, "Terms of Belonging: Immigration and the Meaning of U.S. Citizenship," the lecture is free and open to the public. Professor Motomura will discuss his book in progress on immigration and citizenship. According to Motomura, "The idea of America as a 'nation of immigrants' reflects different -- and sometimes conflicting -- views of what it means to come to this country."

Newsweek correspondent and local author Daniel Glick will speak and sign his new book "Powder Burn" at the University of Colorado at Boulder on March 12 at 7 p.m. in Old Main Chapel.

Faculty and student researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder have built a microfan, as small as a grain of sand, that could one day be used to cool the transistors on a computer chip or perform other functions in micro machines.

A team of CU-Boulder undergraduate business students will travel to Chicago this week to compete in a national consulting competition. The Arthur Andersen Business Consulting Challenge gives students hands-on experience with the issues faced in consulting, including problem solving, developing innovative solutions, understanding frameworks and presenting findings.

Twenty-five new students from Colorado, seven other states and England have been selected to join the Undergraduate Academy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Undergraduate Academy was created by the university for 200 exceptionally talented and intellectually lively students and started operation last fall.

James Hynes, professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, an honor bestowed annually to only a select few members of the organization. Only half of 1 percent of all APS members are elected to fellowship status each year. "I was pleased to have our research recognized through election to this very select and high-quality group," Hynes said.