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Professor Patty Jo Watson, an internationally known archaeologist from Washington University in St. Louis, will give a free public lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Feb. 25. Watson will present the 2000 Distinguished Archaeology lecture titled "Cave Archaeology in North America." Sponsored by the CU-Boulder anthropology department and funded by a department alumnus, the talk will be held at 8 p.m. in room 270 of the Hale Science Building.

The president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Robert Weisbuch, will deliver a lecture, "Unleashing the Humanities: The Liberal Arts Take Over America," on Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host the Second Annual WomenÂ’s Health Roundtable, "Building Community by Helping Ourselves and Each Other," on Monday, Feb. 28, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center. The event is free and open to the public. The Roundtable will provide men and women with important information and encourage discussion on critical health issues that may affect them and their mothers, sisters, partners and friends.

Two assistant professors of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dan Dessau and Anton Andreev, have each won prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation. Dessau will receive $360,000 over the next four years and Andreev will receive $200,000. The awards are given to exceptionally promising junior faculty at U.S. colleges and universities who are committed to the integration of research and education. In 1999, the NSF granted about 350 of the highly competitive awards.

Editors: A complete summit agenda is attached. The University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Fifth Annual Campus Diversity Summit, "Integrating Diversity, Scholarship and Action," will be held Feb. 22-23 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the University Memorial Center. The summit will use campus expertise to apply diversity scholarship in all areas of the university and will include roundtable discussions with authors of diversity and equity publications, panel discussions and presentations.

An astronaut, a congressman and several students will participate in a Feb. 12 program on campus that will include talks on a recent space shuttle mission, the future of space exploration and an upcoming CU-Boulder student satellite mission. The program will feature veteran astronaut Mark Lee who has flown on four NASA shuttle missions, Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Space Subcommittee, and several CU undergraduates involved in the design and construction of the Citizen Explorer Satellite.

For the eighth year in a row, the University of Colorado at Boulder ranked second in the nation for the number of graduates serving overseas as Peace Corps volunteers. The Peace Corps' annual list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities named the University of Wisconsin at Madison first with 117 graduates currently serving, followed by CU-Boulder with 91 volunteers. The University of Michigan, the site of President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech proposing the Peace Corps, came in third with 78 volunteers.

Professor Jennifer Wolch of the University of Southern California will be in Boulder to speak on "Race, Place, and Attitudes Toward Animals," on Feb. 11 at 4 p.m. in Guggenheim Geography, Room 205. Wolch, invited by CU-BoulderÂ’s geography department, is a professor of geography at USC and has been teaching and writing about how people and animals interact since the 1980s.

Sightings of a man with a vacuum strapped to his back riding a bicycle around the University of Colorado at Boulder campus will not turn up a "ghostbuster," but rather a "roachbuster." Scott Harvey, who works in CU-BoulderÂ’s Facilities Management department, is the campus pest management technician. But he also is known as the campus "bugbuster," "roachman" and "antman." Harvey, who has been hunting roaches and other pests for more than 10 years, uses a technique called Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, to combat the universityÂ’s unwelcome guests.

The CU-Boulder Corporate Excellence Awards, sponsored by the MBA program, will honor local businesses for their contributions to the community on Feb. 10. Companies to be recognized include Gold Systems Inc., Global Solar Energy, the Boulder Public Works DepartmentÂ’s Utilities Division, U S West and Rhythms NetConnections Inc.