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The Sommers-Bausch Observatory at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be open to the public, weather permitting, from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 20, to view the centuryÂ’s first total eclipse of the moon. The lunar eclipse begins when the full moon enters the EarthÂ’s shadow at 8:05 p.m. and will be totally eclipsed by 9:09 p.m. The total eclipse will last until 10:22 p.m., but at 9:48 p.m. it will be deepest into EarthÂ’s shadow and will be about one ten-thousandth as bright as it was earlier in the evening.

The Y2K command center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reported no problems as of 11 a.m. Saturday. "We're very happy to report that all systems are functioning as usual," said CU-Boulder spokeswoman Bobbi Barrow. "No glitches were reported from any corner of the campus." "CU football players aren't the only ones who are celebrating today," she said.

All Systems Reported OK, Functioning In CU-Boulder's Initial Y2K Inventory The University of Colorado at Boulder passed the Y2K rollover without a whimper this morning, CU officials reported at about 12:30 a.m. "So far as we know at this time, all major systems appear to be normal and functioning as they should be," said Tom Carney, emergency management coordinator for CU-Boulder.

Key Y2K Contacts University Of Colorado At Boulder Tom Carney Emergency Management Coordinator, 303-492-5162 303-441-3851/0891 (pager), 303-550-4719 (cell) Jim Fadenrecht Chief, CU Police, 303-492-6666 (after 5 p.m.) John Kish Lieutenant, CU Police, 303-492-2303, 492-6666 (after 5 p.m.) Emergency Operations Center CU Police, 303-492-5586, 492-2286, 492-2971 Deborah Keyek Franssen CU-Boulder Y2K coordinator, 303-492-2403, 303-356-0133 (cell) John Bruning Director, Facilities Management, 303-492-4229

Bill Weber, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and curator emeritus of the CU Museum, was honored with the prestigious Edgar H. Wherry Award of the North American Rock Garden Society. The award was established in 1973 after a Philadelphia scientist who published books on ferns and Phlox, a favorite group of rock garden plants. The award recognizes "a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the dissemination of botanical or horticultural information about native North American plants."

FACT SHEET: Y2K PREPARATION UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER Key CU-Boulder Y2K contacts: Tom Carney Emergency Management Coordinator, 303-492-5162 303-441-3851/0891 (pager), 303-550-4719 (cell) Jim Fadenrecht Chief, CU Police, 303-492-6666 (after 5 p.m.) John Kish Lieutenant, CU Police, 303-492-2303, 492-6666 (after 5 p.m.) Emergency Operations Center CU Police, 303-492-5586, 492-2286, 492-2971 Deborah Keyek Franssen CU-Boulder Y2K coordinator, 303-492-2403, 303-356-0133 (cell)

Area citizens are invited by the Friends of the Libraries to the University of Colorado at Boulder Norlin Library on Wednesday, Jan. 5, for a day of instruction on how to use the CU libraries. The event, called Senior Day, will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Center for British Studies room in Norlin Library, room M-549.

Two Colorado avalanches in December that apparently claimed the lives of two Boulder County men are a somber reminder of the risks that hikers, skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers face in the Colorado mountains each winter. CU-Boulder student Justin Colonna is presumed to have been killed in a Dec. 18 avalanche on South Arapaho Peak west of Boulder. Broomfield resident Michael Barrett was killed on Quandary Peak near Breckenridge Dec. 21.

The creation of a new quantum gas at JILA, a laboratory run by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been named one of the top 10 scientific advances of 1999 by the editors of the prestigious journal Science. The experiment was conducted by Deborah Jin, a NIST physicist and adjoint assistant professor of physics at CU-Boulder, and graduate student Brain DeMarco.

Time of CU Wizards Dec. 31 Program A Dec. 16 news release on the next CU Wizards presentation titled "BOOM! The Physics of Sound and Air Pressure," incorrectly stated the show would begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 31. The presentation, which features physics Professor Michael Dubson, will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 31 in room G1B30 of CU-BoulderÂ’s Duane Physics building. CU News Services regrets the error and any inconvenience it may have created.