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Three library buildings at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder are now equipped with "Team Technology Rooms" where students can use electronic equipment and computer software to prepare class presentations and projects. The CU-Boulder Libraries teamed up with Information Technology Services on campus to convert nine group study rooms in Norlin Library, the William M. White Business Library and the L.H. Gemill Engineering Library into Team Technology Rooms.

Scientists have detected changes in the rotation rates of violent, charged gases some 130,000 miles beneath the sunÂ’s surface, a finding that may help them better understand the physical dynamics of the 11-year solar cycle that affects Earth.

Six graduate programs at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder were cited for excellence in a limited number of disciplines ranked by U.S. News and World Report magazine in March 2000. In specialty programs, CUÂ’s Program of Environmental Law was ranked in a tie for 5th place with Tulane University, up from 7th in 1999. Overall, CUÂ’s Law School was ranked 45th in the nation out of 179 law schools, the same as its 1999 ranking by U.S. News and World Report.

The babyÖ±²¥app Shakespeare Festival's Living Shakespeare outreach program will visit Boulder's East Senior Center, 5660 Sioux Dr., to present a four-session class previewing the shows of the upcoming 2000 CSF season.

Editors: A complete schedule of the conference is attached. The Center for Asian Studies at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder is hosting a conference April 7-8 focusing on human rights issues in Asia. Films, panel presentations and discussions will be held from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday in the Humanities Building, room 150.

Students in the Minority Arts and Sciences Program are finding their experiences so rewarding that their younger brothers and sisters are joining. Since 1993 MASP has helped 140 underrepresented students to succeed academically and personally in selected science and mathematics fields. The program has expanded to include students pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences. Eleven students recently were selected as the first scholars in the new component of the program, beginning fall 2000. Four families have two or more siblings currently enrolled in MASP.

First-year MBA students at CU-Boulder evaluated the International Olympic CommitteeÂ’s management strategies at the seventh annual GW/KPMG National MBA Case Competition on March 24-25 in Washington, D.C. The competition, sponsored by George Washington UniversityÂ’s School of Business and Public Management and KPMG Peat Marwick, provided students with the opportunity to compare their skills with MBA students from top schools including Georgetown University, the University of Illinois, Vanderbilt University and Virginia Tech University.

Student leaders from minority and women engineering student organizations throughout the Rocky Mountain region will attend the "Gill Diversity Conference: Making DilbertÂ’s World Diverse" at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder April 7-8. The conference, to be held at the Regal Harvest House Hotel, is made possible by a grant from the Gill Foundation. Tim Gill, chairman and chief technology officer of Quark, Inc., and a CU-Boulder alumnus, set up the foundation to support civil rights and educational organizations.

Patricia Nelson Limerick, nationally acclaimed history professor at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder, will speak on her new book, "Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West," on Friday, April 7. The talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities Building, room 1B50, on the CU-Boulder campus. The talk is free and open to the public, and books will be available for sale. Following the lecture, Limerick will sign books at a reception in the CU Heritage Center in Old Main.

A distinguished panel of scholars will discuss the new book by CU-Boulder assistant history Professor Susan Johnson, "Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush," on Thursday, April 6, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center room 235. The event is free and open to the public. In addition to Johnson, the panelists will include Nan Boyd, assistant professor of women's studies at CU-Boulder; Patricia Limerick, professor of history at CU-Boulder; and Duane Smith, professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango.