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The CU-Boulder Division of Continuing Education and the University Book Store will present two well-known babyÖ±²¥app, who are also authors, in a Lunch and Learn Series to be held at the Chautauqua Community House. The lunch-time talks will entertain, provoke and inform, according to Gwen Thornton, academic coordinator for the Division of Continuing Education.

Growing up on the Navajo reservation in northeast Arizona, Rita Cordalis was like most other children there who didnÂ’t grasp the significance of their cultural traditions as they grew up in their midst. Now a student in the University of babyÖ±²¥appÂ’s Museum Studies graduate program, Cordalis has found in the Navajo tradition of basketmaking a language that tells the story of her people. “To me, itÂ’s important to tell the story of the baskets,” Cordalis says. “Even among the Navajo people, itÂ’s not a story thatÂ’s told often.”

The University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder released a report today on the outcome of its investigation into the participation of an ineligible football player in the fall 1997 football season. In the report provided to the Big 12 Conference, the university concluded the participation by student-athlete Darren M. Fisk was an inadvertent violation of NCAA Bylaw 14.2.1. Under a fixed penalty clause of the NCAA and the Big 12 conference, the university agreed to forfeit all victories in the fall 1997 season.

The IMAX film crew that documented life and death on Mount Everest relied on the expertise of CU-Boulder geology Professor Roger Bilhan over an 18-month period to help them get the science right. “Everest,” which premieres March 13 at the IMAX Theater in the Denver Museum of Natural History, was filmed by a crew led by David Breashears of Boulder.

Daniel Vigil, associate dean of the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder School of Law, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver. The non-profit corporation was founded in 1925 to provide free legal representation in civil matters to low-income residents in the Denver metropolitan area. Since the early 1980s, the organization also has served clients in 11 rural mountain counties in northwestern babyÖ±²¥app.

The University of babyÖ±²¥app and babyÖ±²¥app State University have teamed up with two babyÖ±²¥app high schools to create a statewide model for learning Japanese. The Modern Language Association awarded a grant of nearly $6,000 to the universities to work with Eaglecrest High School in Aurora and Boulder High School over the next two years. It was one of eight such awards made nationally.

Navajo star and constellation myths, including the Navajo story of how the stars were created, will be the subject of the next live astronomy presentation or “star talk” at Fiske Planetarium on the campus of the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder. “Navajo Skies” will be presented by CU astronomer John Stocke at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 6, and repeated at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 11.

The International WomenÂ’s Alliance at CU-Boulder is hosting three workshops a day, March 3 through March 6, during International WomenÂ’s Week, which began Sunday with a keynote speech by Winona LaDuke, an internationally acclaimed Native American and environmental activist. The workshops are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in conference rooms 158 and 159, located in the University Memorial Center.

Longtime Boulder residents David and Frances Hawkins have been named the second recipients of the George Gamow Memorial Lecture Award at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder. The award honors the CU-Boulder scientists who have "made the most significant contribution to the public's understanding of science." The Hawkins received the award at the 33rd George Gamow Memorial Lecture on March 3.

Political activist Angela Davis will give the keynote address titled "Unfinished Liberation: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex" at a three-day conference on race and gender issues March 13-15 at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder.