CU-Boulder Management Professor Helps Business Make Better Hires

Oct. 5, 1997

EDITORS: Rosse will speak to business leaders at a seminar from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the Denver Marriott City Center, 1701 California St. The seminar is co-sponsored by Holland & Hart and the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry. Management Professor Joe Rosse hopes his new book, “High Impact Hiring: A Comprehensive Guide to Performance-Based Hiring,” will help the average manager make better personnel-related decisions.

Hallmark CEO To Address CU-Boulder Business Students Monday

Oct. 2, 1997

NEWS TIP SHEET Hallmark CEO To Address CU-Boulder Business Students Monday Irvine O. Hockaday Jr., president and CEO of Hallmark Cards –- the world’s largest producer of greeting cards –- will speak to students in the Profiles in American Enterprise class at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 6. The class, organized by Professor John Hess, meets in Math 100. Contact John Hess at 492-7800 to arrange a time to interview Hockaday or call Laurie Van Horn in the Public Relations office at 492-5188.

CU-Boulder Researcher Constructs Interactive World Wide Web Game

Oct. 2, 1997

Editors: Photographers are welcome at the Oct. 7 demonstration from noon to 3 p.m. in engineering room 225. Contact Carol Rowe at 492-3113 for more information. University of Colorado at Boulder researcher Corrina Perrone, in collaboration with David Clark, a middle school teacher for the Boulder Valley School District, has designed an interactive learning game called WebQuest that helps students learn how to make the most of the World Wide Web.

CU-Boulder Professor Opens Home to MenÂ’s Basketball Team

Oct. 1, 1997

News Tip Sheet The University of Colorado men’s Basketball Team has been invited to participate in “Domingo en Casa,” a program started by a CU-Boulder professor and his wife to make minority students feel welcome in Boulder. The student players will share Sunday dinner with Professor Al Ramirez and his wife, Vera, at their Boulder home. Other faculty and community members will join them, along with Coach Ricardo Patton and his wife, Jennifer. The media also are invited to attend the gathering, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5, at 4065 Apache Road.

CU-Boulder To Offer Pre-Game Seminars

Sept. 30, 1997

Fans will have a chance to tackle the classroom before watching the Buffs tackle their football foes at three University of Colorado home games in October and November. “CU Before the Game” seminars, showcasing acclaimed campus performing artists and top-ranked faculty, will give area residents and visitors an opportunity to sample some of CU-Boulder’s cultural and academic offerings on game day mornings. Three separate events are scheduled concurrently and participants will be able to attend only one prior to each game. No reservations are necessary.

CU-Boulder Peer Mediation Group Aims To Solve Student Conflicts

Sept. 30, 1997

The Student Conflict Resolution Service, or SCORES, is being launched this fall in an effort to help students resolve conflicts with other students. SCORES will use peer mediation to help students work toward resolving disputes and misunderstandings. The free service will be staffed by trained student mediators working impartially and confidentially to mediate disagreements.

CU-Boulder To Offer Pre-Game Seminars

Sept. 30, 1997

Fans will have a chance to tackle the classroom before watching the Buffs tackle their football foes at three University of Colorado home games in October and November. “CU Before the Game” seminars, showcasing acclaimed campus performing artists and top-ranked faculty, will give area residents and visitors an opportunity to sample some of CU-Boulder’s cultural and academic offerings on game day mornings. Three separate events are scheduled concurrently and participants will be able to attend only one prior to each game. No reservations are necessary.

Cassini Mission: Fact Sheet

Sept. 30, 1997

* The Cassini spacecraft is taking a roundabout route to Saturn. It will make two “slingshot” swings past Venus and one each past Earth and Jupiter to achieve the additional speed necessary to reach the Saturn system. When the Voyager spacecraft used a “gravity assist” from Jupiter in 1980, for example, it gained 16 miles per second of speed.

$12 Million CU Instrument Package Headed For Saturn On Cassini Mission

Sept. 30, 1997

A $12 million instrument package designed and built by the University of Colorado at Boulder for the Cassini Mission to Saturn will be used to probe the planetÂ’s spectacular ring system, bizarre moons and atmospheric gases. Slated for launch Oct. 13 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., the spacecraft will travel 2 billion miles during a roundabout, 6.7-year journey to the ringed planet. The $3.3 billion project, the most ambitious planetary mission ever mounted, is managed for NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Continuing Education Offers Chance To Register For Session 2 Courses

Sept. 30, 1997

Registration is underway for Session 2 credit courses through the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. All session 2 Monday and Wednesday evening courses begin Oct. 27 and end Dec. 10. Tuesday and Thursday evening courses begin Oct. 28 and end Dec. 16. Most Session 2 courses are three to four credit hours. Students who are interested in education courses may want to enroll in the “Workshop in Curricular and Instructional Development: The Art of Creative Teaching.”

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