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Two University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduate teams have been named Outstanding Winners in the prestigious Mathematical Contest in Modeling sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications. And that's out of only 11 Outstanding Winners named from a field of 742 entering teams.

Memories of concerts, films and events in the storied 51-year history of the student-run University of Colorado at Boulder Program Council will be shared April 2 and April 3 when current and former event organizers gather at the university for a weekend reunion.

Research Associate Hannah Gosnell of the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 7 will lecture on conservationists' efforts to restore and "rewild" the Southern Rockies ecoregion, which includes Colorado's Western Slope and parts of southwestern Wyoming and northwestern New Mexico. "Healing the Southern Rockies Ecoregion: What Will it Take?" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House at 900 Baseline Road in Boulder. The talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

Note to Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend without charge. To arrange, call Kley Achterhof at (303) 735-5633 or e-mail kley.achterhof@colorado.edu . Examining the financing strategies of Internet and telecommunications startup firms during the boom and bust of the 1990s will be one of several topics addressed in a panel discussion March 30 at CU-Boulder's Fourth Annual Silicon Flatirons Conference on Startup Businesses.

How the Columbine tragedy changed Colorado journalists and their newsrooms will be the topic of an April 1 panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Discussing the story behind the story will be John Temple, editor of the Rocky Mountain News; Michelle Fulcher, former national editor of The Denver Post; and Roger Simpson, director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the University of Washington. The event will be held from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 1, in Eaton Humanities Building room 250.

An $88 million NASA satellite designed and built by the University of Colorado at Boulder launched in late January 2003 to study variations in the sun is performing flawlessly after more than a year in orbit, scientists say. Launched aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, or SORCE, was developed to study how and why variations in the sun affect Earth's atmosphere and climate.

A University of Colorado at Boulder expert on landscape ecology and prairie dog disease has been named a 2004 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in recognition of her outstanding leadership ability and desire to communicate scientific issues beyond academic audiences. Associate Professor Sharon Collinge is among 20 Leopold fellows selected this year from around the United States and Guam. Collinge holds a joint appointment in the CU-Boulder department of ecology and evolutionary biology and environmental studies.

Robert Kirshner, a Harvard University astrophysicist and author, will discuss how the light of distant exploding stars could validate one of Einstein's most controversial theories during a March 30 lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "A Blunder Undone: The Accelerating Universe" will be held in Macky Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu will kick off a six-day "Stop the Silence" AIDS symposium March 29 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, is the keynote speaker of the symposium that includes advocates and scholars from CU-Boulder and Harvard University. Tutu will discuss his new book, "God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times," at 7 p.m. in the Coors Events/Conference Center.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the symposium free of charge. Job "offshoring" and its potential positive and negative effects on the Colorado and national economy will be the topic of a March 25 symposium in Denver co-sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business and the Mountain States Council of AeA, the nation's largest high-tech trade association.