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The annual party for incoming freshmen at CU-Boulder's University Memorial Center will be held on Friday, Aug. 23, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. following the New Student Convocation at the Norlin Quadrangle. Welcome Fest, formerly known as the UMC Crawl, returns this year with a new name and a newly renovated facility to provide an evening of entertainment and free prizes. According to Leasa Weimer, director of student programs for the UMC, Welcome Fest is a great way for new students to meet each other, be entertained and explore the student union facility.

The CU Heritage Center will present a slideshow lecture and guided tour on "Bats in the Old Main Belfry" on Wednesday, Aug. 28, at 6 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. Rick Adams, president of the Boulder chapter of the Colorado Bat Society, will discuss the bats that live in the attic of Old Main. The event will move outside to view bat exit holes and, with luck, bats in flight. The event is free and open to the public. A reception with light refreshments will take place at 7 p.m. before the guided walk at dusk.

Students at the University of Colorado at Boulder are being reminded in several ways of the risks associated with hosting parties and are being provided tips to avoid injuries, legal consequences and even suspensions. "Smart Celebrating Tips" are being emailed to students in the form of Buff Bulletins, and Off-Campus Student Services has provided information at orientations and through its campus office and mailings. CU and Boulder police also will address the issue at their biannual "Hill Stops" on Aug. 23-24.

A panel of experts will gather Aug. 29 at the University of Colorado at Boulder for a free public discussion of the causes and effects of wildfire and how technology could lead to better fire management. "Fires in the West: What Should We Do?" will take place in the University Memorial Center, room 235, at 7:30 p.m. Free parking will be available in the Euclid Avenue Autopark and light refreshments will follow the presentation.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been selected by NASA to design and build an instrument package for a new satellite known as the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the first mission in the agency's new "Living with a Star" program.

The fall 2002 freshman class at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be larger than last year by about 370 students, the result of record applications and high confirmation rates among those admitted, university officials say.

Kevin Lee, associate director of University Communications at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named interim executive director of University Communications while a national search for the permanent position is conducted. The position was vacated in early July by the departure of Bobbi Barrow, who left the university to join Denver Health Medical Center.

Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organization, will set up a traveling exhibit at the University of Colorado at Boulder Aug. 24-25 to raise awareness of the need for medicines in poor countries. The exhibit, housed in a 48-foot tractor-trailer, will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days and is free and open to the public. The exhibit will be set up between Fiske Planetarium and the Leeds School of Business on the north side of Regent Drive.

The Religious Campus Organizations will host its second annual ice cream social at the University of Colorado at Boulder Aug. 22 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the lawn of the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building. RCO is composed of 21 member groups involved in campus ministry at the university. Staff and students will be available to answer questions and provide information on the groups.

Their journey as refugees fleeing the brutal civil war in Sudan that claimed the lives of their families and their villages has taken them through some of the most war-torn areas of the world. Now it is bringing them to the University of Colorado at Boulder.