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Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences accurately forecasted two earthquakes greater than magnitude 5.1 while a paper describing the forecasting method was still in press.

Statistically significant differences among salaries of male, female and minority faculty members have disappeared at the University of Colorado at Boulder following five years of annual studies of salary inequity, according to Bill Kaempfer, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. Kaempfer also is a CU-Boulder economics professor. He has undertaken studies of the problem in each of the last five years.

Deirdre McCloskey, a well-known economist once known as Donald, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday, March 8, at 3:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 1B50. McCloskey, who is a professor of economics, English and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss capitalism, globalization and the middle class during her lecture "Bourgeois Virtue and Globalization." She will be on campus March 7-8 as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum. The event is free and open to the public.

Enrollment in a University of Colorado at Boulder Islamic studies course has doubled, and the religion expert who teaches the class is preparing for even larger classes in future semesters. The combined upper-division and graduate course "Islam in the Modern World" has 31 students enrolled for the spring 2002 semester - twice as many as normal, according to Professor Fred Denny, chair of the CU-Boulder religious studies department and instructor of the class.

The opening of a 51,000-square-foot addition to the University of Colorado at Boulder's University Memorial Center will be celebrated at a March 7 ceremony featuring live music and food. At 10 a.m., university officials will be joined by an ROTC color guard for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the unveiling of the north entrance to the addition, located just southwest of the Dalton Trumbo Fountain.

A $5 million gift from Tom and Cydney Marsico to establish two Marsico Endowed Chairs of Excellence at the University of Colorado was announced Friday evening, Feb. 22, in Denver before a gathering of campaign donors and volunteers. The event was hosted by the University of Colorado Foundation. In a pre-recorded announcement, Marsico recounted his excitement at hearing the news that two CU physicists, Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman, had won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Cornell and Wieman will be the first honorees to hold the Marsico Endowed Chairs in Excellence.

Two University of Colorado at Boulder professors have been elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, joining 11 other faculty from the campus who have been elected since the academy's formation in 1962. Ross B. Corotis, former dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, and Fred W. Glover, professor of operations management and operations research in the Leeds School of Business, were among 74 new members of the academy announced Feb. 15.

Professor Stewart Hoover of the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named interim dean of the school, according to Provost Phil DiStefano. The appointment is pending approval by the CU Board of Regents in March. Dean Del Brinkman announced his resignation earlier this month citing health and family concerns. Brinkman has been dean since January 2001.

The Flying Words Project, a contemporary poetry ensemble that promotes American Sign Language literature, will perform at CU-Boulder's Charlotte York Irey Theater on Friday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. The performance in the University Theatre building is free and open to the public. A reception with the artists will follow.

Note to Editors: LASP will hold an open house at its East Campus facility Friday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m. on Colorado Avenue east of 30th Street featuring scientists, students and instruments involved in SORCE. Five space instruments developed and built at the University of Colorado at Boulder are being shipped to a spacecraft manufacturing plant in Dulles, Va., next week in preparation for a November 2002 launch to measure solar radiation.