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After a temporary closure during the past year, the Indian Law Clinic of the University of Colorado School of Law will reopen on Jan. 14. Newly appointed faculty member, Judge Jill E. Tompkins, will serve as the clinic's director. Tompkins replaces former director, Jerilyn DeCoteau, who stepped down early last year to become legal counsel to the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Indians in North Dakota. Tompkins will teach the American Indian Law Clinic Seminar course and supervise the Clinic's student attorneys.

The University of Colorado School of Law and the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program will host a symposium Jan. 27-28 to inaugurate the school's new Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law. The symposium, titled "The Regulation of Information Platforms," will meet in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom of the Fleming Law Building on campus.

Editors: Please note two other PECASE Awards were received by CU/NOAA researchers, described in an accompanying release. University of Colorado at Boulder engineering professors Kenneth Gall and Jorge G. Zornberg have been selected as recipients of the prestigious 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Editors: Please note two other PECASE Awards were received by CU engineering faculty, described in an accompanying release. Boulder researchers Steven S. Brown and Thomas M. Hamill have been named winners of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Both scientists are research associates at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and both work at NOAA's David Skaggs Research Center. CIRES is a joint institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Although Wall Street has faced hard times in recent months, CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business students are investing -- and coming out ahead. During the fall 2001 semester, on an original investment of $180,000, they showed earnings of almost $30,000 or a return of 15.23 percent. As part of the Leeds School's Seminar in Investment Management class, finance students have access to the Rollé Student Investment Fund to gain real-world experience making investments and apply financial knowledge gained at the school.

CEOs and founders of Noodles & Co., eBags, Target Corp. and other leading companies will discuss lessons learned from their successful business careers with CU-Boulder students in lectures throughout the spring semester. The Fortune 500 executives and entrepreneurs will speak during class lectures of the Profiles in American Enterprise course beginning Jan. 22 and running though April 30.

The Friends of the Libraries at CU-Boulder will present the fourth annual Information Day on Tuesday, Jan. 8. The day offers the public an opportunity to become familiar with the contents of Norlin Library and how to use them. The event will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Center for British Studies in CU-Boulder's Norlin Library. It is free and open to the public.

Local students were among the 1,898 students who received degrees Dec. 21 during fall commencement at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The ceremony was held in the Coors Events/Conference Center on the CU-Boulder campus. The Chancellor's Recognition Award for students receiving all As in their college careers was given to Nikhil Mankekar of Boulder, Colo., who received a bachelor's degree in finance.

Demolition of the Hunter Science Building at the University of Colorado at Boulder will begin the morning of Dec. 21, according to Mike Martens, project manager with the university's Facilities Management department. The 93-year-old building is being removed to make way for future construction of the ATLAS building and expansion of the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building. The ATLAS program -- the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society -- supports technology use across campus.

Toothpaste, ketchup and water are just some of the fluids that will be analyzed during the next CU Wizards show "Go With the Flow" on Saturday, Dec. 29, at 9:30 a.m. in the Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building, room 140. University of Colorado at Boulder faculty members Janet deGrazia, of chemical engineering, and Brian Argrow, of aerospace engineering, will investigate the mysterious properties of several kinds of fluids, some of which move very slowly and others that move at supersonic speeds.