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Calendar Item Fiske Planetarium Presents "Season of Light" Fiske Planetarium will explore the origins of traditions such as menorah candles, solstice bonfires, mistletoe and the Christmas star during "Season of Light," a holiday star show. The program will be shown on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons during the holiday season. The Friday shows are Nov. 30, Dec. 14 and Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and the Saturday shows are Dec. 1, Dec. 8, Dec. 15 and Dec. 22 at 2 p.m.

Editors: The public is invited to a booksigning and reception for Professor Erika Doss in the CU-Boulder Fine Arts Gallery at 5 p.m. on Nov. 28. The event is sponsored by the fine arts department and the CU Book Store. Why was Life magazine so wildly popular and influential? Erika Doss, professor of art history and director of the American Studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, set out to explore those questions in "Looking at Life Magazine," the first book to take a critical look at the magazine from different points of view.

Note to Editors: Reporters are invited to attend a reception at the downtown Denver law offices of Holme Roberts & Owen at 1700 Lincoln St., Suite 4100, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 27. Representatives from the CBA, the specialty bar associations, the CU and DU law schools and the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals will attend. The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law and the Colorado Bar Association Diversity in the Legal Profession Committee today announced the development of a new minority mentor program.

Margot Adler, a National Public Radio correspondent based in New York, will give a public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Tuesday, Nov. 27. Adler, who will be on campus as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum, will speak at 1:30 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. She will speak about "Life, Politics and Spirit after Sept. 11: Musings of a New York Journalist."

Editor's Note: Media and the public are invited to visit the Laboratory for 3-D Cell Structure Open House on Nov. 26 at 4:30 p.m. in room B0021 of the Porter Biosciences Building. The University of Colorado at Boulder has acquired two new state-of-the-art electron microscopes and a suite of complementing computers that are providing three-dimensional images of cellular structures that have never been seen before.

Gary Hart, former U.S. Senator from Colorado and co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, will give a public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 3 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel.

A new report from the University of Colorado at Boulder's Natural Resources Law Center addresses some tough questions concerning the impact of growth on Colorado's water supply. The 191-page report, "Water and Growth in Colorado," is based on approximately 70 interviews with a "Who's Who" of Colorado water leaders as well as a review of recent water studies in the state.

Editors: Ryan Patterson's CU-Boulder visit is not open to the public, but the media may attend part of the Saturday meeting at JILA from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Grand Junction teenage science whiz Ryan Patterson, who has been invited to present his invention of an assistive technology device to Nobel laureates in Sweden next month, will meet one of this year's Colorado Nobel Prize winners, Eric Cornell, this Saturday.

The National Science Foundation has designated the Center for Membrane Applied Science and Technology (MAST) as an NSF Multi-University Research Center with sites at CU-Boulder and the University of Cincinnati. The award status was conferred on the MAST Center by the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for an initial period of five years.

Editors: The first of four "Vision Forums" to guide the CU-Boulder GLBT Center meets today from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the University Memorial Center, room 305. Bruce Smail has been appointed director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to Elease Robbins, associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students. The appointment has been approved by Chancellor Byyny and became effective Oct. 1.