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Editors: A complete schedule of the conference is attached. The Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder is hosting a conference April 7-8 focusing on human rights issues in Asia. Films, panel presentations and discussions will be held from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday in the Humanities Building, room 150.

Students in the Minority Arts and Sciences Program are finding their experiences so rewarding that their younger brothers and sisters are joining. Since 1993 MASP has helped 140 underrepresented students to succeed academically and personally in selected science and mathematics fields. The program has expanded to include students pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences. Eleven students recently were selected as the first scholars in the new component of the program, beginning fall 2000. Four families have two or more siblings currently enrolled in MASP.

First-year MBA students at CU-Boulder evaluated the International Olympic CommitteeÂ’s management strategies at the seventh annual GW/KPMG National MBA Case Competition on March 24-25 in Washington, D.C. The competition, sponsored by George Washington UniversityÂ’s School of Business and Public Management and KPMG Peat Marwick, provided students with the opportunity to compare their skills with MBA students from top schools including Georgetown University, the University of Illinois, Vanderbilt University and Virginia Tech University.

Student leaders from minority and women engineering student organizations throughout the Rocky Mountain region will attend the "Gill Diversity Conference: Making DilbertÂ’s World Diverse" at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 7-8. The conference, to be held at the Regal Harvest House Hotel, is made possible by a grant from the Gill Foundation. Tim Gill, chairman and chief technology officer of Quark, Inc., and a CU-Boulder alumnus, set up the foundation to support civil rights and educational organizations.

Patricia Nelson Limerick, nationally acclaimed history professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will speak on her new book, "Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West," on Friday, April 7. The talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities Building, room 1B50, on the CU-Boulder campus. The talk is free and open to the public, and books will be available for sale. Following the lecture, Limerick will sign books at a reception in the CU Heritage Center in Old Main.

A distinguished panel of scholars will discuss the new book by CU-Boulder assistant history Professor Susan Johnson, "Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush," on Thursday, April 6, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center room 235. The event is free and open to the public. In addition to Johnson, the panelists will include Nan Boyd, assistant professor of women's studies at CU-Boulder; Patricia Limerick, professor of history at CU-Boulder; and Duane Smith, professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango.

A $220,000 award from the National Science Foundation to the University of Colorado at Boulder will be used to help undergraduates and graduate students with pressing financial needs in the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the mathematics and applied mathematics departments. The two-year award is part of the agencyÂ’s initiative for increasing technical training in the workforce, said Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Michael Grant, the principal author of the winning NSF proposal.

Diane Winston, fellow at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University, will deliver the 2000 Ralph L. Crosman lecture of CU-Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Tuesday, April 4. A former reporter and religion editor, Winston will discuss the boundary between religion and the press in her lecture, "Going Public: Religion and the News Media," which will begin at 5 p.m. in the Humanities Building auditorium, room 150.

Academics, activists and community leaders will present works covering various aspects of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered studies and culture at the eighth annual "Lambda Rising: A Queer Studies Conference" on April 8 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Saturday conference will feature panelists discussing GLBT issues, including "Are College Campuses Safe for GLBT Students?" and "Ten Thousand Voices of Gender: A Critical Look at Alternative Gendered Voices from the Last 100 Years."

Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of New England in Australia have been awarded $2.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study early reading development in identical and fraternal twins.