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Editors: State Rep. Ron Tupa (Dist. 14) will receive the first CU license plates to be issued under the new program on Monday, Jan. 24, at 8 a.m. at the Boulder County Courthouse. Colorado residents can now purchase new University of Colorado custom license plates through their county clerkÂ’s office. The state legislature approved the specialty plates in spring 1998 and they are becoming available in January.

A commissioner of the FCC, the Assistant U.S. Attorney General, the head of ColoradoÂ’s Public Utilities Commission and local information technology executives will examine telecommunications law at a CU-Boulder School of Law conference Feb. 6-7. Executives of US West, Level (3) and AT&T will join government officials for the conference, which will explore whether the nationÂ’s telecommunications laws are fit for the 21st century and, if not, what needs to be done to meet the challenge.

Note to Editors: In some cases, press members can arrange to meet with the business leaders prior to or following their lectures. The postmaster general and chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service, William J. Henderson, will speak to University of Colorado at Boulder students on Jan. 18. Henderson will speak from 3:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. in room 100 of the Math Building.

Colorado residents age 55 and older are eligible to audit regular daytime classes at the University of Colorado at Boulder for a nominal fee through the Senior Auditors Program. Spring semester registration will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at the Koenig Alumni Center located on the southeast corner of University Avenue and Broadway.

Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been awarded the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics from the Franklin Institute. The prestigious award also was presented to Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Editors: JustinÂ’s father, Jerome Colonna, is available for comment at work (541) 923-5437 or home (541) 923-3568. Abraham LaMark and Aaron Loughram, JustinÂ’s roommates, are also available at (303) 545-9724. A memorial service for Justin Colonna, of Eugene, Ore., the University of Colorado at Boulder student presumed killed in an avalanche in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area on Dec. 18 is being held Saturday, Jan. 22, at 6 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.

Information streaming back from a new NASA satellite indicates that molecular hydrogen, the primary ingredient for star and planet formation, is found nearly everywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study.

Navajo star and constellation myths, including the story of the creation of stars, will be explored during the centuryÂ’s first live astronomy show at the Fiske Planetarium on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. John Stocke, a CU-Boulder professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences, will present "Navajo Skies" at Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 p.m. "Navajo Skies" is the first in a series of live astronomy talks at the planetarium this spring.

Is health a right for all or a privilege for some? Campus and metro-area community members are invited to discuss this and other questions in a live, interactive satellite conference on race, class and health Jan. 19 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The national teleconference, hosted by the Public Broadcasting System, will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Coors Events Center rooms 4 and 5. A local panel discussion will follow.

The Sommers-Bausch Observatory at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be open to the public, weather permitting, from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 20, to view the centuryÂ’s first total eclipse of the moon. The lunar eclipse begins when the full moon enters the EarthÂ’s shadow at 8:05 p.m. and will be totally eclipsed by 9:09 p.m. The total eclipse will last until 10:22 p.m., but at 9:48 p.m. it will be deepest into EarthÂ’s shadow and will be about one ten-thousandth as bright as it was earlier in the evening.