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A panel discussion, "In a Strange Land: Becoming an International Journalist," will be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder on March 22 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Eaton Humanities Building room 1B80. The panel is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and will be moderated by Dean Paul S. Voakes. It is free and open to the public.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has launched a Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative to coordinate the university's already extensive campus resources devoted to energy coursework and research, mobilizing resources to underscore CU-Boulder's leadership in energy innovation.

University of Colorado at Boulder experts in the science, business and policy issues surrounding renewable and sustainable energy sources will gather for a town hall meeting and discussion March 21, the first public event of the university's new Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative.

The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been named one of 10 "Hot Spots" for entrepreneurial education by Fortune Small Business magazine in its March issue. The magazine recognized the Leeds School as a "leader in 'green' entrepreneurship" and noted that its entrepreneurship program "specializes in helping students create companies that are eco-friendly and socially progressive." Fortune Small Business also said that "leaders of Boulder's organic and natural-products industry offer support."

Unusual spokes that appear fleetingly on the rings of Saturn only to disappear for years at a time may become visible again by July, according to a new study spearheaded by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Fifteen students from the University of Colorado at Boulder will help repair a New Orleans shelter for victims of domestic violence as part of several alternative spring break volunteer projects during the week of March 27-31. Crescent House, a shelter for women and children that sustained wind and flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, will host the CU-Boulder students. The students will drive from Boulder to New Orleans March 24 and will arrive back in Boulder on April 2 just before classes resume.

A group of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers will share their experiences in the arctic, Greenland and Antarctic at a March 22 campus event in a prelude to the next International Polar Year, or IPY, in 2007.

Ronald Bernier will present his final public lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder as a professor of art history when he discusses "Hidden Buddhist Arts in Burma, Ladakh and Tibet" on Monday, March 20. The free, public presentation will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 250. A reception will be held following the lecture.

Ten University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and staff members received the 2006 Marinus G. Smith Recognition Awards from the CU Parents Association. The award recognizes CU-Boulder faculty, instructors and staff who have made a significant impact on the lives of one or more CU-Boulder undergraduates. Students and parents were asked to nominate candidates who were deserving of this recognition.

An opportunity for University of Colorado at Boulder students to rub shoulders with national leaders during the U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute's national conference in Chicago March 9-12 was made easier by a donation from Southwest Airlines. As part of CU-Boulder's Collegiate Leadership Development Program, students, faculty and staff travel each year to the national conference to network and learn leadership skills from an array of speakers attending the conference, which is expected to draw about 6,000 people.