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Lectures, gospel concerts and a soul food dinner are among many events scheduled in February for Black Awareness Month at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The CU-Boulder Center for Multicultural Affairs is presenting a series of lectures, including an address by the Rev. Al Sharpton, as well as the 16th annual gospel extravaganza and the 14th annual soul food dinner at various locations and times on campus in February. February is also National Black History Month.

"A History of Black Achievement in America," a documentary co-produced by Alphonse Keasley, director of the University of Colorado at Boulder Minority Arts and Sciences program, will be televised in February and March on KBDI Channel 12. The series, which also features African American faculty and students from CU-Boulder, will air Saturdays at 1 p.m. starting Feb 4. February is National Black History Month.

The National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation and a major science-policy advising group to the president and Congress, will meet on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Feb. 10. The CU-Boulder visit includes a commission meeting by the NSB on 21st century education challenges in science, math and technology. The board also will attend a campus poster session that morning highlighting NSF-funded research underway at CU-Boulder.

The most effective way for people to regulate their eating and weight without a strict diet is to use their internal signals to balance the overwhelming power of good-tasting food, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder psychology professor. Linda Craighead, who has done research on eating disorders and weight management for more than 20 years, has developed a technique called "appetite awareness training" to help people stop overeating and control their weight, while still eating foods they enjoy.

Supernovae and the science of planet formation will be discussed in February during Fiske Planetarium presentations at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "What Planets Are and How They Form" will be held Thursday, Feb. 9, and Friday, Feb. 10, while "Supernovae" will take place Thursday, Feb. 16, and Friday, Feb. 17. All presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. and admission is $6 for adults, $5 for students and $3.50 for children and seniors.

A University of Colorado student from the school's first-place Solar Decathlon team will sit with First Lady Laura Bush during the President's State of the Union address tonight. Jeff Lyng, a graduate student in the civil, environmental and architectural engineering department at CU-Boulder who was project manager for CU's 2005 Solar Decathlon team, was invited to the event as a special guest of the White House. The president's address, which begins at 9 p.m. EST (7 p.m. MST), will be televised on all major networks.

The Rev. Al Sharpton will speak Feb. 8 about racism and politics in America at a free public event presented by the University of Colorado at Boulder's student-run Cultural Events Board. Sharpton's presentation is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom in the University Memorial Center on the CU-Boulder campus. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and attendees are encouraged to arrive early because there will be no reserved seating.

Students, faculty and others wanting to transform their technological ideas into business ventures are invited to attend the second annual "Invention to Venture" workshop Feb. 22 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The one-day, hands-on workshop will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Discovery Learning Center, room 1B70, located at the southwest corner of Regent Drive and Colorado Avenue. The cost is $15 for students, staff and faculty of any educational institution and $75 for others.

University administrators have approved a new three-campus program that offers high-achieving undergraduates at the University of Colorado the early assurance of admission to the CU School of Medicine in Denver.

Peace Corps news release DENVER - Every year, thousands of college graduates travel across the globe as Peace Corps volunteers, to assist those they have never met. In what has become an annual tradition, Director Gaddi H. Vasquez and the rest of the Peace Corps staff recognize those alumni who take on this challenge and serve in the Peace Corps by publishing the "Top Producing Colleges and Universities" list for 2006.