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The "Colorado Creed," a student initiative to reflect pride and honor in the University of Colorado at Boulder community, will be formally presented April 11 at an unveiling ceremony. Student organizers will be joined by CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Ron Stump in a 1 p.m. ceremony on the south side of Old Main on the CU-Boulder campus.

Seventeen University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism students will get a chance to apply classroom knowledge to the world of professional sports broadcasting on Saturday, April 2. With permission from Altitude Sports Network, students from journalism instructor Chad Wachs' sports broadcasting class will broadcast and tape the 7 p.m. Colorado Mammoth versus Anaheim Storm National Lacrosse League contest at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

The entrepreneurship program at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business has been ranked 14th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report in its 2006 Best Graduate Schools edition, up from 15th in the 2005 edition. This year's ranking marks the sixth consecutive year the program has been ranked among the top 20 programs nationally.

Five University of Colorado at Boulder graduate specialty programs were rated in the top 20 nationally in a new but limited U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings report scheduled for release April 1.

U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn has dismissed the Title IX lawsuit. Here are statements from President Hoffman and Chancellor DiStefano. Statement from CU President Elizabeth Hoffman I am relieved and gratified that the court has granted our motion for summary judgment.

MEDIA ADVISORY Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, will speak April 3 at 7 p.m. at the Coors Events/Conference Center on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Parking for media will be available in Lot 430, across Regent Drive from the events center and adjacent to the Leeds School of Business. Following are media guidelines for the event stipulated in Giuliani's contract:

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host its 14th International Festival on Saturday, April 9, in celebration of the cultures, customs, foods and music of the nearly 90 countries represented by CU's international community. The festival will feature live entertainment, country and cultural booths and free food from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center.

A team of University of Colorado at Boulder MBA students will compete in the national finals of the Venture Capital Investment Competition to be held April 7-9 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Leeds School of Business team joins seven other teams in the finals, including Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The winning team will take home $10,000, with second place receiving $5,000 and third place $2,000.

Robert Palmer, Democratic staff director for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science from 1993 through January 2005, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 11. Titled "Science, Policy and Politics: A View from the Hill," the talk will be held at the CIRES Auditorium at 2 p.m. in the Ekeley Sciences Building.

The newest discoveries and pictures from the Cassini spacecraft exploring Saturn will be presented at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on April 7 and 8. Josh Colwell, a co-investigator on Cassini's ultraviolet camera and a research associate at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will present "Unveiling Saturn" at 7:30 p.m. on both days.