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Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 5 p.m. EST on Jan. 24. Additional photos are available by calling Mike Liguori at (303) 492-3117. Microbes living in the brilliantly colored hot springs of Yellowstone National Park use primarily hydrogen for fuel, a discovery University of Colorado at Boulder researchers say bodes well for life in extreme environments on other planets and could add to understanding of bacteria inside the human body.

MEDIA ADVISORY A "multimedia groundbreaking" Jan. 25 for CU-Boulder's new $34 million ATLAS Center will feature "virtual shovels" in a video to be shown on the site of the former Hunter Science Building, northeast of the University Memorial Center on campus. The groundbreaking is at 12:30 p.m. and is open to the public. ATLAS is the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society Institute.

When University of Colorado at Boulder Distinguished Law Professor Charles Wilkinson was asked to testify on behalf of an American Indian accused of murder, he jumped at the opportunity. But this was not your ordinary murder case. It happened over 146 years ago. Originally tried in the Oregon Territory in what is now the state of Washington, the man accused of murder was called Leschi, the last chief of the Nisqually Tribe.

Two University of Colorado at Boulder faculty members will receive $175,000 from the MacArthur Foundation for projects that focus on human migration. The grants were among 26 awarded to scholars in Russia, Botswana, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Northern Ireland and the United States.

A panel of writers, editors and publishers will share the secrets of succeeding in the competitive consumer magazine industry on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 5 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 150 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The event is part of the Career Series sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.

Note to Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the symposium, and panelists will be available for interviews after the program ends. University of Colorado at Boulder experts in earthquakes and tsunamis, the sociology of disasters, and the various cultures and politics of the Indian Ocean region will gather Jan. 26 for a free public symposium.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a free public symposium Jan. 31 in connection with the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex." Associate Professor John Gibert, chair of the classics department at CU-Boulder, will lead a discussion by a panel of theater and classics scholars in Norlin Library's Center for British and Irish Studies from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Gibert also will lead a symposium on Jan. 30 in the Denver Center's Stage Theatre from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 19. New results from the Cassini mission indicate the spacecraft was pelted with sporadic bursts of interplanetary dust as it approached Saturn last year, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder space scientist.

Editors: Photographs are available by calling Greg Swenson at (303) 492-3113. What began with a farmer's discovery of some pottery sherds in 1953 led to one of the most extensive and detailed excavations of an ancient Pueblo Indian community in southwest Colorado. Now a group of University of Colorado at Boulder students and researchers are working to reorganize more than a million artifacts that were unearthed during the extended dig begun by the late CU-Boulder archaeologist Joe Ben Wheat starting in 1954.

Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Greek Adviser Laura Strohminger met last night with student fraternity leaders to discuss the university's future relationship with the Greek system, including plans to shift rush activities for freshman new members from the fall to the spring semester. A change in the timing of rush was included among several campus expectations and support programs for fraternities and sororities outlined by Stump and Strohminger.