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A new product that cools room-temperature drinks to ice cold in less than a minute is one of four business ideas created by student teams at the University of Colorado at Boulder that will compete for $5,000 on April 28 during an annual business plan competition held on campus. As finalists of the 2004 Ray and Dottie Joyce Undergraduate Business Plan Competition, the teams will make their final presentations before a panel of judges at 6 p.m. in room 224 of the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business.

Editor's Note: To arrange an individual media interview with Jim Barton, contact engineering Professor Dan Connors at (303) 735-7199 or Carol Rowe, director of engineering communications, at (303) 492-7426. Jim Barton, co-founder and chief technology officer of TiVo Inc., a pioneer in television services for digital video recorders, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Computer Science Colloquium Series on April 29. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Engineering Center Complex, room ECCR 245.

Lisa Peñaloza, associate professor of marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will show and discuss a documentary film she made examining the Mexican American community and the market on May 5. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House at 900 Baseline Road in Boulder. The talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

Bryn Weaver, a senior majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named a 2004 Morris K. Udall Scholar, according to Lori Goodman, special scholars adviser. Crystal Olin, a sophomore majoring in architecture, received an Honorable Mention award. The Udall Scholarship program is a prestigious national competition for undergraduates in fields related to the environment and for American Indian and Alaska natives in fields related to health care or tribal policy. Scholars are selected on the basis of academic merit.

Six alumni and a former fund-raiser for the University of Colorado at Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science were honored with the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award at the 39th annual Engineering Awards Banquet on April 16. The awards recognize alumni and special friends of the college who have distinguished themselves through outstanding personal qualities, knowledge and significant contributions in their fields.

NEWS TIP SHEET School violence experts at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder can discuss issues related to the fifth anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. The center offers assistance to all Colorado schools and communities, and across the nation, on the prevention of juvenile violence and safe school planning. Center experts who are available to comment on the Columbine anniversary are:

More than 80 student inventions ranging from new games and consumer products to devices designed to assist people with disabilities will be demonstrated at the ITLL Spring Design Expo at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Saturday, April 24.

The CU-Boulder Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business has appointed business leaders Tom Daniel and Robert Kaufman to its advisory board. Daniel is the CEO and founder of CadWest Partners LLC, a registered broker dealer. He also is president and developer of CTEK Angels, the largest group of angel investors in the Rocky Mountain region. Kaufman is a partner with Q Advisors and previously was president and CEO of netLibrary, a content and technology provider to institutional libraries and corporations.

Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, will present "News Media in the 21st Century: Are Journalists Becoming Irrelevant?" at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, April 26. The Crosman Memorial Lecture will be held at 5 p.m. in the Norlin Library British Studies Room, with a reception to follow. The event is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.

°µÍø½ûÇø 120 outstanding University of Colorado at Boulder students will be welcomed into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's largest and oldest academic honor society, at a special April 25 public ceremony to celebrate the CU-Boulder chapter's 100th birthday. CU-Boulder Honors Program Director Dennis Van Gerven will offer comments at the 5 p.m. event in the Glenn Miller Ballroom inside the University Memorial Center. After the ceremony, a reception is scheduled at about 6 p.m. The event is free of charge.