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The physics behind time travel and antimatter and the impact light and radio waves have had on the modern world will be discussed in February during two separate presentations at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The CU Wizards show "Waves That Changed the World" will take place Saturday, Feb. 21, at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30. At 2 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30, the CU-Boulder physics department will present "Time Traveling With Physics" as part of its Saturday Physics Series. Both shows are free and open to the public.

Editors: To schedule an interview with Erik Weihenmayer please contact Ben Witherell at (303) 903-8824. Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind person to climb Mount Everest and author of "Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See," will speak to CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business students on Feb. 17 at 3:30 p.m. Weihenmayer will discuss his experiences and provide advice on leadership and how to achieve one's goals.

University of Colorado Head Football Coach Gary Barnett today announced that he has sanctioned four players for team rules violations related to recruiting activities. On Friday, Feb. 6, Barnett learned of one team violation in which player Chris Hollis took a recruit to an 18-and-over strip club in Boulder. There was no indication of under-age drinking, illegal activity or any violations of the Student Code of Conduct. The recruit was returned to the hotel at 12:30 a.m. in time for curfew.

The CU-Boulder Alumni Association is seeking nominations for the 74th Annual Alumni Association Awards, which honor faculty, staff and alumni from the Boulder campus. The alumni awards are among the most prestigious honors presented at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

An international research team including a University of Colorado at Boulder professor has mounted a deep-water search off the northern coast of Greece in search of a fleet of Persian warships presumed lost in a massive ocean storm in 492 B.C. The armada of warships is believed to have been sent by Persian King Darius to invade Greece, according to ancient historical accounts. The research team included more than a dozen Greek, Canadian, American and Finnish scholars.

Adam Hochschild, an author, editor and co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, will give a public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Tuesday, Feb. 10. Hochschild will present the lecture "12 Men in a Printing Shop, 1787: the First Great Human Rights Movement is Born," at 4 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel. The talk is free and open to the public. He will be on campus as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum.

Making jokes about a rape committed at gunpoint or a poor child's horrific death would be met with outrage in most cultures, but a University of Colorado at Boulder anthropologist says what appears to be tasteless humor in the slums of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, is really just a means of coping with everyday life.

A new study that aims to significantly reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired infection by providing clear data on the effectiveness of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) is getting under way at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The overall goal of the study, which is being funded by the N.G. Gilbert Foundation, is to quantify the effectiveness of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, or UVGI, in controlling hospital-acquired infections from opportunistic airborne bacteria and fungi.

James Watt, who served as President Reagan's first secretary of the interior and was a controversial figure among environmentalists, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Feb. 11. Watt will speak at 7 p.m. in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom, in a conversation with CU-Boulder history and environmental studies Professor Patricia Nelson Limerick and law Distinguished Professor Charles Wilkinson. The talk is free and open to the public.

The CU Heritage Center will present a talk on the lives of bats by Rick A. Adams, founder and president of the Colorado Bat Society, on Sunday, Feb. 8. Back by popular request, Adams will lecture and present visual images at 3 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is appropriate for all ages and is free and open the public. Adams will discuss his new book on "Bats of the Rocky Mountain West." He will demystify the "leather flutterers," including the long-time residents of the Old Main belfry.