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A host of prominent legal scholars, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will gather at the CU-Boulder School of Law Jan. 24-25 to discuss the legal career of former Justice Byron White. Titled "Justice White and the Exercise of Judicial Power," the 10th Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference will be held at the Fleming Law Building on the Boulder campus. All presentations are open to the public but a registration fee is required. Fees are $5 for CU alumni and higher for others.

The best and brightest of Denver's traditionally under-represented students will soon be enrolling at a new high-tech high school, and qualified graduates will be guaranteed admission to the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Denver School of Science and Technology, which will enroll its first ninth grade class in September 2004, has partnered with both the CU-Boulder Office of Admissions and the university's Pre-Collegiate Development Program to help increase the number of promising first-generation college students, women and minorities to attend college.

An internationally known archaeologist and celebrated storyteller will share his knowledge of the ancient people and pottery of the southwestern United States and the Philippines during a Jan. 25 free public lecture and slide presentation at the University of Colorado at Boulder. William Longacre, who was honored by the American Anthropological Association as the Distinguished Archaeologist of 2001, will make his presentation at 4 p.m. in room 270 of the Hale Science Building. He is the 2003 CU-Boulder Department of Anthropology Distinguished Archaeologist.

University of Colorado at Boulder astronomers have discovered what they believe to be dozens of potential stellar cocoons within a giant star-forming region that may harbor disks of dust and gas that could one day form planetary systems. "This is the first large population of so-called 'proplyd' objects to be found outside of the Orion Nebula, the closest region to Earth known to be forming massive stars," said CU-Boulder postdoctoral researcher Nathan Smith of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy.

Time travel and antimatter are often the subjects of sci-fi fantasy, but the real physics behind these and other concepts will be discussed Jan. 11 when the University of Colorado at Boulder physics department presents its free Saturday Physics Series lecture. "Time Traveling with Physics," a presentation by Professor Patricia Rankin, will begin at 2 p.m. in room G1B20 of the Duane Physics and Astrophysics building on the CU-Boulder campus.

When Earth's sun expands into a red giant star in roughly five billion years, long after Earth has become uninhabitable, the hydrogen core will be burned out and the bloated outer shell will be cool and murky.

Carlos García, director of the University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been elected to a two-year term as member-at-large of the Board of Trustees for the Association of College Unions International. The appointment begins in March 2004 at the conclusion of the annual national conference in Washington, D.C.

The connections between work, energy, heat and temperature will be explained during the Saturday, Jan. 18, CU Wizards show on "Heat, Temperature and Absolute Zero." Paul Beale, a physics professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will present the show at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30. The show, aimed primarily at students in grades five through nine, is free and open to the public.

Habitat loss in the West and what people can do about it will be addressed by CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Sharon Collinge as part of the Chancellor's Community Lecture Series on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Her talk will be from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House at 900 Baseline Road in Boulder and is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have found, ironically, that two pollutants -- carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons emitted from agricultural forest trees -- offset each other somewhat in mitigating air quality problems. Carbon dioxide, believed by scientists to be a major factor in greenhouse warming, has been shown to reduce "agriforest" emissions of hydrocarbons that contribute to ground-based ozone pollution, according to CU-Boulder doctoral candidate Todd Rosenstiel of the environmental, population and organismic, or EPO, biology department.