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NEWS TIP SHEET When jurors found Joseph Nacchio guilty of insider trading, they served notice that senior executives must learn to better manage their egos, according to Mathew Hayward, an assistant professor of management at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

On April 19, 2007 at about 9:00 PM the University of Colorado Police Department received an anonymous call reporting that a resident of the Kittredge West residence had weapons in his room, including “a gun.”

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are forecasting a one in three chance that the 2007 minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic region will set an all-time record low.

This week, our nation, our campus and campuses across the world are mourning the loss of students and faculty at Virginia Tech University. Yesterday, our community hosted a vigil in remembrance of those taken from us in one of the worst public acts of violence in our nation's history. Our entire country, and all of American higher education, has been hit hard by this senseless act, and campus communities everywhere are desperately trying to make sense of what has happened.

°µÍø½ûÇø 550 students from throughout Colorado will be on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus Saturday, April 28, giving performances, presenting multimedia documentaries and research papers and showing exhibits based on a historical topic. More than 260 teams of students in grades six through 12 will be competing in Colorado History Day, which is part of the largest national humanities education program in the country. The event is free and open to the public and will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center and other campus locations.

The changing patterns of land use in the American West, and problems of land use planning and growth management, will be examined in a talk by University of Colorado at Boulder geographer William Travis on April 26. Travis, author of the newly released "New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and Changing Patterns of Place," will speak at 6 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 150 on the Boulder campus. A book signing and reception will follow the free, public lecture.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has a long-established Emergency Response Plan to guide the campus in the event of a major campus emergency, according to CU Police Chief Joe Roy. "CU-Boulder has long recognized the importance of emergency planning and coordination among campus departments should a campuswide emergency occur such as the tragic incident this week at Virginia Tech," said Roy.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter announced Thursday evening (April 19) that Colorado will observe a moment of silence on Friday, April 20, at 10 a.m. MDT out of respect for those killed and injured at Virginia Tech earlier this week. Gov. Ritter spoke with Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia this week and agreed that Colorado would participate in the observance.

Family housing employees at the University of Colorado at Boulder will take part in a city and county flood exercise on "Flood Awareness Day," April 23, to practice evacuation procedures in low-lying campus areas.

Erwin Chemerinsky, a nationally known U.S. Supreme Court expert and lawyer for outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, will present a lecture titled "Protecting the Press" at the University of Colorado Law School. The talk will take place at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, and is free and open to the public. The lecture will be followed by a 5 p.m. reception.