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Donna Gerren, engineering instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has received the 2007 Faculty Advisor Award presented by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the organization's January meeting in Reno, Nev. The award was presented to Gerren during the 2007 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit Jan. 8-11. Gerren was honored "for outstanding and sustained commitment and enthusiasm for student education and involvement in the AIAA Student Branch at the University of Colorado at Boulder."

Ken Adelman, a former United Nations ambassador and arms control director for the Reagan administration and an adviser to the U.S. Department of Defense, will participate in a series of panel discussions on political intrigue and family dysfunction in Shakespeare's "King Lear." The University of Colorado at Boulder and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts will co-host the panels on Jan. 28 and 29.

A University of Colorado at Boulder faculty member has received a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop new technologies to improve the performance and economics of clean power generation systems. The grant received by Christine Hrenya, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, is aligned with the goals of FutureGen, a 10-year project aimed at creating the world's first coal plant with near-zero emissions.

University of California, Berkeley anthropologist Margaret Conkey, one of the world's leading authorities on Stone Age art and artifacts from ice age Europe, will give a lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Saturday, Feb. 3.

Nine University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral programs have been ranked high in a faculty productivity index featured in the Jan. 12 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, including the geography department, which ranked second in the nation. Other CU-Boulder programs ranked in the top 10 included physical oceanography (4), communication (6), cognitive science (7), atmospheric sciences (8), chemical engineering (8), biomedical engineering (9), civil and environmental engineering (9) and aeronautical and aerospace engineering (10).

Companies announcing the purchase of advertising slots during the Super Bowl broadcast may get a slight boost in their stock prices, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. Margaret C. Campbell, associate professor of marketing, and Eric Hughson, associate professor of finance, say the announcement of Super Bowl advertising can help the stock prices of companies that have not recently advertised during the game.

The scheduled March 17 launch of Steve Swanson from Cape Kennedy, Fla., to the International Space Station on NASA's space shuttle Atlantis will bring the total number of University of Colorado at Boulder alumni who have flown in space to 17.

Nearly 40 years after his death, Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of national unity and peace are more relevant than ever, say coordinators of an upcoming University of Colorado at Boulder symposium that will focus on the slain civil rights leader's legacy. "Right now, with so much going on in the world and on campus, it's important for us to remember Dr. King's message," said Debra Frazier, a counselor and coordinator at the CU-Boulder Office of African American Student Services, part of the campus' Center for Multicultural Affairs.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Norlin Library will host a photography exhibit on the Sudan crisis by documentary photographer Ryan Spencer Reed from Jan. 22 through Jan. 28. "Hands of a Displaced Sudan: The Cost of Silence" is free and open to the public during normal library hours and will be exhibited in the Norlin Library HotSpot located in the southwest area of the first floor.

I know I join the other chancellors of the CU campuses, as well as the faculty, staff and students of our combined university communities, in expressing our gratitude at the long and immeasurable service of Hank Brown to the state of Colorado, and more recently to the University of Colorado. He has been a leader of character and vision at a vital moment in the university's history - perhaps its most vital moment. He has brought public confidence, esteem and a spirit of optimism to the entire university system and to all of our campuses.