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Note to Editors: A complete calendar of events is available in a pdf file on the Web at http://www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/cma/events.htm . The University of Colorado at Boulder will offer a variety of activities on campus and in the Boulder and Denver communities in February in honor of Black Awareness Month.

The CU-Boulder Alumni Association is seeking nominations for its 75th annual Alumni Association Awards, which recognize and honor faculty, staff and alumni from the Boulder campus. The George Norlin Award honors University of Colorado at Boulder alumni for distinguished lifetime achievement in their work and community. The Robert L. Stearns Award recognizes outstanding members of the current CU-Boulder faculty and staff for exceptional achievement or service.

Editors' Note: Ron Stump will be available in front of Regent Hall at 5 p.m. to take questions from the media. A planned Feb. 8 talk by CU-Boulder Professor Ward Churchill has been cancelled due to security concerns, according to Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs. Stump said the decision to cancel the talk was made because there were serious concerns for the safety of students planning to attend the event and for Churchill himself, who reportedly has received numerous death threats.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium will host a live jazz concert on Valentine's Day weekend and later in the month will delve into the paranormal. The debut of the AstroJazz program will be on Saturday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m., while "The Paranormal Universe" show will be on Thursday, Feb. 17, and Friday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m.

A research team led by Thomas Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a distinguished professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has determined the detailed structure of an essential piece of telomerase enzyme, an important contributor to the vast majority of human cancers.

Professor Wendy Ashmore of the University of California, Riverside, one of the world's leading authorities on the archaeological study of space and landscape, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Feb. 12. Ashmore will talk about the new ways archaeologists are examining the history of ancient places like Stonehenge, the pyramids of Egypt, New Mexico's Chaco Canyon and the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. The 10th Annual Distinguished Archaeology Lecture is sponsored by the CU-Boulder anthropology department and is free and open to the public.

Note to Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend without charge. Most of the conference participants, including FCC Chairman Michael Powell, will be available for interviews. To arrange, contact Zachary Lange at (303) 735-5633 or zachary.lange@colorado.edu .

MEDIA ADVISORY Security will be tight for a talk by Professor Ward Churchill currently scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 8, at the University Memorial Center on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado. The talk, titled "Ward Churchill Speaks On His Book: Real Academic Discourse Outside the Filter of the Media," is scheduled at 7 p.m. according to the group planning the event, called "CU Students, Staff and Faculty in Support of Ward Churchill." The talk is planned for the Glenn Miller Ballroom in the UMC. Doors will open at 6 p.m.

In the past week, the University of Colorado has been at the center of a fierce debate that has raised a fundamental question: what are the boundaries of free expression, academic freedom and tenure protections? This question is especially salient in the face of the most offensive - the most appalling -- political expression, such as many of Professor Ward Churchill's comments in his essay regarding the events of September 11.

Six presidential science advisers are slated to speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005, beginning with a Feb. 14 event featuring John Marburger, current White House science adviser to President George W. Bush.