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The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a free public symposium Jan. 31 in connection with the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex." Associate Professor John Gibert, chair of the classics department at CU-Boulder, will lead a discussion by a panel of theater and classics scholars in Norlin Library's Center for British and Irish Studies from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Gibert also will lead a symposium on Jan. 30 in the Denver Center's Stage Theatre from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 19. New results from the Cassini mission indicate the spacecraft was pelted with sporadic bursts of interplanetary dust as it approached Saturn last year, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder space scientist.

Editors: Photographs are available by calling Greg Swenson at (303) 492-3113. What began with a farmer's discovery of some pottery sherds in 1953 led to one of the most extensive and detailed excavations of an ancient Pueblo Indian community in southwest Colorado. Now a group of University of Colorado at Boulder students and researchers are working to reorganize more than a million artifacts that were unearthed during the extended dig begun by the late CU-Boulder archaeologist Joe Ben Wheat starting in 1954.

Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Greek Adviser Laura Strohminger met last night with student fraternity leaders to discuss the university's future relationship with the Greek system, including plans to shift rush activities for freshman new members from the fall to the spring semester. A change in the timing of rush was included among several campus expectations and support programs for fraternities and sororities outlined by Stump and Strohminger.

°µÍø½ûÇø 20 events in music, theater, art, dance and photography will be used to explore the relationship between art and mathematics as part of the 2005 CU Year of Art and Math project. The project is the brainchild of mathematics Professor Carla Farsi of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who enlisted help from many other campus departments and outside organizations including the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Boulder Public Library and Studio Aiello.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium will present three different space shuttle tribute programs on Jan. 21, 27 and 28. On Friday, Jan. 21, Fiske will present the "History of the Space Shuttle," followed on Thursday, Jan. 27, by "Memories of Columbia" and on Friday, Jan. 28, by "Memories of Challenger." Each show begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be presented by Rob Morris, an astronomy educator at Fiske Planetarium.

Editors: A drawing of the ATLAS Center building is attached and other images are available by calling Kevin Lee, (303) 492-1874 or Jeannine Malmsbury, (303) 492-3115. A "multimedia groundbreaking" for CU-Boulder's new $34 million ATLAS Center is set for Jan. 25 on the site of the former Hunter Science Building, northeast of the University Memorial Center at the center of the Boulder campus. The groundbreaking begins at 12:30 p.m. and is open to the public.

Note to Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend without charge. To arrange, call Zachary Lange at (303) 735-5633 or e-mail zachary.lange@colorado.edu . Examining the opportunities and challenges created by recent developments in information technology will be the focus of the University of Colorado at Boulder's inaugural Silicon Flatirons CIO Forum on Jan. 24.

An intensive University of Colorado at Boulder project charting long-term ecological changes in the high mountains of Colorado will continue for at least six more years as a result of a $4.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Planetary expert Larry Esposito of the University of Colorado at Boulder will share the "Latest News from Saturn and Titan" on Jan. 20 in the first of the "Newsworthy at CU" lecture series sponsored by the CU-Boulder Alumni Association. Esposito, of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will speak at 4:30 p.m. at the Koenig Alumni Center, 1202 University Ave. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public.