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Joe E. Roy, II, has been appointed chief of police at the University of Colorado at Boulder effective Feb. 1. Roy was selected through a rigorous search process following the August announcement of Police Chief Jim Fadenrecht's retirement on Jan. 31. Fadenrecht became chief in 1991 and leaves after 30 years of service to the department.

The University of Colorado is preparing to implement the College Opportunity Fund in fall 2005 and has begun notifying students about the program at campuses in Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a public open house Jan. 14 featuring a live broadcast of the European Space Agency's coverage of the Cassini mission's Huygens probe descending onto Saturn's moon, Titan, via NASA TV.

The CU-Boulder campus will host a donation drive for Red Cross relief efforts in tsunami-devastated South Asia during the men's and women's basketball games on Saturday, Jan. 15. The men's team will play No. 2-ranked Kansas at 2 p.m. and the women's team will play No. 13-ranked Texas Tech at 7 p.m. Tickets are still available for both games. Volunteers from the Red Cross and CU-Boulder staff will be stationed around the Coors Events Center with buckets to receive donations. The funds will go to the Red Cross for its relief efforts in the devastated areas.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 9:20 a.m. PST on Jan 10. New ultraviolet observations indicate a Milky Way star is spinning nearly 200 times faster than Earth's sun, the probable result of a merger between two sun-like stars whose binary orbit recently collapsed, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder astronomer.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is one of six core academic partners in a new effort to study terrorism funded by a $12 million shared grant from the Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced the grant today at the University of Maryland, where the new research center will be headquartered. The new center is part of a consortium that includes CU-Boulder, UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of South Carolina and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

The Thai Student Association at the University of Colorado at Boulder will raise funds for tsunami relief efforts for four days during Jan. 10-14 at the University Memorial Center. With the exception of Wednesday, Jan. 12, the student group will operate a booth in the UMC from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. The booth will feature information and pictures of what is happening in Thailand as a result of the tsunami disaster, said Arunee Tanvisuth, an association member and a doctoral student in business strategy and entrepreneurship.

A study investigating whether protected public lands play a positive or negative role in the economic health of nearby communities will be presented at a free lecture Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. Ray Rasker, the author of the study, will talk about "Prosperity in the 21st Century: the Role of Protected Lands" in Eaton Humanities Building room IB050. Rasker is director of the SocioEconomics Program of the Sonoran Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes community-based strategies for conservation and development.

University of Colorado at Boulder physics Professor John Taylor, also known as the original "Mr. Wizard," will present a program titled "Why Things Move" Jan. 15 as part of the annual CU Wizards series. The free hour-long show will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law on Jan. 12 in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Students will be able to hear oral arguments in six cases. After the arguments have been heard, students will be given the opportunity to ask the judges questions. Presiding over the hearing will be the honorable Timothy M. Tymkovich, a 1982 graduate of the CU law school appointed to the bench in April 2003, the honorable Carlos F. Lucero and the honorable Robert F. Blackman.