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An action plan for responding to campus issues related to alcohol and the Greek system at the University of Colorado at Boulder was announced Tuesday by Chancellor Richard L. Byyny in his annual "State of the Campus" address. Speaking at Old Main Chapel on campus, Byyny addressed a number of recent issues, including fraternity and sorority life, alcohol, athletics and sexual assault and harassment, as well as strategies for moving the campus forward in a challenging fiscal environment for higher education.

MEDIA TIP SHEET The price of oil produced in the United States, which reached a new all-time high of $50.47 a barrel on Sept. 28, won't drop back down to around $40 until at least summer 2005, according to University of Colorado at Boulder faculty member Jack Edwards. "We may never see the $20 per barrel price of the mid-1990s again," said Edwards, an adjunct professor of geological sciences and a former chief geologist of Shell Oil. Edwards spent 37 years in the oil industry before joining the CU-Boulder faculty in 1992.

Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, interim vice provost and associate vice chancellor for diversity and equity at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been appointed to the position on a permanent basis, according to Provost Phil DiStefano. Yoshinaga-Itano has held the position for the past year and has coordinated campus efforts to support programs and policies related to diversity and equity on campus, in addition to providing assistance for faculty, staff and students through the CU-Boulder department of equal opportunity.

The 2004 Celtic Representations Symposium, titled "The Rebellion of the Celts: From Goddess to Government," will be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 8 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the British Studies room at Norlin Library. The event is free and open to the public, and no registration is necessary. Seating is limited to 100 in the British Studies room, on Norlin's fifth floor.

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder has awarded three doctoral dissertation fellowships in religion, media and culture for the 2004-05 academic year. The three recipients are Alexandra Boutros, Mark Elmore and Bahiyyih Watson Maroon. Each will receive a $12,000 stipend from Lilly Endowment Inc. in Indianapolis.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business has announced the finalists for its inaugural Summit Award for Environmental Leadership including Albertsons Inc., Horizon Organic and the Rohm & Haas Co. The award will be presented to the winning company on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 11:30 a.m. in Macky Auditorium as part of the Sustainable Resources Conference taking place on campus.

Note to Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend without charge. To arrange, call Travis Litman at (303) 738-5633 or email Litman at sftp@colorado.edu . Exploring how federal legislation over the last 20 years has shaped the cable industry in the United States will be the focus of an upcoming conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law.

Rachel Silvey, an assistant professor in CU-Boulder's geography department, has been awarded a Fulbright New Century Scholars Award to study gender relations in Islam. Silvey was one of 31 scholars chosen from around the world to participate in the program and is the only recipient of the award in the state of Colorado. The team of scholars will focus on the theme "Toward Equity: The Global Empowerment of Women."

Trying to guess which Internet technology will be used to help offset the growing consumer demand for broadband service is the focus of a University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law conference to be held Sept. 29 from 3:15 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Fleming Law Building on campus. Titled "Searching for the Third Broadband Pipe," the conference will examine the rise of Internet-enabled applications that are being developed to meet the demand for broadband service other than DSL and cable modem connections.

Jeff Romine, a regional economist specializing in economic and demographic estimates and long-term growth forecasts for Colorado, has joined the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business as a researcher. Romine is working as a research economist at the Leeds School's Business Research Division and comes to the school from the Denver Regional Council of Governments, where he was responsible for all socioeconomic estimations and forecasts for the Denver region.