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CU-Boulder students, faculty, staff and community members are encouraged to dust off their bicycles and get ready to ride to the first CU Bicycle Bash Featuring Buff Bus Biodiesel on Wednesday, April 2. The CU-Boulder Environmental Center and Parking and Transportation Services are sponsoring the bash from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the University Memorial Center's Dalton Trumbo Fountain Court. The bash will feature the unveiling of the new Buff Bus Biodiesel project, the University of Colorado Credit Union bike loan program and the CU Student Bike Rental Program.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Friends of the Libraries will present "Artists' Books Revealed: Personal Lives and Wild Imaginations" on March 25. The event is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Center for British Studies on the fifth floor of Norlin Library at CU-Boulder. Entrance to the library will be through the west doors. A preview exhibit of artists' books will be on display at 6 p.m. in Norlin's Special Collections Department. A reception will follow the program, which is part of the Friends' annual Treasures series.

Employer recruiting on college campuses continues to decline and jobs for new college graduates remain scarce, said job placement officials at the University of Colorado at Boulder. CU-Boulder's career fairs and on-campus interviewing have slumped along with universities all over the country, said career services Director Gordon Gray. The number of employers interviewing on campus fell from 177 in the fall of 2000 to 92 in 2001. This past fall, it shrank to 82.

A public lecture on "America At War: What Happens Next?" will be presented by Professor Roland Paris of the University of Colorado at Boulder at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19. The lecture will cover the impact of the Iraq crisis on America's relations with the rest of the world. It will be free and will be held in room 142 of the Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building on the CU-Boulder campus.

University of Colorado at Boulder student Julia Massey, one of the top students on the fall 2002 dean's list for the College of Arts and Sciences, is following her dream of becoming a primatologist, a dream inspired by an article she read on Jane Goodall when she was in seventh grade. Massey, who currently holds a 3.78 grade-point average, has been on the dean's list every semester since she started attending CU-Boulder in 2001. Originally from Catonsville, Md., Massey chose CU-Boulder to accomplish the first step in pursuing her career goals.

Denver-Boulder area media are invited to a workshop sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder examining global glacier shrinkage. The workshop, which began March 16, is at the Boulder Inn Best Western at 770 28th St. The event, which runs through March 18, is not open to the public.

The Colorado Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law on Tuesday, March 18, from 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Lawyers and students are encouraged to attend the event because the presiding judges will take questions from the audience after oral arguments.

CU-Boulder student Ryan Van Duzer will travel to the Dominican Republic to spend his spring break living and working in an orphanage. Van Duzer is traveling with 35 people from a group called Orphanage Outreach based in Scottsdale, Ariz., and will spend March 22-29 in Esperanza, Dominican Republic.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Graduate School, considered one of the top graduate schools in the nation by rankings, has received another feather in its cap from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Editors Note: To arrange interviews or photographs at Base Line Middle School, please contact Mary Jo Bode at (303) 442-3580. For other questions contact Mike Liquori at (303) 492-3117 in the CU-Boulder News Services Office. Boulder middle school students this spring will study a Tony Award winning play about ethical, moral and personal dilemmas surrounding the creation of the first nuclear bomb as part of a partnership with the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts.