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The ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder Heritage Center has extended its hours to increase time available for viewing of the current Glenn Miller exhibit, running through December, and all of the center's other permanent exhibits. The new hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., adding Mondays and Saturdays to the former schedule to accommodate football and other visitors.

Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been awarded the 1999 R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America. The award honors an outstanding discovery, scientific or technological achievement, or invention in the field of optics. Wieman and Cornell were cited "for their creative inventiveness and persistent ingenuity applied to the development of laser techniques for cooling atoms, which led to the first demonstration of Bose-Einstein condensation of an atomic vapor."

Four related studies from the laboratory of Assistant Professor Monika Fleshner of the University of Colorado at Boulder suggest physiological responses to stress from the brain, hormonal system and immune system are moderated by regular exercise.

Navajo star and constellation myths, including the story of the creation of stars, will be explored during a live astronomy show at the Fiske Planetarium on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. John Stocke, a ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences, will present "Navajo Skies" at Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder Hillel's Sheer Kef a capella group and the Colorado Hebrew Chorale will present "An Evening of Jewish Music" on Thursday, Nov. 4, marking the first time the music ensembles have combined efforts to perform in Boulder. The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center Forum Room, on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. The program is free and open to the public.

Gilbert White, distinguished professor emeritus of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will present the ninth Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture on Nov. 5 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. White will lecture on "Water Science and Technology: Some Lessons from the 20th Century," in which he will discuss the future integration of environmental policy with water management policy.

How does the future of Colorado’s tourism industry look? The fate of this industry — one of Colorado’s largest — will be examined at the 1999 University of Colorado at Boulder Tourism Conference. The conference, "Colorado Tourism: Coming Together," will take place Oct. 27-29 at the Colorado Springs Wyndham Hotel, 5580 Tech Center Drive.

Professor Dennis Mileti, chair of the sociology department and director of the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has received the 1999 Eric Noji Award from the World Health Organization. The award cited Mileti's "pioneering multidisciplinary teaching and research in disaster management." The World Health Organization is part of the United Nations. The award was presented on Sept. 19 in Hawaii.

Graduate students with degrees in Chinese from the East Asian languages and civilizations department at the University of Colorado at Boulder are getting positions at prestigious universities all over the nation -- a notable accomplishment for a small and relatively new humanities program. "The word is out that our program trains people very well and we are gaining recognition nationwide," said Paul W. Kroll, director of graduate studies in Chinese.

This Friday, Nicholas Cage and Martin Scorsese team up in the chilling movie "Bringing out the Dead" about a paramedic who is haunted by the ghosts of people he couldnÂ’t save. The film is just one in a number of so called "supernatural thrillers" that have been spooking the competition at the movie theaters this fall. Besides the fact that Halloween is drawing near, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder Film Studies and English Professor Bruce Kawin believes these movies are making it big because they play on millennium anxiety and tug at peopleÂ’s uncertainties about life after death.