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A unique, wind-driven kinetic sculpture will be erected outside ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder1s new Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory at the College of Engineering and Applied Science on Friday, Feb. 21, weather permitting.

A free informal luncheon for black faculty at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder is scheduled Thursday, Feb. 27, to celebrate Black Awareness Month. The luncheon will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room M549 of Norlin Library on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus. Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs Albert Ramirez and Dean of Libraries James F. Williams have invited all black faculty members to attend.

Wardenburg Health Center1s Sexual Health Education Program will observe National Condom Week Feb. 13-18 with activities to raise student awareness of sexual health. The week will begin Feb. 13 with an information table in the UMC Loggia staffed by peer educators who will distribute condoms, AIDS awareness red ribbons, educational brochures, candy and contest information.

A search has begun for a permanent director of intercollegiate athletics for the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder, according to Chancellor Richard L. Byyny. The position currently is held on an interim basis by Dick Tharp. Tharp became interim athletic director in August 1996 following the resignation of former Director Bill Marolt.

Soul food, a taste that can be traced to plantations in the early days of the South, will be featured Feb. 28 as part of Black Awareness Month at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder. Chef Willie Bradley, food service manager in Cheyenne Arapaho Residence Hall, will cook a variety of traditional foods including barbecued ribs, catfish, collard greens, black-eyed peas with ham hocks, macaroni and cheese, candied yams, corn bread and okra-tomato gumbo. Dessert will be Chef Willie's homemade peach cobbler.

EDITORS: This event is not open to the public but reporters are welcome to attend. ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-BOULDER DIVERSITY SUMMIT The second annual Chancellor's Diversity Summit at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder will be held Feb. 21. Activities will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center. Scheduled events include an address by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny on "Diversity, Civility and Campus Climate" and remarks by all three ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder vice chancellors.

The ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder spring blood drive will be Feb. 25, 26 and 27 from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in the University Memorial Center west ballroom.

"Megan's laws" will be argued pro and con by teams of University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ School of Law students participating in the annual Rothgerber Moot Court Competition on Feb. 12. The final round in the annual competition that provides training in appellate advocacy will be at 3 p.m. in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom of the School of Law. Seating is available on a first-come basis. Overflow seating with closed-circuit television will be provided in room 104.

Tom Cech, the celebrated 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner and chemistry professor at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder, will speak on "A New View of Life" Feb. 20 at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥1s Denver campus. The presentation will cover some recent scientific breakthroughs that give insight into the origins of life, the origins of viruses and how viruses may have gotten started, explained Cech. He also will discuss the interplay of teaching and research in his position at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥.

Richard Kraft, professor of education at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder, is the winner of a national award for his pioneering work in combining community service and teaching. Kraft received the 1997 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning from Campus Compact, a national coalition of 525 college and university presidents based at Brown University in Providence, R.I. The coalition honors one faculty member annually.