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Genealogist and private investigator Kathleen Hinckley will present the program "Be Your Own Detective: Locate Lost Family and Friends" on Sunday, March 19, at 2 p.m. at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder. The lecture, sponsored by the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Friends of the Libraries, will be held in the Benson Earth Sciences Building auditorium, room 180, and is free and open to the public. "Attendees will learn how to get started on researching their 'roots' or locating lost individuals," said Friends of the Libraries President Ruth Kahn.

The Wirth Forum on Religion and Nature in the West will present a public colloquium led by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Professor Patricia Limerick and Professor Mark Silk, director of the Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Connecticut, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, in the Hale Science Building, room 270. The talk at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder will be a synopsis of two days of conversation by a gathering of academic experts from across the United States.

Chancellor Richard L. Byyny has made a commitment to correct gender inequities in salaries among University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder faculty within three years. Each year since he assumed the responsibilities of Chancellor, Byyny has requested an analysis of salaries by gender, rank and discipline. The most recent salary analysis showed that white female faculty at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder earn an average of $1,123 less than their white male colleagues, Byyny said.

EDITORS: A complete ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Moving Company performance schedule for Lakewood, Lafayette, Niwot, Boulder, Salida and Denver is attached. The ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Moving Company, a dance group of six undergraduate dance majors from the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder, has started its spring performances and workshops to educate and entertain school-age audiences. "The purpose is to supplement the arts in the schools," said David Capps, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder assistant dance professor who instructs the group. "We'd like to bring dance in as a vital art form."

Two University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder aerospace engineering undergraduate teams are now in Houston, readying to fly on NASAÂ’s KC-135 aircraft from Johnson Space Flight Center to test the effects of zero gravity on experiments they designed.

Rebecca R. French, associate professor of law at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder, will give the 25th annual Austin W. Scott Jr. lecture titled "Law, Time and Identity" on March 8 at 4 p.m. in the Fleming Law Building. French will focus on how anthropological analysis, historical comparisons and legal system examples can provide new ways of examining time, identity and law. She will discuss how EinsteinÂ’s theory of relativity, George GamowÂ’s popularization of the expanding universe and our cultural "heroes" contribute to our new perspectives.

The results of a new study conducted in the rapidly expanding Denver metropolitan area indicates children living near heavily traveled streets or highways are at significantly greater risk of developing cancer, including childhood leukemia.

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Professor Emeritus Jack Kelso will present "Vocationalizing the Liberal Arts: Confessions of an Anthropologist," a March 8 lecture about the importance of introductory courses in anthropology and the impressions they leave on students. The lecture, co-sponsored by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Chancellor Richard L. Byyny and the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Office of Community Relations, is at 7:30 p.m in room 1B50 of the Humanities Building. KelsoÂ’s talk is part of the new "Campus Lecture Series" scheduled monthly through May in the new Humanities Building.

The Recreation Center at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder is instituting a new energy conservation project in partnership with Long and Associates, a private energy services contractor in Englewood. Upgrades, retrofits and modifications in lighting systems, ice rink and pool facilities, water meters, fan controls and utility tracking systems are expected to yield energy savings of more than $40,000 annually. Work is scheduled to begin right away and will take two months to complete.

A swing designed by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder engineering students for use by people with disabilities will be on display at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C., March 9-11, as part of an exhibit sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance.