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A memorial service for former University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ President Roland Rautenstraus is set for Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 4 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus. Chancellor Richard L. Byyny is hosting the service and a reception immediately afterward in the Heritage Center on the third floor of Old Main. Both events are open to the public and to all ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder faculty and staff.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at BoulderÂ’s Women's Resource Center invites university students, faculty, staff and the public to participate in a candlelight vigil on Thursday, Jan. 29, in remembrance of Susannah Chase, who died Dec. 22 of injuries sustained in an assault Dec. 21. According to Katherine Moerke, director of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-BoulderÂ’s WomenÂ’s Resource Center, the vigil is intended to protest violence, and to help create a safe community. The vigil will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the corner of 18th and Spruce streets.

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder will offer several opportunities to enjoy gospel music during Black Awareness Month including The Boyer Brothers Gospel Performance on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 8 p.m. in the Grusin Music Hall, located in the College of Music. Dr. Horace Clarence Boyer, a Smithsonian Institution scholar, will return to Black Awareness Month to perform a rare concert with his brother, Dr. James Boyer. The concert is sponsored by the American Music Research Center in the College of Music.

A 30-minute documentary video produced by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder has received an award of distinction in a national communications contest. “The Little Kingdom: Central City, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥,” was recognized in The Communicator Awards 1997 Video competition with a second-place award in the history category. There were 2,912 entries from 47 states and five other countries in the competition, which recognizes outstanding work in the communications field.

Area youngsters will have the opportunity to learn the scientific principles of speed Saturday from a University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ faculty member who used the concept to create a new form of matter. ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ faculty members Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman attracted worldwide attention in 1995 with their creation of the long-sought Bose-Einstein condensate, a state of matter achieved by supercooling atoms to 20 billionths of a degree above absolute zero. Cornell also is an employee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

A new study by a team of researchers led by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder management Professor Joe Rosse finds that many job applicants can and do lie on personality tests to get jobs they arenÂ’t qualified for. According to the study, prospective employees fake their answers in order to make themselves look better in the eyes of the prospective employer.

Preparing international students to enter graduate-level business administration programs in the United States will be the topic of a two-day conference, Jan. 21 and Jan. 22, at the Economics Institute, 1030 13th St., in Boulder.

Richard M. Burridge, founder and CEO of the Burridge Group LLC in Chicago, has given the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder College of Business and Administration $1.5 million to establish the Center for Securities Analysis and Valuation. By endowing the Center, Burridge, a 1951 graduate of the college and a member of the Business Advisory Council, creates a lasting legacy of his 50 successful years in the investment world.

The ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Martin Luther King Day Celebration Committee, the United Campus Ministries and the Boulder Interfaith Council will host the 5th annual campus Martin Luther King Day Celebration on Monday, Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel. The celebration represents a unique learning opportunity for all ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder students, faculty and staff, according to Alphonse Keasley, director of the Minority Arts and Sciences Program.

A joint University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-NASA granular materials experiment flying on the space shuttle Atlantis Jan. 22 has implications ranging from geotechnical earthquake-hazard mitigation to safer grain storage. The payload includes three containers carrying fine-grained quartz sand commonly used in civil engineering experiments, said Stein Sture, chair of the civil, environmental and architectural engineering department and principal investigator on the experiment.