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New research from the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that areas of the surface of Mars may be protected from the full force of solar radiation by areas of intensely magnetized crust. The startling vision of Mars' magnetosphere is being explored by David Brain, a doctoral student at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and his research advisor, Professor Fran Bagenal, using magnetometer data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

Kathy King, a senior from Pittsford, N.Y., majoring in philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been awarded the Marshall Scholarship, a British grant that finances young Americans of high academic ability to study toward a degree in the United Kingdom. "It is a great honor for one of our students to win such a prestigious award," said CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny. "This is further evidence of the high quality of the university and its students."

The myths, astronomical phenomena and constellations of the sky in the Southern Hemisphere will be explored in the live astronomy show "Southern Skies" at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Dec. 7, and Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m.

The University of Colorado at Boulder honor code has met with the approval of several of its member schools and colleges and voting on the code will continue through December. While faculty in all schools within the university have not yet ratified the honor code, initial responses from those who have has been positive, according to Ron Stump, CU's vice chancellor for student affairs.

As the West faces an economic slowdown, the CU-Boulder Center of the American West is assembling a group of experts to examine the region's historical pattern of a boom and bust economy and talk about what the future might hold. Eight experts from a variety of disciplines will issue the results of a two-day discussion from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, in Hale Science room 270.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend either session on Nov. 27 or Nov. 29 at 9:30 a.m. A picture isn't worth a thousand words to Zuhair Mah'd. But Mah'd, who is visually disabled, still finds the Internet to be a valuable resource. In an effort to help students learn how to design Web sites that are user-friendly for people with disabilities, Mah'd will speak to undergraduate and graduate business students on Nov. 27 at 9:30 a.m. in the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business, room 301.

A University of Colorado at Boulder experiment will ride into orbit on a NASA space shuttle to explore gentle collisions between particles of space dust - a fundamental process in the formation of planets and the evolution of planetary ring systems. The payload, dubbed COLLIDE-2, or Collisions Into Dust Experiment Two, is part of the MACH-1 payload currently scheduled for launch on the space shuttle Endeavour on Nov. 29. COLLIDE-2 continues the research into the dust collisions where its predecessor, COLLIDE, left off in April 1998.

Calendar Item Fiske Planetarium Presents "Season of Light" Fiske Planetarium will explore the origins of traditions such as menorah candles, solstice bonfires, mistletoe and the Christmas star during "Season of Light," a holiday star show. The program will be shown on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons during the holiday season. The Friday shows are Nov. 30, Dec. 14 and Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and the Saturday shows are Dec. 1, Dec. 8, Dec. 15 and Dec. 22 at 2 p.m.

Editors: The public is invited to a booksigning and reception for Professor Erika Doss in the CU-Boulder Fine Arts Gallery at 5 p.m. on Nov. 28. The event is sponsored by the fine arts department and the CU Book Store. Why was Life magazine so wildly popular and influential? Erika Doss, professor of art history and director of the American Studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, set out to explore those questions in "Looking at Life Magazine," the first book to take a critical look at the magazine from different points of view.

Note to Editors: Reporters are invited to attend a reception at the downtown Denver law offices of Holme Roberts & Owen at 1700 Lincoln St., Suite 4100, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 27. Representatives from the CBA, the specialty bar associations, the CU and DU law schools and the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals will attend. The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law and the Colorado Bar Association Diversity in the Legal Profession Committee today announced the development of a new minority mentor program.