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Editors: In most cases, reporters can arrange meetings with these business leaders by calling Professor John Hess at (303) 492-7800. Top executives from Hertz Corp., Seagate Technologies, Estee Lauder and 10 other leading companies will discuss lessons learned from their successful business careers with University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ students at lectures throughout the fall semester. John Hess, a professor of marketing at the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ College of Business, invites highly successful CEOs and entrepreneurs to speak as part of his Profiles in American Enterprise course.

A powerful X-ray telescope successfully tested by University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and NASA scientists is expected to exceed the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope by 300,000 times, allowing astrophysicists to peer down the mouths of voracious black holes.

Editors: Werner Herzog will speak in a public forum in Benson Earth Sciences Building, Thursday, Sept. 21, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., in room 180. He also will speak at a public showing of two of his films, Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in Muenzinger Auditorium. World-renowned German film director Werner Herzog will visit the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus Sept. 19-21 as a guest of the "World Affairs Athenaeum" program.

Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded $743,000 to the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ School of Journalism and Mass Communication for a research project on media, religion and culture. Acting Dean Stewart Hoover and Research Associate Lynn Schofield Clark are the co-principal investigators of the project, which is one of the largest interview-based efforts to study media use in the family in the country. The grant will allow the two faculty members to continue their research.