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Members of the press are invited to watch the televised launch of NASA's space shuttle Discovery on Thursday, Oct. 29, at noon in the new Lockheed Martin Room in CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's College of Engineering and Applied Science. The launch will feature the return to space of former Mercury astronaut John Glenn and the launch of eight experiments and hardware developed by BioServe Space Technologies, which is headquartered at CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. BioServe is a joint venture between NASA, the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and Kansas State University.

Leo Radzihovsky, a 32-year-old assistant professor of physics at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, has won a prestigious and highly competitive $625,000 Packard Fellowship. Radzihovsky and 23 other recipients were cited by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as among "the most promising science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States." Other 1998 recipients included young faculty members at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Cal Tech, MIT and the universities of California and Chicago.

The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Career Services department will host a statewide minority career conference on Nov. 11. More than 50 employers, including Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, the Colorado Department of Corrections, Andersen Consulting and the Federal Reserve Bank, will be on hand looking for full- and part-time employees and interns.

Will Fleissig, a former ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ planning director, will speak on "Smart Growth: Practical Approaches to A More Livable ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ" as part of the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Chancellor's Business Community Lecture Series. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be in the main auditorium at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Public Library at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4. Attendees are invited to have refreshments with Chancellor Richard L. Byyny at 7 p.m.