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Learning how light is created and destroyed will be the subject of the CU Wizard show titled “Light, Lifesavers and Fireflies” on Saturday, April 26, presented by CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ chemistry Assistant Professor Kathy Rowlen. “We will explore everything from fireflies to fireworks,” said Rowlen, who will present the show at 9:30 a.m. in room 140 of the Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building next to the University Memorial Center Fountain Court.

The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Science Discovery program will host a night of family entertainment featuring a CU Wizard Show and a Square Dance Extravaganza from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 19 at the First Congregational Church of ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. Proceeds from the event will benefit Science Discovery, an outreach program of CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ that offers science presentations to young people through field trips, workshops, wilderness camps and other programs.

Five finalists for dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ will begin campus visits on Sunday, April 13. Following campus visits by each of the five finalists the search committee, chaired by Engineering Dean Ross Corotis, will make its final recommendation on the position to Wallace Loh, vice chancellor for academic affairs. The finalists, their current positions and the dates of their campus visits are:

Edward C. Stone, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and internationally known planetary scientist, will lecture at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ April 15 in a talk titled “The Search for Life Elsewhere.” Stone has served as the project scientist for NASAÂ’s Voyager mission since 1972 and coordinated the efforts of 11 teams of scientists in their studies of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. As the lead U.S. center for the robotic exploration of the solar system, JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology.