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A new CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ research program, with resources rivaled in few places outside the nation's capital, allows doctoral candidates focusing on Third World development to apply for fellowships that support fieldwork and create a competitive advantage in the pursuit of prestigious national funding. DART, or Developing Areas Research and Teaching, is an interdisciplinary program established at CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ last year to foster research and teaching activities within the broad field of development studies.

Three national media experts will visit the School of Journalism and Mass Communication March 4-15 as Hearst Professionals-in-Residence at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.

The Friends of the University of Colorado Libraries will present a program titled "Nick Perito: Behind the Scenes with Perry Como" on Thursday, March 14. The event is free and open to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Theatre of the Imig Music Building on the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus. It will celebrate Como's gift of memorabilia to the American Music Research Center in CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's College of Music. Perito of Los Angeles, longtime musical director-arranger-conductor for Como, will discuss his professional experiences with Como and provide musical selections.

David Hawkins, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and the official historian of the Manhattan Project, died Sunday at the age of 88. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 2, in Old Main Chapel on the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus. "A giant hole has been created in all of our lives by his passing," said James Scarritt, CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ political science professor.

Editors: Students are signing up for University Village apartments today through 5 p.m. at the University Club, Garden Room, near the corner of Broadway and Euclid Avenue at 972 Broadway. Additional housing for students at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ is now available and more units are scheduled to be completed in the next two years, resulting in 1,379 new beds, according to Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs.

Scientists from the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences accurately forecasted two earthquakes greater than magnitude 5.1 while a paper describing the forecasting method was still in press.

Statistically significant differences among salaries of male, female and minority faculty members have disappeared at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ following five years of annual studies of salary inequity, according to Bill Kaempfer, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. Kaempfer also is a CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ economics professor. He has undertaken studies of the problem in each of the last five years.

Deirdre McCloskey, a well-known economist once known as Donald, will speak at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ on Friday, March 8, at 3:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 1B50. McCloskey, who is a professor of economics, English and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss capitalism, globalization and the middle class during her lecture "Bourgeois Virtue and Globalization." She will be on campus March 7-8 as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum. The event is free and open to the public.

Enrollment in a University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Islamic studies course has doubled, and the religion expert who teaches the class is preparing for even larger classes in future semesters. The combined upper-division and graduate course "Islam in the Modern World" has 31 students enrolled for the spring 2002 semester - twice as many as normal, according to Professor Fred Denny, chair of the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ religious studies department and instructor of the class.

The opening of a 51,000-square-foot addition to the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's University Memorial Center will be celebrated at a March 7 ceremony featuring live music and food. At 10 a.m., university officials will be joined by an ROTC color guard for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the unveiling of the north entrance to the addition, located just southwest of the Dalton Trumbo Fountain.