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Azul Casares, a co-founder of the firm Patagon, which is a pioneer in Latin American Internet-based financial services, will speak at the CU-Boulder College of Business on Tuesday, April 17. Patagon was valued at $705 million when Spanish bank Banco Santander Central Hispano acquired a 75 percent stake in the company in March 2000. Casares, a former customer relations executive of Patagon, will speak at 5 p.m. in room 216 in the business building. She will discuss her experiences as an entrepreneur and provide insight about international e-commerce.

Calendar Item Patricia Limerick, CU-Boulder professor of history and chair of the board of the Center of the American West, will present the second seminar in the university's Earth Systems Engineering Initiative on Tuesday, April 17. "Natural Allies: How Historians and Engineers Could Help Each Other" will be presented from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the CU-Boulder Engineering Center, room ECCR 245. The seminar is free and open to the public.

When CU-Boulder Professor Patricia Limerick was asked to teach a comparative history course along with two of her colleagues she said it afforded her a "great opportunity to return to the receiving end of the educational business." The capstone course offered to graduating CU-Boulder seniors is team-taught by two or three faculty members. Twice in recent years, Limerick, an American West historian, teamed up with Middle East historian James Jankowski and African historian Chidiebere Nwaubani to teach a class examining colonialism and imperialism in each of the three areas.

Patricia Nelson Limerick, professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and chair of the board of the Center of the American West, has been selected to receive the Hazel Barnes Prize, CU-Boulder's highest recognition for teaching and research. The prize includes an engraved University Medal and a cash award of $20,000, the largest single faculty award funded by the university. She will be recognized during summer commencement exercises on Aug. 11.

George Lipsitz, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego, will examine the cultural and political implications of the globalization of communication technologies in the 40th annual Crosman Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A seminar titled "The Role of Localities and States in Telecommunications Regulation: Understanding the Jurisdictional Challenges in an Internet Era" will be held April 16 in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom at the University of Colorado School of Law from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The forum will discuss how states and localities can play meaningful roles in telecommunications policy as jurisdictional boundaries are defined by telecommunications networks and traffic. The event is sponsored by the CU School of Law's Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program.

The Council of Graduate Schools in collaboration with the National Science Foundation has named University of Colorado at Boulder Vice Chancellor Carol Lynch the first Dean in Residence for the two organizations. She will be on leave from CU-Boulder for the one-year assignment, which begins in August. Lynch is vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has been an associate vice chancellor and a professor of environmental, population and organismic biology at CU-Boulder since 1992.

PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE: The time of this event has changed to 6 p.m. Please use this news release instead of the one sent on April 3. All other information is the same. John Wortman, general curator at the Denver Zoo, will visit the CU-Boulder campus to give a talk about gorillas in captivity on Monday, April 16, at 6 p.m. in Eaton Humanities room 150.

University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor Franklin Evans has been honored with the American Meteorological Society's highest award, the 2001 Henry G. Houghton Award. The Henry G. Houghton award is given annually to young promising atmospheric scientists who have shown outstanding ability in their fields. Professor Evans was presented the award for improving the existing knowledge of how light interacts with clouds.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, "Aesthetics for a New Millennium," April 20-22 at the Regal Harvest House Hotel and on the Boulder campus. All plenary addresses are free and open to the public. The conference will showcase the exceptional depth and range of literary and cultural studies today, according to Christopher Braider, chair of CU-Boulder's department of French and Italian and chair of this year's ACLA conference program committee.