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The first year of a two-year pilot program providing 5,600 ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder employees with metro-wide bus passes has ended with an 80 percent increase in transit ridership and a 5.7 percent decline in on-campus parking demand among eligible employees, an RTD survey shows. But that success must be surpassed in the program's second year with an even greater ridership increase and parking demand reduction if the program is to continue next year, according to Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration.

The ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Wizards Series at the University of Colorado at Boulder will present its first program of the spring semester, "The Biology of Muscles and Movement," on Saturday, Jan. 30. Professors Todd Gleeson and Mark Osadjan of the environmental population and organismic biology department will present the show in the Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building, room 140, at 9:30 a.m.

Professor Lawrence Young of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder Thursday, Jan. 21, on the challenges of human exploration of the solar system.

Professor Lawrence Young of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder Thursday, Jan. 21, on the challenges of human exploration of the solar system.

The second annual Career Fair for Graduating Students at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be held Jan. 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the University Memorial Center Glenn Miller Ballroom. More than 90 organizations are looking for graduates from all majors. Liberal arts students, as well as business and engineering students, are encouraged to attend. The fair is free and open to ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä students and alumni only. No registration is necessary.

The Minority Arts and Sciences Program (MASP) and United Campus Ministries at the University of Colorado at Boulder are sponsoring a tribute to Martin Luther King. Jr. on Monday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at the First Christian Church, 950 28th St. "This year we have a unique opportunity to expand our approach to celebrating Martin Luther King and his message. Rev. Smith and I are tremendously pleased about the new event," said Alphonse Keasley, MASP director. "There will be two hours full of musical joy and inspirational messages."

Robert D. Ballard, the renowned deep-sea explorer and scientist who discovered the sunken Titanic, the Bismarck and the Yorktown, will lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Feb. 3. Ballard, one of the world's premiere spokespersons for marine research, will give a free illustrated lecture on "Deep Sea Explorations" at 8 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. The 34th annual George Gamow Memorial Lecture is intended for general audiences.

Peering deep into a distant galaxy, astronomers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Colorado at Boulder have obtained a glimpse of what may be the youngest massive star clusters ever observed.

Erica Ellington, who became fascinated with the universe when she was only 5 years old, this week will take Fiske Planetarium audiences out to the distant star clusters previously visited only in science fiction. The assistant professor in the University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s department of astrophysics and planetary sciences, will present public programs on "Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe," on Tuesday, Jan. 12, and Friday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m.

A University of Colorado at Boulder research project on long-term ecological changes occurring in an alpine region west of Boulder will continue for at least six more years as a result of a $4.2 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation.