DOING BUSINESS ON THE WEB: Lured by the prospect of reaching out to the corporate world without spending a lot of money, four of the world's top business schools have entered into a joint venture on the Internet. The University of Chicago announced that it was teaming up with Columbia University, Stanford University and the London School of Economics and Political Science to offer an online business curriculum to corporate clients through UNext.com (http://www.UNext.com/), a privately held Internet education company.

EXTRATERRESTRIAL BURIAL: An astronomy professor at the University of Arizona came up with a unique tribute to pioneering planetary geologist Eugene M. Shoemaker, who was killed in an auto accident in July 1997. Associate Professor Carolyn C. Porco, who was a graduate student of Shoemaker's at the California Institute of Technology, arranged for his ashes to be launched on the Lunar Prospector, a spacecraft sent to the south pole of the moon last July to search for evidence of water.

LEARNING FROM A LAWSUIT: A unique collaboration has been forged at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a result of a lawsuit being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 9. Journalism students are working with law students to provide in-depth coverage of the lawsuit, filed by three former Wisconsin law students. The suit, first filed in 1996, challenges the constitutionality of mandatory student fees because, the plaintiffs claim, they force students to give financial support to groups they might oppose on political, religious or ideological grounds, thus violating their freedom of belief, protected under the First Amendment. Thirteen students were selected to participate in the project, which includes writing regular articles for the student newspaper and distributing them to media outlets around the country. The students will receive two credits for this work.

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