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A University of Colorado at Boulder student who lives off campus and ate bagged spinach is suspected of falling ill to E. coli related to the national outbreak of the disease, according to Wardenburg Health Center officials.

Editors: A PDF of the report summary is available by contacting Doug Nogami, Leeds School of Business, (303) 492-0786, doug.nogami@colorado.edu . Colorado has established industry and research resources that can be developed to place the state among the top 10 in nanotechnology, according to a study by the Business Research Division at the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business.

An independent journalist will present video and news reports from Iraq and Lebanon and a surgeon will discuss the medical aftermath of the Iraq war on Friday, Sept. 29, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Urban Hamid, an Arabic-speaking freelance journalist and author, will speak in Eaton Humanities Building room 1B50 at 6:30 p.m. He will be joined by Dr. Gene Bolles of Boulder.

A handful of University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates will watch from the desert when a payload they designed and built launches on the inaugural rocket flight from a developing commercial spaceport near Las Cruces, N.M., on Sept. 25.

A new research center focused on the controlled synthesis of nanostructures and their reliable integration into micro- and nano-electromechanical systems has been established at the University of Colorado at Boulder with a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The center will be known as the DARPA Focus Center on Nanoscale Science and Technology for Integrated Micro/Nano-Electromechanical Transducers, and is being hosted by the department of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Professor Emerita Joyce Lebra of the University of Colorado at Boulder will talk about her recent novel during a reception for her photography show, "Faces of Hawai'i: Diversity and Renaissance," Sept. 20 at CU-Boulder's Norlin Library. The reception will be held on the fifth floor of the library between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

University of Colorado at Boulder students will attempt to set a record for the world's largest hug in honor of Lynn "Gordie" Bailey Jr. during the Arizona State football game on Sept. 16. The attempt will be made during the first television time-out of the second quarter at Folsom Field and everyone in the stadium will be invited to participate. The "Gordie Hug" is being organized by the student groups Power of One and G.O.R.D. in honor of Bailey, who was a CU-Boulder freshman when he died from acute alcohol poisoning on Sept. 17, 2004.

At least one case of West Nile Virus has been confirmed at the Wardenburg Health Center of the University of Colorado at Boulder this summer and campus officials are urging new and returning students to take precautions. At least 32 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Boulder County this year -- the highest total of any county in Colorado -- and virtually all monitored mosquito pools in the county have tested positive for West Nile Virus, according to Wardenburg officials. Statewide, 151 cases have been reported including one death.

Michael Zimmerman, a longtime professor at Tulane University, is the new director of the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts. Zimmerman also was named the Eaton Chair of Humanities, and will teach in the philosophy department. His research interests include 19th and 20th century German philosophy, environmental philosophy and Buddhism. He replaces Professor Jeffrey Cox, who directed the center since 1998.

The 30th season of the CU Wizards series at the University of Colorado at Boulder will begin Sept. 23 with a show featuring an imploding 50-gallon steel drum and Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" played with a drill and wooden sticks. Michael Dubson, a senior instructor in the CU-Boulder physics department, will present the free program "Boom! The Physics of Sound and Air Pressure" at 9:30 a.m. in room G1B30 of the Duane Physics building. During the show, the audience will learn how sound waves are made, what air pressure is and what makes some sounds "musical."