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NEWS TIP SHEET CU-Boulder Research Associate Mark Serreze will participate in a NASA Earth Science Briefing in Washington, D.C., Oct. 23 on the worldwide impact of a reduction in Arctic Sea Ice over the past 20 years and a simultaneous warming trend.

Anne K. Heinz, dean of the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named chair of the University Council for the Learning Resources Network, an international association in continuing education. LERN is the largest continuing education association in the world with more than 4,000 members in over 20 countries. Heinz will lead the council of university continuing education CEOs and represent university continuing education to the association.

The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law will present alumnus Marvin Wolf with its most distinguished honor, the 44th annual William Lee Knous Award. Dean David Getches will present Wolf with the award Oct. 25 as part of this year's Back-to-Boulder homecoming festivities. The Knous Award is given to an alumnus in recognition of outstanding achievement and sustained service to the law school.

Ed Lu, a NASA astronaut and CU-Boulder alumnus, will return to Earth Oct. 27 following a six-month stint on the International Space Station with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, commander of the Expedition 7 mission. Lu and Malenchenko are slated to head back to Earth in a Soyuz capsule equipped with a parachute Oct. 27. The Soyuz spacecraft is expected to launch on Oct. 18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and arrive at the International Space Station with three crew replacements from the United States, Russia and Spain on Oct. 20.

Editors: A complete schedule of Assistant Attorney General Deborah Daniels' visit to Colorado on Oct. 20 appears below. A high-ranking U.S. Department of Justice official will visit Colorado on Oct. 20 to observe violence prevention programs recommended by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Assistant Attorney General Deborah Daniels will visit programs based in Littleton and Longmont throughout the day.

NEWS TIP SHEET A CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business professor who studies the impacts of gambling says Amendment 33 would override local community decision-making and does not clearly define the scope and scale of the proposed gaming.

Clay Johnson III, deputy director for management in the White House Office of Management and Budget, will give a public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday, Oct. 24. Johnson, who will be on campus as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum, will speak at noon in the Old Main Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

John Nichols, author of "The Milagro Beanfield War" and several other critically acclaimed books and screenplays, will be honored at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center of the American West. The center will present Nichols with its highest honor, the Wallace Stegner Award, during the event in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.

Society's growing need for expertise when faced with decisions involving science and technology has led to the creation of a new graduate certificate program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The science and technology policy certificate program will begin in spring semester 2004 and is open to all CU-Boulder graduate students. The application deadline is Nov. 14 and admissions decisions will be made by Dec. 19.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder continued their search in southeast Alaska last summer to pinpoint rapidly melting glaciers and ice fields that hold prehistoric human artifacts before exposure triggers their decomposition. For thousands of years, humans hunted on the glaciers and ice fields that cover what is now the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeast interior Alaska. During the summer months these ancient ice fields attracted caribou and other animals seeking refuge from insect swarms that blanket Alaska during summer.