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At age 21, Jimmy Santiago Baca was illiterate and incarcerated in a maximum-security facility for selling drugs. Five years later, he emerged from prison with a passion for reading and writing poetry. Now a winner of the Pushcart Prize and the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, Baca has been called an heir to Pablo Neruda and one of the best poets in America today. On Nov. 5-6, Baca will give two free public talks in Boulder and Denver.

The University of Colorado Foundation at Boulder announced that the ChopHouse & Brewery has donated more than $4,500 from it's recent grand opening fund raiser to need-based scholarships at CU-Boulder.

University of Colorado at Boulder Provost Phil DiStefano has appointed a search committee to develop candidates for the position of dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The committee, chaired by Dean of Libraries James Williams, is composed of faculty, staff, students and community representatives.

A flower bud is a cup; a leaf is a plate. While most people tend to draw a clear distinction between artistic works and functional crafts, Eddie Dominguez, an assistant professor in the department of art and art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said he has always been interested in combining craft and fine art in multimedia forms.

The East Asian Graduate Association of CU-Boulder will hold its Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference beginning Friday, Oct. 26, on the university campus. The event will address cross-disciplinary issues of importance specific to students studying East Asia. The theme for this year's conference, "Creating Culture," will explore the definition of culture and its development, creation and many manifestations in China and Japan.

As the Internet infiltrates people's lives, it has changed the way businesses operate, stocks are traded and news is dispersed. It also is changing the face of the art world. Standing at the forefront of this change is Mark Amerika, a pioneer in the digital arts field and a University of Colorado at Boulder assistant professor in the fine arts department. Amerika, who last spring was named one of Time magazine's top 100 innovators for the new century, creates his online artwork with computer graphics, music and hypertexts in an ever-changing medium.

The CU-Boulder Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence will field calls coming into a toll-free information line about bullying at 1-866-NO-BULLY. The information line will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, with voice mail at other times. The service is part of the Colorado Anti-Bullying Project launched by Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar Oct. 24.

MEDIA ADVISORY Oct. 30 Press Conference, Demonstration of Advanced Visualization Technology set at CU-Boulder The BP Center for Visualization at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a new interdisciplinary research center in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, will unveil its state-of-the-art Immersive Visualization Environment (IVE) during a series of grand opening events Oct. 29-30.

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Norman Pace has been named a 2001 winner of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, often called a "Genius Grant." Pace, a professor in the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department, is the fifth CU-Boulder faculty member to win the prestigious award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago. Pace, 59, was one of 23 recipients of the 2001 "no-strings attached" funding.

The dance program at the University of Colorado at Boulder was recently named one of 51 grant recipients from the National College Choreography Initiative, a National Endowment for the Arts fund administered by Dance/USA. The $10,000 award will enable CU's dance program to host a notable dance artist on campus later this year.