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In recognition of International Conflict Resolution Day on Thursday, Oct. 16, the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a day of workshops and events that address the various ways in which discussion around conflict can lead to productive outcomes. Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson has proclaimed Oct. 16 to be Conflict Resolution Day on the Boulder campus.

Davian Gagne, an experienced social worker and outreach director, has been named the gender violence prevention and education coordinator for the University of Colorado at Boulder, a new five-year position that was created as part of the Lisa Simpson lawsuit settlement.

A free, daylong Safe Schools Regional Training conference will be offered to the public Oct. 23 in Fort Collins by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Key staff and faculty from the University of Colorado at Boulder partnered with colleagues from the University of Colorado Denver to administer a youth leadership initiative as part of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities' 22nd annual national meeting to be held in Denver Oct. 11-13.

The CU-Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication has received an $110,000 grant from the McCormick Foundation of Chicago to explore interactive, multimedia "citizen journalism."

A new graduate program in computational optical sensing and imaging is being established at the University of Colorado at Boulder this fall with the awarding of a $3.2 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has won a $450,000 grant to establish the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence, which will study and teach the relations between the EU and the United States.

Water resource managers may have to prepare for a warmer Colorado and a shift in the timing of runoff in most of the state's river basins, according to a new assessment of Colorado climate change by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State University.

The check was in the mail and it was big.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Energy Initiative, created in 2006 to help meet the world's sustainable and renewable energy needs, has announced a group of corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, advisers, scientists, policymakers and academics as members of its newly formed EI Leadership Council.