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NBC News correspondent Kevin Corke will return to his alma mater, the University of Colorado at Boulder, next week to give a lecture at Old Main Chapel. Corke will give the fourth annual John E. Holden Journalism Lecture, sponsored by the CU-Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 5 p.m. His lecture, titled "Saints, Scoundrels and Scribes: Covering the 2008 Presidential Campaign," will be followed by a reception in the Heritage Center on the third floor of Old Main.

An annual assistive technology conference co-sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder will highlight Web and media access in higher education and business as well as cutting-edge tools for people living with sensory, physical and learning disabilities.

Large-scale fires in western and southeastern states can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as some states' entire motor vehicle traffic in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The paper, titled "Estimates of CO2 From Fires in the United States: Implications for Carbon Management," is being published online in the journal "Carbon Balance and Management." Primary funding for the study was by the National Science Foundation.

A recent $350,000 grant from the Denver Economic Development Corp. is supporting new Math, Engineering and Science Achievement Centers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State University, along with a cadre of college student mentors who are working directly with students in MESA after-school programs at Colorado elementary, middle and high schools.

When combat veteran Matt Grove returned from Afghanistan and became a University of Colorado at Boulder student, he joined a growing number of college students who are also war veterans. To help determine the needs of this growing population of students and ease the transition from military to civilian life as a student, CU-Boulder has opened a new Office of Veterans Affairs.

An elementary school science project that spurred contentious school board meetings in Boulder six years ago and led to a national controversy dubbed "Barbiegate" has inspired a collection of academic essays about public discourse and democracy in action at the local level.

More than 100 Navajo weavings, contemporary and antique, will be sold on Thursday, Nov. 8, at the 22nd Annual Benefit Silent Auction for the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. This year's auction will be held at the Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building at the Anschutz Medical Campus, 13055 E. 17th Ave. in Aurora. Buyers may begin placing bids at noon and the auction closes at 7 p.m. Weavings, including pieces from Two Grey Hills, Crystal, Shiprock, Ganado, the Burnham area and more, ranging in value from $100 to $10,000, will be available for sale.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and First Lady Jeannie Ritter will be among the well-known participants gathering at the University of Colorado at Boulder Nov. 7 to celebrate the regionÂ’s rich literary heritage.

An exhibition of 30 images combining science and art created by University of Colorado scientists, students and artists will be on view at CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31. The exhibition, "Art in Science/Science in Art," is part of a growing movement in the art world in which scientific principles are illustrated in artworks. The exhibition will open at CU-Boulder with a public reception at Fiske Planetarium on Thursday, Nov. 1, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

A joint center of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, the Colorado School of Mines, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and industry has announced $500,000 in grants to 10 teams pursuing renewable energy research ranging from the solar conversion of plant material for fuels to genetic crop engineering.