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A growing program at the University of Colorado at Boulder is working to combat what many experts call a looming crisis brought on by a shrinking pool of new K-12 science teachers. Known as the Colorado Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics Learning Assistant project, its goal is to improve introductory math and science classes at CU-Boulder and to recruit and train future K-12 science teachers, according to Valerie Otero, director of the program and an assistant professor in CU-Boulder's School of Education.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper will discuss homelessness and how it affects Denver and the rest of Colorado during a free public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School. The mayor will speak to law school students, faculty, staff, alumni and the general public from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, in the student commons on the second floor of the Wolf Law Building on the CU-Boulder campus.

Three journalists who have filed stories from Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait and an expert who specializes in keeping journalists safe in violence-torn regions of the world will participate in a panel discussion at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Surviving the Assignment: 21st Century War Reporting and the Age of Blackwater" will take place from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, in room 150 in the Eaton Humanities Building. The CU-Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication is sponsoring the event, which is free of charge and open to the public.

George Washington University Professor Bernard Wood, who has been working with Richard Leakey in Africa on early hominid research for nearly 40 years, will give a free public lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Saturday, Oct. 27. The presentation by Wood, who directs the GWU Center for Advanced Study of Human Evolutionary History, is titled "Recent Advances in Our Understanding of Human Evolution." The event is the CU-Boulder anthropology department's annual Distinguished Biological Archaeology Lecture.

Attending one of the nation's leading schools for entrepreneurs, many students at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business are interested in learning to run a business. One opportunity is the CU-Boulder student-owned and operated TREP Café, which re-opened for business this fall in the newly renovated and expanded Koelbel Building. Created with a loan from the Leeds School and the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, the café began operations in fall 2005 as a coffee cart in the original business building.

Nearly 5,000 visitors are expected for this year's fall Family Weekend at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which is hosted by the CU-Boulder Parents Association. The Oct. 19-21 weekend event enables parents and other family members to visit students on campus and to participate in activities including a golf tournament, musical performances, a 5K fun run and walk, a faculty awards ceremony and the Colorado-Kansas football game, which will kickoff at 3:45 p.m. Saturday.

New distance learning capabilities in the newly expanded and renovated Koelbel Building will enhance international outreach efforts at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business by providing the ability to export classes around the globe. "New distance learning capabilities in the Koelbel Building at the Leeds School will enable Leeds faculty and students to engage in joint learning experiences with compatriots of leading business schools around the world," said Dipankar Chakravarti, professor of marketing at the Leeds School.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business will formally dedicate its expanded and renovated home, the Koelbel Building, at 3 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 19, with a ceremony at the Koelbel Building's main entrance. "We are open for business, "said Leeds School Dean Dennis A. Ahlburg. "Inspired learning has a new home. The Koelbel Building invites curiosity and the search for new ideas with a wonderful environment that provides both inspiration and technological tools." The dedication is open to the public.

Traditional star knowledge of the Lakota, Pueblo and Navajo tribes will be discussed Oct. 19 at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium. “Native American Star Knowledge” will be presented by CU-Boulder Professor John Stocke of the astrophysical and planetary sciences department. Stocke will examine the Lakota and Pueblo traditions, including the methods used by ancestral members of the tribes to keep accurate calendars, which were used to time their religious ceremonies correctly.

A research associate of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder was a co-author in the groundbreaking international report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was named today to receive the Nobel Peace Prize along with former Vice President Al Gore.