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Internationally known conflict resolution expert and best-selling author William Ury will give a public talk on resolving conflicts peacefully on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 1B50 on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. Ury, who co-founded Harvard University's Program on Negotiation where he currently directs the Global Negotiation Project, is the author of the book "The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes" and the five-million-copy best-seller "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In."

The University of Colorado Foundation board of trustees and board of directors announced the election of five new board members and the re-election of seven returning board members. Richard E. Engebretson has been elected to the board of directors. He will join Mary Lee Beauregard, Richard M. Burridge Sr. and Andrea C. Dikeou, who have been re-elected to both the board of directors and the board of trustees.

High school students interested in exploring engineering as a field of study are invited to attend a free, one-day program Oct. 13 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The CU Engineering Sampler will be held from 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. at the Engineering Center on the CU-Boulder campus. The program is open to high school juniors and seniors, as well as parents and guidance counselors.

More than 5,000 alumni of the University of Colorado at Boulder's art and art history department have been invited to a farewell "TOAST" exhibition in the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building on Oct. 5-6. The exhibition is in recognition of the building's impending demolition and is free and open to the public. The exhibition will include a reception on Oct. 5 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and public viewing on Oct. 6 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Several artists have created exhibits in rooms of the now empty building.

William "Bud" Davis, author of the newly released book "Glory Colorado! Volume II: A History of the University of Colorado, 1963-2000," will be on the CU-Boulder campus Thursday and Saturday for two public book signings. Davis will sign copies of the 900-page book Thursday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the CU Book Store, located in the University Memorial Center at Broadway and Euclid Avenue. The Saturday signing is during halftime at the CU vs. Oklahoma game, which starts at 11:30 a.m. The Saturday signing will be in Folsom Stadium, Club Level.

University of Colorado at Boulder sophomore Kyle DeLapp, who recently was awarded the Carnegie Medal for saving four youngsters from drowning in Florida, will meet Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Leeds School of Business Dean Dennis Ahlburg on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 10 a.m. in the chancellor's office at 914 Broadway.

High levels of nutrients used in farming and ranching activities fuel parasite infections that have caused highly publicized frog deformities in ponds and lakes across North America, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's 2007 Homecoming festivities begin Thursday with a free Japanese Music and Dance recital at 7:30 p.m. in Grusin Music Hall and end Sunday with a community cleanup at several city locations.

A new version of "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg," a film by University of Colorado at Boulder film instructor Jerry Aronson chronicling the life of the iconoclastic Beat Generation poet, is gaining positive reviews in national publications.

The University of Colorado at Boulder welcomed a freshman class of 5,555 students this fall, 62 students shy of last year's record-setting freshman class of 5,617. The entering 2007 freshman class follows a two-year increase in freshman applications of 16 percent. Fall 2007 census figures announced today show that overall enrollment at CU-Boulder changed little from fall 2006. The campus enrolled 28,988 degree-seeking students this fall, 46 more than last year and an increase of 0.1 percent.