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The discovery of 10,300-year-old human remains in a southeast Alaska island cave in 1996 provided new insights into the lives of ancient people and helped cement a partnership between local tribes and scientists. University of Colorado at Boulder Professor James Dixon was a lead researcher who studied the bones, the earliest human skeletal remains ever found in Alaska or Canada. In the project's early days, Dixon recognized the significance of the cooperation between the Tlingit and Haida tribes, scientists and government officials.

University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor Brian DeLay is featured in a two-hour television special titled "The Mexican-American War" premiering Friday, Sept. 29, at 6 p.m. MDT on The History Channel. Hosted by boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya, the program tells the story of the controversial war and includes re-creations of its key battles based on notes and memoirs from soldiers who fought on both sides of the conflict 160 years ago.

Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North will give the keynote address during the annual conference of the International Society of New Institutional Economics to be hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder Sept. 21-24.

A University of Colorado at Boulder student who lives off campus and ate bagged spinach is suspected of falling ill to E. coli related to the national outbreak of the disease, according to Wardenburg Health Center officials.

Editors: A PDF of the report summary is available by contacting Doug Nogami, Leeds School of Business, (303) 492-0786, doug.nogami@colorado.edu . Colorado has established industry and research resources that can be developed to place the state among the top 10 in nanotechnology, according to a study by the Business Research Division at the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business.

An independent journalist will present video and news reports from Iraq and Lebanon and a surgeon will discuss the medical aftermath of the Iraq war on Friday, Sept. 29, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Urban Hamid, an Arabic-speaking freelance journalist and author, will speak in Eaton Humanities Building room 1B50 at 6:30 p.m. He will be joined by Dr. Gene Bolles of Boulder.

A handful of University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates will watch from the desert when a payload they designed and built launches on the inaugural rocket flight from a developing commercial spaceport near Las Cruces, N.M., on Sept. 25.

A new research center focused on the controlled synthesis of nanostructures and their reliable integration into micro- and nano-electromechanical systems has been established at the University of Colorado at Boulder with a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The center will be known as the DARPA Focus Center on Nanoscale Science and Technology for Integrated Micro/Nano-Electromechanical Transducers, and is being hosted by the department of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Professor Emerita Joyce Lebra of the University of Colorado at Boulder will talk about her recent novel during a reception for her photography show, "Faces of Hawai'i: Diversity and Renaissance," Sept. 20 at CU-Boulder's Norlin Library. The reception will be held on the fifth floor of the library between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

University of Colorado at Boulder students will attempt to set a record for the world's largest hug in honor of Lynn "Gordie" Bailey Jr. during the Arizona State football game on Sept. 16. The attempt will be made during the first television time-out of the second quarter at Folsom Field and everyone in the stadium will be invited to participate. The "Gordie Hug" is being organized by the student groups Power of One and G.O.R.D. in honor of Bailey, who was a CU-Boulder freshman when he died from acute alcohol poisoning on Sept. 17, 2004.