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The mysteries of black holes, including what it would be like to fall into one, will be explored during two June shows at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium. CU-Boulder Professor Andrew Hamilton will present "Black Holes," a show intended for a general audience, on June 16 at 8 p.m. On June 17 at 9:30 a.m., he will present the CU Wizards show "Black Holes," which is geared toward students in grades five through nine. Both shows will be in the planetarium.

Kings living in palaces may have ruled New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a thousand years ago, causing Pueblo people to reject the brawny, top-down politics in the centuries that followed, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder archaeologist.

A Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership has been established at the University of Colorado at Boulder to honor the former CU president and mayor of Denver. The chair will guide a diverse array of existing campus leadership programs, Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano and Provost Susan Avery announced today. A search committee is being formed and the chair could be filled as early as September.

Mark Trahant, editorial page editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Pulitzer Prize finalist and a member of the Shosone-Bannock tribe, will kick off a series of talks on modern American Indian identity June 12 at the Chautauqua Community House in Boulder.

Exploring the legal and political dimensions that climate change will bring to the American West will be the focus of the CU-Boulder Natural Resources Law Center's 27th Annual Summer Conference. Titled "Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions," the conference will be held June 7-9 at the Fleming Law Building on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a four-year, $1.9 million bioscience education grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to fund programs benefiting undergraduates and K-12 teachers and their students.

Business educators from 39 states and several nations will attend a June 7-9 University of Colorado at Boulder conference designed to help tackle the complexities of teaching business ethics. About 200 educators are expected to attend the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business "Teaching Business Ethics" conference, sponsored by Qwest Communications International Inc. Educators from Puerto Rico and 14 countries including Afghanistan, Egypt, The Gambia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, South Africa and Spain are registered to attend the conference.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Buffalo Racing team finished 20th in a field of 140 entries at the 2006 Formula SAE engineering competition, its best finish in six years of consecutive entries. The competition, sponsored by Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler, was held May 17-20 at the Ford Proving Grounds in Romeo, Mich. A team from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, took first place and teams from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Michigan took second and third, respectively.

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A retiring history professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder has joined with colleagues and undergraduate students in the history department to collect 1,200 books to be donated to the University of New Orleans library, which was severely damaged by Hurricane Katina.