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Joan Padilla, Attorney General's office, Landa Heys, Center for Study and Prevention of Violence, CU-Boulder, Christie McElhinney, The Colorado Trust, Denver--Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar, John R. Moran, Jr., president of The Colorado Trust, and Dr. Delbert Elliott, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at CU-Boulder (Violence Prevention Center), announced efforts to help Colorado schools and communities prevent youth violence. These new efforts are:

The ends often do justify the means -- at least when it comes to political elections. That's the conclusion of a recent study conducted by psychologists at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In the study, Professors Lyle Bourne and Charles Judd, along with graduate student Noelle LaVoie, found that the public's judgment of a politician's ethical conduct during an election may depend on the subsequent success or failure of his or her policies.

Note to Editors: Hicke will present results of the study on Friday, June 1, at the AGU meeting in Boston. The AGU Press Room telephone number is (617) 954-3138. An analysis of vegetation growth in North America between 1982 and 1998 using satellite observations indicates a significant increase in the rate at which carbon is being taken up by plants, according to a new study.

The myths, astronomical phenomena and constellations of the sky in the Southern Hemisphere will be explored in a live astronomy show at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, June 8, at 8 p.m. Deidre Brucker, a CU-Boulder senior majoring in computer science, and Sanlyn Buxner, a recent CU graduate who now works at Fiske Planetarium, will present "Southern Skies."

Longtime education faculty member Lorrie Shepard has been named dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The appointment is pending approval by the Board of Regents at its budget retreat meeting on May 30 and will be effective June 1 if approved. Shepard will take over the post vacated by Dean William Stanley who resigned in April to accept the education dean position at the University of Redlands in Redlands, Calif.

The CU-Boulder College of Business Dean Steven Manaster has appointed five new members to the college's Business Advisory Council, all accomplished executives who will bring invaluable experience to their roles of advising the school's administration. The advisory council members are Marvin Gill, Richard Knowlton, Paul Larkins, Thomas Lewis and John Lillicrop.

The Graduate School of Business at CU-Boulder has been selected to join a group of colleges and universities, including Stanford and Yale, that participate in the MBA Enterprise Corps, which provides long-term assistance to companies in developing economies. Through the MBA Enterprise Corps, graduates of the University of Colorado at Boulder MBA program will have the opportunity to apply their business knowledge while helping to improve the economic condition of companies in developing countries such as Bulgaria or Kazakhstan.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder is still accepting applications for the 34th annual High School Honors Institute as well as a new opportunity with the Royal Academy of Engineering's "Headstart" program at the University of Southampton, England. Both programs are intended to introduce the field of engineering to students who have an interest in math or science. The application deadline for the Colorado High School Honors Institute is June 30, but students who want to attend the program in England must apply by June 1.

Editors: A complete schedule of events is posted on the NRLC home page at www.colorado.edu/Law/NRLC . What has been accomplished in the field of water law and science during the past 20 years? Or, more importantly, what has not? Those questions and others will be discussed at the 22nd annual CU-Boulder Natural Resources Law Center's Summer Conference to be held June 13-15 at CU's Fleming Law building in Boulder.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have developed a novel process involving the production of ethanol that could lead to a significant decrease in the cost of renewable fuel.