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Editors: A news conference with Jeff Bezos will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 7 following his address. To set up a private interview with Bezos from noon to 2 p.m. on Nov. 7 contact Susan Kelley at (303) 492-2823. Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, will give a free public address at the University of Colorado at Boulder at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 7. The talk in Macky Auditorium is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Wardenburg Health Center will offer meningitis and flu vaccinations to CU-Boulder students on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Recreation Center. The immunizations will be available on a walk-in basis from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Twenty-five Buffalo Hug pillows will be delivered to Boulder Community Hospital's pediatrics ward and emergency room on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 1:30 p.m. by several CU athletes and coaches as part of a community outreach program of CU-BoulderÂ’s Office of Community Affairs.

An underwater breathing device created by two University of Colorado at Boulder researchers was named one of 18 semifinalists in Hammacher Schlemmer's 2000 Search for Invention Competition. The Pressurized Snorkel was invented by Igor Gamow, a professor of chemical engineering and well-known inventor of devices to enhance human performance, and by research associate Dana Ruehlman. Their patented device is as easy to use as a snorkel but enables divers to stay up to 12 feet underwater for several hours.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, according to Chancellor Richard L. Byyny. The NSF grant is designed to enhance recruitment, retention and support for minority doctoral students in the fields of science, math and engineering.

The University of Colorado at Boulder and Denver's CBS television station, KCNC-TV, are collaborating on an educational program and contest for Colorado fourth, fifth and sixth grade students that will air Nov. 6-17 at 4 p.m. on Channel 4. The series, "Convection Connection," features News4 anchor Larry Green, CU-Boulder physics instructor Michael Dubson and Alex Weaver, K-12 outreach director at CU's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

The Heritage Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host an art exhibition titled "Days of the Dead: Aztec Adventures of Cholo, Vato, and Pano" from Oct. 23 to Nov. 21 in the CU Heritage Center.

The image of a vicious killer with a hook for a hand, slashing away at his helpless teen-age victims, is one picture that springs to mind when talking about urban legends. Many absurd and scary legends end up in films such as "Halloween" or "Candyman" but others can be quite influential, according to Michael Preston, an English professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Preston says a good urban legend depends on how believable it is and a storyÂ’s circulation depends on how memorable it is.

The University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be the site of the 2000 Fall Boulder Campus Blood Drive. Open to the public, the blood drive will be held in the UMC West Ballroom from Oct. 30 through Nov. 1 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. CU-Boulder staff, faculty and students interested in donating blood can sign up for appointments at a table outside the UMC Forum Room Oct. 23-27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by calling (303) 492-5473 through Oct. 27 at noon. People also can donate blood without an appointment.

A $12 million University of Colorado at Boulder-built instrument package on the Cassini mission en route to Saturn has produced the first spectral images of Jupiter, including the planetÂ’s aurora and a gigantic glowing ring of gas encircling the planet. Launched in 1997, the joint NASA-European Space Agency Cassini spacecraft began making observations of Jupiter on Oct. 1. The CU-Boulder Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph, or UVIS, has been taking images in the UV portion of the light spectrum invisible to the human eye.