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Will Fleissig, a former Boulder planning director, will speak on "Smart Growth: Practical Approaches to A More Livable Boulder" as part of the CU-Boulder Chancellor's Business Community Lecture Series. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be in the main auditorium at the Boulder Public Library at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4. Attendees are invited to have refreshments with Chancellor Richard L. Byyny at 7 p.m.

Two Halloween events sure to elicit screams and capture the essence of the season are the 2nd Annual Alpha Tau Omega and Pi Beta Phi Haunted House and the University of ColoradoÂ’s "Museum in the Dark," both set for Friday, Oct. 30. The two programs are designed for Boulder area youths to provide a safe but festive holiday.

University of Colorado at Boulder and Emory University researchers have discovered scores of ancient reptile nests in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park, believed to be the oldest such nests ever found. The fossil nests, dating to about 220 million years ago, are similar to modern day crocodile and turtle nests, said Stephen Hasiotis, the CU-Boulder research associate who discovered them. Hasiotis and colleague Anthony Martin of Emory University in Atlanta believe the nests extend the fossil record of reptile nests by roughly 110 million years.

"Hidden Legacies of Mass Incarceration," a discussion by associate professor Lane R. Hirabayashi and Gwenn M. Jensen of the University of Colorado at Boulder has been rescheduled. The event has been moved from Wednesday, Nov. 4, to Thursday, Nov. 5, at 3:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 235, on the CU-Boulder campus. The discussion will focus on the effects of internment and resettlement on the culture and health of second-generation Japanese Americans. Sponsored by the Center of the American West.

As part of "CU in the Community" month at the University of Colorado at Boulder, faculty, staff and students will be painting two youth shelters, helping to build a Habitat for Humanity house and hosting elementary students from Denver and Boulder on campus this Saturday, Oct. 24. Activities on National "Make A Difference" day, Saturday, will match faculty, staff and students who want to help out with programs that need support. They include:

The corporate culture of the Sea World marine parks and the impact of global telecommunications systems will be discussed in separate lectures at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 28 and 29. Both are free and open to the public. Dan Schiller, professor of communications at the University of California-San Diego, will lecture on "Transnational Telecommunications and the Global Reorganization of Production" on Oct. 28 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel.

A University of Colorado at Boulder-based space center will fly eight experiments on the Oct. 29 mission of NASA's space shuttle Discovery, which marks the return to space of former Mercury astronaut John Glenn. BioServe Space Technologies, a joint venture between NASA, CU-Boulder and Kansas State University, will undertake a variety of industry-driven, life-science experiments on the 10-day spaceflight of Columbia, said David Klaus of aerospace engineering sciences, BioServe's mission manager for the flight.

The murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is an outrage and unacceptable to our society. Shepard was beaten, pistol-whipped, tied to a fence and left to die by several young people because of his sexual orientation. Any student death brings sadness. A death caused by this particular kind of violence is appalling. As educators, we work diligently to promote acceptance between diverse groups. When violence and death occur because of hate against an individualÂ’s differences, it affects all of us.

On Halloween, the CU Wizards series will combine physics, chemistry and engineering to fascinate local children with a presentation titled "liquid crystals." Professors Noel Clark, David Walba and Joe Maclennan of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Chris Conery of Broomfield High School will teach children some of the basic concepts of liquid crystals using exciting experiments and lively visual displays. The presentation will be held Saturday, Oct. 31, at 9:30 a.m. in the Duane Physics building, room G-030, on the CU-Boulder campus.

A University of Colorado at Boulder professor is part of a science team working with a miniaturized, futuristic space probe capable of navigating its own way through space and powered by a solar-electric propulsion system.