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The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Resource Center and Boulder Pride will present author Keith Boykin on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Benson Earth Sciences Building, room 180, on the CU-Boulder campus. Boykin will speak on being black and gay in America. The presentation will be a highlight of LesBiGayTransQueer Awareness Month at CU.

Cheryl Chase, founder and executive director of the Intersex Society of North America, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 19 and Oct. 20. Chase's talk, "Love With A Ruler: Intersexuality and Social Justice," will be presented on Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Building, room 150, and on Oct. 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, Aspen Room. A reception will precede ThursdayÂ’s lecture, and discussion will follow both presentations.

New evidence indicates while many Pueblo groups that abandoned the Four Corners area about 1300 migrated south to settle in northern Arizona and northern New Mexico, others made a swift, southernly migration up to 250 miles long.

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History will host a daylong science program on Thursday, Oct. 12th on the CU-Boulder campus for 120 high school students from throughout Colorado. This year only schools in Colorado have chosen to participate. The students, who are members of the Colorado/Wyoming Junior Science Academy, will be exposed to all forms of science, from biology to physics and zoology to engineering, said Lori Stott, director of public programs at the CU Museum of Natural History.

Curious residents of Nederland, Colo., watched recently as two men pulled what looked like a small sled through the town cemetery. Nearby, a woman inched her way among the headstones like an edgy tightrope walker gripping a 15-foot-long metal rod. For spectators wondering what was up, the answer probably surprised them. A University of Colorado at Boulder geophysics class armed with high-tech equipment was searching for unmarked graves and empty plots in the historic mountain communityÂ’s cemetery as part of a project undertaken for Nederland town administrators.

The University of Colorado at Boulder and Front Range Community College have formed a partnership to host a "Breakfast of Champions" for metro-area eighth-graders on Tuesday, Oct. 17. About 80 students and their teachers will have breakfast with CU-Boulder student athletes, coaches and faculty members in addition to FRCC faculty members. Coach Ricardo Patton will join basketball, cross country, track and field and soccer athletes to talk with the eighth-graders about the importance of education.

The need to remedy an existing shortage of research and academic space and modernize aging instructional and research space -- while preparing to meet the needs of an increasing state population in the future -- undergirds a 10-year facilities master plan for the University of Colorado at Boulder. Chancellor Richard L. Byyny presented the CU-Boulder Campus Master Plan to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) today in Aurora.

The Women in Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder has scheduled two Engineering Career Days for High School women this academic year. The all-day programs on Monday, Oct. 16, and Saturday, March 3, will introduce ninth grade- through 12th grade-women to the field of engineering and engage them in hands-on demonstrations and activities. Participants also will hear from professional women engineers, meet current engineering students and get a tour of the CU-Boulder campus.

Editors: Photographers are welcome to join the CU and ChildrenÂ’s Hospital representatives in the lobby of the hospital at 11 a.m. Chancellor Byyny and the athletes also will visit childrenÂ’s rooms on all three floors of the hospital. Two hundred patients at ChildrenÂ’s Hospital in Denver will receive their own "Buffalo Hug" pillows on Wednesday, Oct. 11, when the CU-Boulder Chancellor, coaches and student athletes deliver the cuddly companions to ChildrenÂ’s Hospital President and CEO Doris J. Biester.

Professor Delbert Elliott, director of the CU-Boulder Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, and Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar will speak to high school students in Denver and Louisville about youth violence on Wednesday, Oct. 11.