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Will Hobbs, an award-winning children's book author from Colorado, is the featured speaker at the 32nd annual Virginia Westerberg Children's Literature Conference on Saturday, Oct. 27. The event at the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to attract more than 200 people, including parents, teachers, artists, writers and storytellers. Registration forms must be postmarked by Oct. 20. On-site registration is available Oct. 27, but does not include the luncheon.

Editors: To arrange for photos, please contact Ricki Martinez in the Family Housing office at (303) 492-6384. The Department of Family Housing at CU-Boulder will unveil a mural in remembrance of victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy in New York City on Sunday, Oct. 14, at 6 p.m. at the Athens North Community Room on the CU campus. The Athens North Community Room is at 1855 Athens St.

TEAM UP FOR 'ABCs OF ENGINEERING' The University of Colorado at Boulder and NEWS4 are teaming up for a second consecutive year of science-centered educational programming this fall, bringing engineering concepts to third- through fifth-graders in a weeklong program titled "The ABCs of Engineering." From Oct. 22 through Oct. 26, NEWS4's Larry Green will explore the basics of aerospace, mechanical, civil, chemical and electrical engineering with the help of CU engineering faculty member Janet deGrazia.

CU PROFESSOR JANET DeGRAZIA Chemical engineering Professor Janet deGrazia spends summers at CU-Boulder wowing schoolkids and teachers by launching pencil rockets, dissecting rock-climbing cams and showing why bridges collapse to demonstrate Newton's Laws of Motion and other scientific principles.

The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado Thursday approved the Williams Village Master Site Development Plan, providing guidelines for developers to construct apartment-style student housing for 1,900 upper division and graduate students. Initial occupancy is expected on Aug. 1, 2003.

The 42nd Annual William Lee Knous Award, which is conferred by the Law Alumni Board of Directors to alumni in recognition of outstanding achievement and sustained service to the law school, will be presented to CU Law Alumnus William J. Hybl on Saturday, Oct. 13. The ceremony will be the highlight of the Back-to-Boulder festivities at the Fleming Law Building.

A town hall meeting on "America at War: Race, Religion and the Media" will be hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 5:15 p.m. in Hale Science Building room 270. A panel of local and national experts will evaluate the impact of news coverage in America on race, ethnicity and religion before and after the Sept. 11 national tragedy.

Editors: Photographers are welcome at the events. Most visual are "Science from CU" at 12:30 p.m., Nubian mummies at 12:30 p.m. and the Bugmobile at 1:40 p.m. The high school students will attend sessions from 8 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Afternoon sessions have from 20 to 60 students in each. About 120 high school students from throughout Colorado will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder on Thursday, Oct. 11, for a day of science presentations ranging from "Cool and Creative Chemistry" to Nubian mummies.

Note to Editors: A public dedication ceremony is set for 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 17 and the open house and clinical research demonstrations are from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the south wing of the third floor of the Wardenburg Health Center on campus. The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder a multi-year, multi-million dollar grant to establish and maintain a General Clinical Research Center for teaching and conducting clinical research studies on humans.

Distinguished Professor Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado department of physics at Boulder and Senior Scientist Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology led a team of physicists that created the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate -- a new form of matter -- on June 5, 1995.