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The ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Board of Regents announced today that Woody and Leslie Eaton have donated $5 million toward the support of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-BoulderÂ’s new Humanities Building at the College of Arts and Sciences. "This is a tremendous commitment in support of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder and the College of Arts and Sciences," said Chancellor Richard Byyny. "WeÂ’re very appreciative of this gift and what it means for the new Humanities Building, as well as for the college. The EatonÂ’s loyalty and generosity to ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder is a great example to us all."

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny and Tuskegee University President Benjamin Payton will sign an agreement on Monday, Oct. 16, that will join the two campuses in an exchange of students, faculty, curriculum and technology. The agreement will be signed at the Kellogg Conference Center on the campus of Tuskegee University.

Editors: Reporters or photographers who want to attend the training exercise should contact Tom Carney at (303) 492-5162 to get identification. An emergency training exercise at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder the morning of Saturday, Oct. 21, may limit access to parking lot 436 and the Regent Autopark, located north and east of the Public Safety building, but will not disrupt campus operations, according to Tom Carney, emergency management coordinator for the university.

Spanish- and Laotian-speaking staff members at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder are taking English as a Second Language classes at work this fall through an Employee Development program designed to improve communication in the workplace and enhance recruitment and retention.

A unique seminar on environmental issues involving prominent Jewish thinkers, environmental activists, businesspeople, academics and local politicians will be hosted by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at BoulderÂ’s Environmental Studies Program Oct. 17. The seminar is the first event of a new project the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, or CLAL, has begun to bring together people with diverse perspectives on environmental issues for study and dialogue, said Rabbi Robert Rabinowitz, a senior fellow at the center. CLAL is based in New York City.

The belief that the Internet is changing the way America does business applies with special force to telecommunications regulation. With the advent of Internet telephone service, often referred to as "voice over Internet protocol," the traditional regulatory regime of telephone service has found itself in a regulatory "no manÂ’s land."

Fiske Planetarium at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder will explore the dynamics of the solar system and the way it was shaped by millions of collisions in "Cosmic Collisions and Our Solar System," Friday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium. The pre-recorded show travels back in time to the beginning of the solar system when the devastating impact of asteroids, comets and millions of chunks of floating debris reworked the surfaces of the planets.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder and MentorNet, an electronic mentoring service for women pursuing degrees in engineering, technology and the sciences, are recruiting additional mentors for the 2000-2001 academic year. The application deadline is Oct. 15. "Our goal is to help address the nation's shortage of engineers and scientists in many fields and increase women's participation in these professions," said Carol Muller, founder and executive director of the nationwide program.

How to keep tourists returning to ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, attract the family vacation market and soften the environmental impacts of sustainable tourism will be among the topics of the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Tourism Conference Oct. 18-20 in Denver. Sponsored by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder College of Business, the conference also will include sessions on adventure recreation tourism, heritage tourism and how to leverage technology to market tourism. "ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Tourism in the New Millennium," will meet at the Doubletree Hotel, 3203 Quebec St., in Denver.

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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus. Boykin will speak on being black and gay in America. The presentation will be a highlight of LesBiGayTransQueer Awareness Month at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥.