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Cheryl Chase, founder and executive director of the Intersex Society of North America, will speak at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Museum of Natural History will host a daylong science program on Thursday, Oct. 12th on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus for 120 high school students from throughout ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥. This year only schools in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ have chosen to participate. The students, who are members of the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥/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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 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. ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 80 students and their teachers will have breakfast with ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder. Chancellor Richard L. Byyny presented the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Campus Master Plan to the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) today in Aurora.

The Women in Engineering Program at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus.

Editors: Photographers are welcome to join the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-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 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, and ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Attorney General Ken Salazar will speak to high school students in Denver and Louisville about youth violence on Wednesday, Oct. 11.

Evidence of the worldÂ’s earliest known astronomical site discovered in the sediments of a dried lake in southern Egypt will be the topic of a live astronomy show at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium this month. University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder astronomy Professor J. McKim Malville will present "Astronomy Before the Pyramids," on Friday, Oct. 13, and Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the planetarium.