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EXPERIENCES AT CU's LEEDS BUSINESS SCHOOL Editors: Reporters can arrange meetings with some of these business leaders before or after their lectures. Contact Kristen Hislop at (303) 492-7800 to make arrangements. CEOs and founders of Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Coors Brewing, Intrado, Office Depot and other leading companies will discuss lessons learned from their successful business careers with CU-Â鶹ӰԺ students at lectures throughout the fall semester.

The soccer fields at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Williams Village housing complex are undergoing a restoration process with a new watering agreement established between the university and the city of Â鶹ӰԺ. The project began on Aug. 28 and is expected to last four weeks.

The Department of Housing at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will hold its 12th annual Global Jam smorgasbord of culturally diverse foods on Thursday, Sept. 12, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Farrand Field. According to Hall Director Holly Holliday, this year's menu will be prepared by Housing's dining services and will feature African, Spanish and American Indian foods. Some of the foods to be served will include spicy buffalo chili, roasted corn, fideos con gambas, garbonzos con cebolla, gazpacho and various other entrees.

Note to Editors: The initiative on Earth Systems Engineering at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and the work of the nonprofit Engineers Without Borders are described in a report being presented at the World Summit on Sustainable Development now convening in South Africa. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ civil engineering Professor Bernard Amadei recently traveled to Western Africa to introduce an evaporative cooling device in Mali and install a solar-powered water pump in Mauritania.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students have a central place to go when they need help with academic and student life as Ralphie's Resource Center enters its second year. The center in Norlin Library exists to help with the administrative aspects of being a student, including using the Personal Look-Up Services or PLUS system, navigating graduation requirement information and making the most of what CU-Â鶹ӰԺ has to offer.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students and administrators are taking action to prevent the inconsiderate and sometimes violent second-hand effects of friends' or roommates' alcohol abuse. Bob Maust, principal investigator for A Matter of Degree, a grant-supported program to reduce high-risk alcohol use, reports that students are increasingly standing up for themselves when faced with disruptive alcohol situations.

Internet art challenges traditional notions of the artist and artwork: Who is the artist when the medium is dynamic and participatory? What about the integrity of the artwork itself, when the audience can customize the artist's original conception and recreate it in infinite new configurations?

Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend free of charge. In the wake of the Internet's growth, and the migration to broadband connections, different segments of the telecommunications industry continue to converge. This convergence of technologies will be one of the main topics discussed at the University of Colorado School of Law forum titled "The Challenges of Convergence," to be held Sept. 4 in the law school's Lindsley Memorial Courtroom.

While weather likely has been a common topic of conversation since ancient humans first learned to articulate their thoughts millennia ago, one of the hottest topics today among scientists is space weather.

Engineering doctoral student Michael Neylon has been selected as the first recipient of the Teets Family Doctoral Fellowship, a new endowment supporting student research in microsystems and nanosystems at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. Neylon is a second-year graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences, working on research in microfluid mechanics with Professor Kamran Mohseni. His work focuses on developing and modeling microfans for microscale mixing in channels, particle separation and microprocessor cooling.