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The East Asian Graduate Association of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ will hold its Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference beginning Friday, Oct. 26, on the university campus. The event will address cross-disciplinary issues of importance specific to students studying East Asia. The theme for this year's conference, "Creating Culture," will explore the definition of culture and its development, creation and many manifestations in China and Japan.

As the Internet infiltrates people's lives, it has changed the way businesses operate, stocks are traded and news is dispersed. It also is changing the face of the art world. Standing at the forefront of this change is Mark Amerika, a pioneer in the digital arts field and a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ assistant professor in the fine arts department. Amerika, who last spring was named one of Time magazine's top 100 innovators for the new century, creates his online artwork with computer graphics, music and hypertexts in an ever-changing medium.

The CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence will field calls coming into a toll-free information line about bullying at 1-866-NO-BULLY. The information line will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, with voice mail at other times. The service is part of the Colorado Anti-Bullying Project launched by Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar Oct. 24.

MEDIA ADVISORY Oct. 30 Press Conference, Demonstration of Advanced Visualization Technology set at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ The BP Center for Visualization at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, a new interdisciplinary research center in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, will unveil its state-of-the-art Immersive Visualization Environment (IVE) during a series of grand opening events Oct. 29-30.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Norman Pace has been named a 2001 winner of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, often called a "Genius Grant." Pace, a professor in the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department, is the fifth CU-Â鶹ӰԺ faculty member to win the prestigious award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago. Pace, 59, was one of 23 recipients of the 2001 "no-strings attached" funding.

The dance program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ was recently named one of 51 grant recipients from the National College Choreography Initiative, a National Endowment for the Arts fund administered by Dance/USA. The $10,000 award will enable CU's dance program to host a notable dance artist on campus later this year.

The effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Colorado's tourism industry will be addressed Oct. 24 at the Colorado tourism conference sponsored by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Leeds School of Business. The conference is organized by the Center for Sustainable Tourism at the Leeds School of Business and the Colorado Tourism Office. Conference topics also will address how to keep tourists returning to Colorado, U.S. travel trends and the future of skiing in Colorado.

Note to Editors: NASA's still images and movie files, courtesy of NASA's Dana Berry can be accessed at: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011015blackhole.html . For the first time ever, astrophysicists have observed extra energy escaping from the supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy.

Cal Skaggs, producer of the five-part documentary series "Local News," will be featured as a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Oct. 24 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Hale Science Building, room 270.

Leeds School Of Business Appoints Six Top Executives To Advisory Council CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Leeds School of Business Dean Steven Manaster has appointed six new members to the school's Business Advisory Council. The six accomplished executives from a variety of professional backgrounds will bring invaluable experience to the role of advising the school's administration, said Manaster. The new members are Hollis Booker, Patrick Butler, Richard Engebretson, Marcia Pryde, John Puerner and Beth Slifer.