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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-Â鶹ӰԺ 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 Â鶹ӰԺ 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. Â鶹ӰԺ 120 high school students from throughout Colorado will visit the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ 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 Â鶹ӰԺ 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 Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

Distinguished Professor Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and Senior Scientist Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology today received the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics. The prize also was awarded to Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wieman said he heard about the award from his brother at about 4 a.m. "I have an unlisted number, as does Eric, and so my brother saw it on the Internet and called me up and that's how I found out.

The ninth annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference titled "Conservative Judicial Activism" will be held Oct. 19-20 at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ School of Law.

The Feminist Student Network at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ will host its annual "Take Back the Night" rally and march against sexual assault from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Oct. 10 on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. The rally will begin at 6 p.m. at the University Memorial Center fountain. Speakers at the rally will lend a strong voice to the fight against sexual violence, according to event organizer Rebecca Trinite.

When a nation is gearing up for war, the words its leaders use areimportant -- and follow a predictable pattern, according to politicalscience Professor Francis Beer of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. Beer, who specializes in the study of war and peace, has carefullyexamined politicians' use of words in conflicts of the 20th century. The Sept. 11 attacks, for example, were most often compared withPearl Harbor, and the U.S. response generally has been referred to as the"War on Terrorism."

The Center for Humanities and the Arts at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ will present a free public lecture titled "Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem - and Mine" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8, in the British Studies Room of CU's Norlin Library. Speaking will be James Edward Young, professor of English and chair of the department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 1997, Young was one of five persons appointed by the Berlin Senate to a commission to design Germany's national "Memorial to Europe's Murdered Jews," to be built in Berlin.