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Star Wars, Titanic, Forrest Gump and Jurassic Park — the top-grossing movies of all time. What made these films successful? A CU-Â鶹ӰԺ business professor says she knows the answer. Ramya Neelamegham, a marketing professor at the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ College of Business, developed a mathematical model that determines which movies will enjoy success at the box office and which will fail.

The next CU Wizards show "Where Chemistry Meet Physics" on Saturday, Oct. 30, will spook children into learning through a Halloween theme with chemical reactions turning orange and black and self-lighting candles in pumpkins. CU-Â鶹ӰԺ chemistry and biochemistry Professor David Nesbitt will present the hour-long show at 9:30 a.m. in the Chemistry building, room 140, on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. The show is free and open to the public.

WHO: Campus volunteers are participating in community service projects as a part of Make A Difference Week, a nationwide movement to get citizens involved in community service. Representatives come from a variety of departments across campus. WHAT: Volunteers will board CU shuttles on campus to go to the Habitat for Humanity site in North Â鶹ӰԺ. They will help with building projects throughout the day. WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 20, and Friday, Oct. 22.

The department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host the first public conference on canon formation in Japanese literary studies Nov. 12-14 at the Broker Inn in Â鶹ӰԺ. According to Stephen Miller, assistant professor of Japanese language and literature and conference chair, the topic of canon formation has become an increasingly important one in the Western literary tradition, but has remained relatively undiscussed in Japan.

Editors: Photographers are welcome to attend and photograph activities at the wellness fair. A campus health and wellness fair for students, faculty and staff will be held in the east section of the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, on Tuesday, Oct. 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fair brings both on- and off-campus organizations with health and wellness programs together in one location. The fair is free of charge except for flu shots.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ program that pairs newly licensed teachers with master teachers in local school districts has proven highly successful in attracting and retaining excellent teachers. At a time when the nation is facing a projected teacher shortage, retention is becoming increasingly important. Two million new teachers will be needed over the next decade, according to government estimates.

Len Ackland, associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, will explore the controversial history of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in an upcoming lecture, " As Rocky Flats Made Nuclear Bombs, Where Were the Media and Citizens?"

Monitoring the way parents and children discuss displays during visits to museums illustrates how parents can help their kids learn about science in informal ways, according to a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study. Professor Steven Guberman of the School of Education led a study that placed transmitting microphones on children and parents as they visited the Denver Museum of Natural History. The 35 volunteer family groups were monitored as they went through the Prehistoric Journey exhibit.

The CU-Â鶹ӰԺ South Asian Students Association is holding the Indian Classical Music Festival on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus from Oct. 23 to Oct. 26 as part of South Asian Awareness Month. Internationally renowned sarod player, Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, will be accompanied by Pandit Nayan Ghosh on the tabla in a concert on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Math Auditorium, room 100.

Services for Ryan James Harrison of Â鶹ӰԺ, who died on Monday, Oct. 11, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1820 Broadway, in Denver. Harrison, 20, a junior business major at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, was born in Los Angeles on June 12, 1979. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was employed by Merrill Lynch and was attending CU-Denver this fall while living in Â鶹ӰԺ.