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An annual assistive technology conference co-sponsored by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will highlight the availability and potential benefits of assistive technology in education and business with more than 50 workshops.

The University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, Colorado's official memorial to war veterans, will host a Veterans Day ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Jack Burns of the astrophysical and planetary sciences department has been named chair of the NASA Advisory Council's Science Committee.

Vegetation and soils already subjected to long-term acid rain could face even more stress in the form of nitrogen-laden precipitation, according to William D. Bowman, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

Immigration is the subject of the 12th annual Words to Stir the Soul event to be presented by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in Old Main Chapel.

A new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study indicates that not only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, women have a significantly greater diversity of microbes on their palms than men.

Presidential Election and Congressional Races. Kenneth Bickers, professor and chair of the political science department, can comment on this year's presidential election and congressional races in Colorado and the nation. He also can address the youth vote, campaign issues and tactics and what polling can tell us. Bickers will be available for telephone interviews on election night to print and broadcast reporters who make arrangements with him in advance at bickers@colorado.edu or 303-492-2363.

The University Memorial Center will be the best place around to watch the final moments of the 2008 presidential election unfold and to see what CU-Â鶹ӰԺ students think of the most important election of their lifetime.

The motivations behind teen behavior aren't always black and white, but when it comes to political identity, how young people talk about issues seems to be a matter of "blue" and "red."

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson