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Two teams of University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ MBA students will debate Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain's economic platforms in an Oct. 28 event sponsored by the Leeds School of Business.

CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Children, Youth and Environments Center and the International Film Series hope to help enrich the cultural experiences of local youth and adults with a series of films featuring extraordinary tales of children from around the world.

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.

A new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study showing that American toads who pal around with gray tree frogs reduce their chances of parasitic infections known to cause limb malformations has strong implications for the benefits of biodiversity on emerging wildlife diseases.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Environmental Center will host a live, interactive national webcast on Wednesday, Oct. 22, to detail solutions to the growing threat of "climate disruption."

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research are co-sponsoring free, campus panel discussions and lectures this fall on climate change and global energy to coincide with the 2008 presidential election.

The University of Colorado Foundation today announced a $2 million pledge by Jack (Hist '64, MA '70) and Jeannie Thompson (Zool '64) of Â鶹ӰԺ to fund the new Vaccine Development Laboratory in CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Systems Biotechnology Building, slated for groundbreaking in 2009.

Pieter Johnson, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has won a highly prestigious David and Lucille Packard Fellowship, a five-year award that will support his study of emerging diseases in changing environments.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will present three public panel discussions and celebrate its outstanding faculty during the third annual Fall Convocation on Oct. 17. The event will take place as part of Family Weekend.

Popular Science magazine has named University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ chemical and biological engineering Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth as one of its "Brilliant 10" for 2008, honoring her as one of the nation's top young scientists.