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Water resource managers may have to prepare for a warmer Colorado and a shift in the timing of runoff in most of the state's river basins, according to a new assessment of Colorado climate change by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and Colorado State University.

The check was in the mail and it was big.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Energy Initiative, created in 2006 to help meet the world's sustainable and renewable energy needs, has announced a group of corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, advisers, scientists, policymakers and academics as members of its newly formed EI Leadership Council.

Arctic sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second-lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on Sept. 14, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ School of Education researchers are hosting 16 public forums about affirmative action over the next several weeks in Â鶹ӰԺ and Denver in an effort to find out what the public knows and could learn about the controversial topic.

The CU community should be advised that Â鶹ӰԺ County Public Health (BCPH) is currently investigating a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 in the county. Since September 23rd, BCPH has investigated eight related cases. A cluster of seven cases includes CU students.

Visitors planning to attend the Michelle Obama event at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Wednesday, Oct. 1, are encouraged to use alternative transportation and to arrive early for the event scheduled to begin at 11:15 a.m. at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Farrand Field.

Sanjai Bhagat, professor of finance, can address the credit crisis brought on by the subprime mortgage industry. Bhagat's research interests include corporate lawsuits and business valuation and his teaching interests include corporate finance and governance and also entrepreneurial finance. He can be reached at 303-492-7821 or Sanjai.Bhagat@Colorado.EDU .

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which is toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ instrument to measure Mercury's wispy atmosphere and blistering surface, will make its second flyby of the mysterious, rocky planet Oct. 6.

Michelle Obama, prominent attorney, human rights advocate and the wife of Democratic Party presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will visit the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus Wednesday for a voter registration event titled "Change We Need Rally with Michelle Obama."