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University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate student Saqib bin Sohail, of Pakistan, is coordinating a drive to collect winter clothing, blankets and tents for victims of the Oct. 8, 7.6-magnitude earthquake, which has left thousands of Pakistanis homeless and without basic necessities.

Editors: Photographs are available by contacting Greg Swenson at (303) 492-3113 or greg.swenson@colorado.edu . Three University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty members are expected to be named distinguished professors, the highest honor bestowed by CU on its teaching faculty.

Edward Craighead, professor and chair of the psychology department at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has won a national award in recognition of his contributions to the field of clinical psychology. Craighead received the Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology. The American Psychological Association's Society of Clinical Psychology gives the award.

Twenty-five post-hurricane studies have been funded by the University of Colorado's Natural Hazards Center in the immediate aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The number of "Quick Response" studies set a record for the center. An edited volume of the final reports is planned, said program manager Greg Guibert. "We have some really remarkable projects out there," Guibert said. "Hurricane Katrina had a major impact on our society."

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ law students will conduct two community education workshops in southwest Colorado and the Denver area to explain the impact of a new federal law affecting American Indian land holdings. The soon-to-be implemented federal American Indian Probate Reform Act was passed to stop the division of land resulting from the General Allotment Act of 1887. Many parcels, if they could be split among the owners, would be smaller than the page of an average-sized book.

A NASA institute charged with supporting novel space concepts that push the envelope with existing technology has chosen a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ proposal to image distant planets around other stars for a second round of funding. The $400,000 award will go to CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Webster Cash of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy from NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts, or NIAC.

MEDIA ADVISORY The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ physics department will host the American Physical Society's Four Corners section meeting on Oct. 14-15. The conference begins at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 in the Duane Physics building and will include talks and presentations by researchers and students.

Â鶹ӰԺ 4,000 parents and family members of University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students will gather on campus Oct. 21-23 to participate in Family Weekend 2005 activities. The annual fall event draws people from across the United States and several foreign countries. Activities will begin on Friday, Oct. 21, at 9 a.m. with the Eighth Annual Family Weekend Golf Tournament at the Indian Peaks Golf Course in Lafayette. Scheduled activities will conclude Sunday morning with a family fun run/walk from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Rami George Khouri, an internationally syndicated political columnist, journalist and author, will speak on "Four Years After 9/11: An Arab Perspective on the U.S., the Middle East and Terrorism" at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Oct. 17. Khouri's talk will be from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 150. The event is sponsored by the Global Media Studies program at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.

PHOTO ADVISORY CU-Â鶹ӰԺ students, faculty and staff will help finish the tuning of approximately 350 donated and salvaged bicycles Saturday, Oct. 8, before the bikes are shipped to Baton Rouge, La., and distributed to Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Though the tuning efforts will continue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., most volunteers and participants are expected to be on hand around noon at the parking lot near the former Howe Mortuary Building at the corner of 11th and Pine streets.