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Richard L. Byyny, chancellor of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, will deliver his annual address on the status of women at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ next Thursday, Sept.2. The address takes place at 3 p.m. in room 235 of the University Memorial Center, at the corner of Broadway and Euclid Avenue. Members of the public are invited to attend the address and the reception afterwards. The event is being hosted by the chancellor, the universityÂ’s Office of Diversity and Equity and the ChancellorÂ’s Committee on Women.

Wandering barnyard animals may have sparked some of this nationÂ’s bloodiest conflicts between early English settlers and American Indians, according to Virginia DeJohn Anderson, associate professor of American History at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. Anderson has begun writing a book that will examine people and animals in 17th century America, focusing on New England and the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland.

Editors: A list of parents and students available for comment is attached. ItÂ’s no secret that education can be an expensive item these days but the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is doing its best to help ease that burden. For the first time starting this fall, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ is launching a computer loan program that will provide free computers for about 160 freshmen to use over the next four years.

Ray Cuzzort, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, died at his home in Â鶹ӰԺ on Monday. He was 72. A memorial service will be held at the Old Main Chapel on campus on Tuesday, Aug. 31, starting at 11 a.m. This will be followed by an informal reception at his home, 1300 Elder Ave., at 12:30 p.m. Cuzzort, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, began working at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ in 1966, was chair of sociology in the early 1980s and retired in 1988.

The Office of the Registrar at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will join the other enrollment departments--Admissions, Financial Aid, and Orientation--in the division of academic affairs on Sept. 1, according to Phil DiStefano, vice chancellor for academic affairs. The Registrar's Office works closely with enrollment services and all of the colleges and schools to provide registration, academic scheduling, record-keeping, information services and academic support to students, faculty and the campus community.

Charles Wilkinson, a distinguished CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professor of law who is recognized as a champion of the American West through his decades of writing and legal work, will be the first featured speaker in a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ lecture series hosted at The Academy beginning Wednesday, Sept. 8. This fall, the series will highlight faculty from CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Center of the American West, including its co-founders Wilkinson and Patricia Limerick, and the Natural Resources Law Center. All talks will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel at The Academy, located at 970 Aurora Ave. in Â鶹ӰԺ.

Editors: A revised academic calendar is attached. The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is moving ahead with plans to implement a fall break and some other changes to its academic calendar, according to William Kaempfer, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs for budget and planning. The first Fall Break will occur on Oct. 5 and Oct. 6, 2000. "Over the years we have gradually moved to starting the year earlier and ending it later," Kaempfer said. "This has created a long, unbroken and stressful fall semester for everyone -- students, faculty and staff.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ received more than $204 million in sponsored research awards for the 1998-99 fiscal year, a 12.4 percent increase over last year and the first time the campus has topped the $200 million mark. Of the 1,596 grant proposals made in 1998-99, about half were winners, despite increasing competition for funds by universities and other research institutions across the nation.

The Cooperative Education and Internship Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been awarded approximately $600,000 to continue the National Institute for Standards and Technology Professional Research Experience Program (NIST/PREP), according to Howard Rosenberg, principal investigator and project director for CU-Â鶹ӰԺ. The program provides outstanding work and learning experiences for undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students at the NIST lab in Â鶹ӰԺ. Graduate and post-doctoral students work with CU-Â鶹ӰԺ faculty on selected projects.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ legal scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic will lecture Thursday, Sept. 2, on "Homegrown Racism: Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action in Colorado." The lecture will be from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. The event is free and open to the public. Delgado is the Jean Lindsley Professor of Law and Jean Stefancic is a research assistant at the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ School of Law.