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Professor William M. Lewis Jr. of the University of Colorado at Boulder will lecture Nov. 12 on a controversy involving the Endangered Species Act that has received coast-to-coast attention. "Science, Policy and Politics in the Klamath Basin" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House at 900 Baseline Road in Boulder. The talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

An award-winning African forestry management researcher will offer his insights at the University of Colorado at Boulder Nov. 3-11 thanks to the efforts of the university's Developing Areas Research and Teaching, or DART, program. Richard Nyirenda, of the Centre for International Forestry Research in Zimbabwe, will exchange ideas with CU-Boulder faculty and students during lectures as well as a Nov. 5 public colloquium and informal meetings with interested scholars.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will kick off a major new program, the Tocqueville Initiative for the Study of America in a Globalizing World, with a Nov. 3 lecture on "Why America Is Not an Empire and Why This Matters." Professor Desmond King, the Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government at Oxford University in England, will give the talk at 5 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Cultural Events Board of the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a lecture by political pundit and author Ann Coulter on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. Coulter, a lawyer, writer and syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate, is dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights and the free exercise of religion. She is often asked to provide a counterbalance for the liberal point of view on TV shows such as Larry King Live, Hannity and Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, Crossfire and others.

In 1,500 lectures during the last five decades, Professor Emeritus Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado at Boulder physics department has warned of the perilous effects of population growth. On Nov. 15, he'll continue spreading the word. Bartlett's classic "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" lecture, part of the monthly Saturday Physics Series, will begin at 2 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20 on the CU-Boulder campus. It will be the 1,501st time he's given the talk.

CU-Boulder's School of Law and School of Education will present a panel discussion Nov. 3 on Colorado's new voucher law. Called "The Legal and Policy Issues Surrounding Colorado's New Voucher law," the discussion will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the law school's Lindsley Memorial Courtroom. The event is free and open to the public.

Emma Pérez, a new associate professor in the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is taking a novel approach to documenting the history of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the southwest. Pérez's research and scholarship focuses on "queer" history and studies from gendered and racial perspectives. Her book currently in progress, "Queering the Borderlands," focuses on historical and literary documents of gays and lesbians in the southwest United States in the late 1800s and early 20th century.

Sister Helen Prejean, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book "Dead Man Walking" and an internationally known death penalty opponent, will give a public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, Nov. 3. Prejean will be on campus as part of the World Affairs Athenaeum program and will speak at 7 p.m. in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.

The Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business has been named one of three national recipients of the NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. The award was created by NASDAQ in association with the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers to recognize the unique achievements and efforts of entrepreneurship centers across the United States.

An annual ranking of the Top 25 Law Schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine places the University of Colorado School of Law 15th among the nation's best law schools for Hispanics. The ranking, published in the magazine's September 2003 edition, places CU 15th of 25 law schools that offer the best opportunities for Hispanic students. The ranking is based on a number of factors such as how many Hispanic students are enrolled, the number of Hispanic faculty members, Hispanic student service programs, retention rates and reputation.