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Painter Eugenio Dittborn will discuss the process of his painting Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building room N141. The presentation is titled "The 16th History of the Human Face (to Besiege)" and is free and open to the public. Dittborn's talk is part of the Fine Arts department's Visiting Artist Program.

After the collapse of the dot.com business sector last year, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have been forced to regroup and come up with new ways to survive. Survival and other business strategies will be discussed on Feb. 25 at the 2nd annual "Future of High-Tech Startups" conference, to be hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law's Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program.

Capoeira Angola grandmaster Joao Grande will host a free weekend workshop on the Afro-Brazilian folk art March 1-3 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Capoeira Angola is an art form that combines martial arts with dance, music and ritual. Grande will lead a series of classes followed by a March 3 performance in Old Main Chapel from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Classes will be held in Carlson Gymnasium room 1B12. On March 1 a class will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and on March 2 classes will be from 10 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

An accomplished expert on Hinduism and comparative religion will reveal new findings and theories Feb. 26 at a free public lecture to be presented at CU-Boulder by the religious studies department. John Stratton Hawley, chair of the religion department at Columbia University's Barnard College and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Religion, will discuss the meanings of summer vacation retreats and camp programs among various religious communities in America. The talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 250, and a reception will follow.

Despite regional differences, continued study of a broad spectrum of evidence lends credence to climate warming theories, say climatologist Mark Serreze and glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The National Snow and Ice Data Center is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, based at CU-Boulder. Serreze and Scambos presented the finding at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston Feb. 16th.

New calculations by a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher indicate global sea levels likely will rise more by the end of this century than predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001. The projected sea-level rise is due to a revised estimate of the ice melt from glaciers, said geological sciences Emeritus Professor Mark Meier. Meier presented the findings Feb. 16th at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.

Janet Breslin-Smith, a professor of foreign and military policy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., will give a public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Breslin-Smith, who will be on campus Feb. 25-26 as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum, will speak at 2:30 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel about "The Impact of Sept. 11 on Washington." The event is free and open to the public.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's student-initiated purchase of wind power is featured in a public exhibit promoting global warming awareness at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Organized by the World Resources Institute, the exhibit "Global Warming and You" is open through March 16. CU-Boulder is one of 11 organizations, communities and companies highlighted in a section of the exhibit focusing on local initiatives from around the country that aim to combat global warming.

Editors: To observe sixth graders using Summary Street, contact teacher Cindy Matthews at Platt Middle School in Boulder, (303) 499-6800. University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have received $8.4 million in grants from the National Science Foundation to put software that helps students read into Colorado school computers. The unique software is designed to provide individualized help to K-12 students working on reading and comprehension skills.

A 19-year-old student at the University of Colorado at Boulder was diagnosed Wednesday with meningococcal meningitis. The student, who is a freshman in the Baker Residence Hall on the Boulder campus, is in stable condition at Children's Hospital in Denver. University and Boulder County Health Department officials are investigating the single case and say that no other cases of the disease have been identified. State health authorities also have been notified.