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Although the smoke has cleared from the forest fires that ravaged the West last summer, including the foothills of ColoradoÂ’s Jefferson and Larimer counties, debate over the effectiveness of current wildfire management practices continues. Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and a host of forest management experts will discuss questions surrounding those practices at noon this Thursday, Nov. 30, at a special "Hot Topics" luncheon program in Denver sponsored by the CU-Boulder Natural Resources Law Center.

By Mary Ann Lopez CU-Boulder News Services Writer Parents eagerly anticipate the moment when their children start to talk. It is exciting when a child begins saying their first words and making sentences. But for some parents it is a time of anxiety, because their child struggles to get the words out.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will present its 36th annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook Forum at 1:15 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11. The 2001 economic forecast, held in the grand ballroom of Denver's Brown Palace Hotel, is free and open to the public.

CONTACTS: Jeanne McDonald (303) 492-0318 Jodi Kopke (303) 572-4182 WHAT: More than 40 blankets are being donated to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. CU-Boulder faculty, staff and students donated the blankets as part of CU-BoulderÂ’s Winter Warmth Drive through the month of November. WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 10 a.m. WHO: CU-Boulder students will deliver the blankets to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. Students are all members of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. WHERE: Boulder Shelter for the Homeless

A memorial service has been scheduled for A. Richard Seebass, aerospace engineering professor and former dean of CU-BoulderÂ’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. The service will be Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m., in the University Memorial CenterÂ’s Glenn Miller Ballroom. A reception will be held immediately following the service. Seebass, who was dean of the engineering college from 1981 to 1994, died Nov. 14 at Boulder Community Hospital after a short illness.

Several interactive learning stations designed for the non-profit "Breathe Better Bus" will be among the more than 60 student-built engineering projects demonstrated at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory Fall Design Expo on Saturday, Dec. 9. A popular, educational event for K-12 students and their families, the semi-annual Design Expo is free and open to the public.

The Milky Way and some of the millions of other galaxies that make up the universe will be explored during a live astronomy show at the University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Dec. 1, and Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Erica Ellingson will take planetarium visitors on a multimedia trip beginning in the Milky Way and continuing through other galaxies to the outer reaches of the observable universe during her show.

Michael Holleran, associate professor of planning and design at the University of Colorado at Denver, will lecture on the role of irrigation ditches in urban environments on Tuesday, Dec. 5, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.

Editors: Photographers are welcome to photograph the computer delivery at the Family Learning Center at 9: 30 a.m. Wedneday, Nov. 22. CU-Boulder staff and students will be on hand Wednesday, Nov. 22, at 9:30 a.m. to donate more than a dozen computers to the Family Learning Center at 3164 34th St. in Boulder. FLC children and adult learners use the on-site computer lab for homework and continuing adult education. Used computers are being donated as part of an ongoing program between the university and the Family Learning Center.

University of Colorado at Boulder faculty have devised a new method to study how language develops in Spanish-speaking populations as part of a larger effort to identify and help deaf and hard-of-hearing U.S. infants using family intervention techniques.