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Spanish- and Laotian-speaking staff members at the University of Colorado at Boulder are taking English as a Second Language classes at work this fall through an Employee Development program designed to improve communication in the workplace and enhance recruitment and retention.

A unique seminar on environmental issues involving prominent Jewish thinkers, environmental activists, businesspeople, academics and local politicians will be hosted by the University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Environmental Studies Program Oct. 17. The seminar is the first event of a new project the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, or CLAL, has begun to bring together people with diverse perspectives on environmental issues for study and dialogue, said Rabbi Robert Rabinowitz, a senior fellow at the center. CLAL is based in New York City.

The belief that the Internet is changing the way America does business applies with special force to telecommunications regulation. With the advent of Internet telephone service, often referred to as "voice over Internet protocol," the traditional regulatory regime of telephone service has found itself in a regulatory "no manÂ’s land."

Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder will explore the dynamics of the solar system and the way it was shaped by millions of collisions in "Cosmic Collisions and Our Solar System," Friday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium. The pre-recorded show travels back in time to the beginning of the solar system when the devastating impact of asteroids, comets and millions of chunks of floating debris reworked the surfaces of the planets.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU-Boulder and MentorNet, an electronic mentoring service for women pursuing degrees in engineering, technology and the sciences, are recruiting additional mentors for the 2000-2001 academic year. The application deadline is Oct. 15. "Our goal is to help address the nation's shortage of engineers and scientists in many fields and increase women's participation in these professions," said Carol Muller, founder and executive director of the nationwide program.

How to keep tourists returning to Colorado, attract the family vacation market and soften the environmental impacts of sustainable tourism will be among the topics of the Colorado Tourism Conference Oct. 18-20 in Denver. Sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Business, the conference also will include sessions on adventure recreation tourism, heritage tourism and how to leverage technology to market tourism. "Colorado Tourism in the New Millennium," will meet at the Doubletree Hotel, 3203 Quebec St., in Denver.

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Resource Center and Boulder Pride will present author Keith Boykin on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Benson Earth Sciences Building, room 180, on the CU-Boulder campus. Boykin will speak on being black and gay in America. The presentation will be a highlight of LesBiGayTransQueer Awareness Month at CU.

Cheryl Chase, founder and executive director of the Intersex Society of North America, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 19 and Oct. 20. Chase's talk, "Love With A Ruler: Intersexuality and Social Justice," will be presented on Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Building, room 150, and on Oct. 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, Aspen Room. A reception will precede ThursdayÂ’s lecture, and discussion will follow both presentations.

New evidence indicates while many Pueblo groups that abandoned the Four Corners area about 1300 migrated south to settle in northern Arizona and northern New Mexico, others made a swift, southernly migration up to 250 miles long.

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History will host a daylong science program on Thursday, Oct. 12th on the CU-Boulder campus for 120 high school students from throughout Colorado. This year only schools in Colorado have chosen to participate. The students, who are members of the Colorado/Wyoming Junior Science Academy, will be exposed to all forms of science, from biology to physics and zoology to engineering, said Lori Stott, director of public programs at the CU Museum of Natural History.