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Curious residents of Nederland, Colo., watched recently as two men pulled what looked like a small sled through the town cemetery. Nearby, a woman inched her way among the headstones like an edgy tightrope walker gripping a 15-foot-long metal rod. For spectators wondering what was up, the answer probably surprised them. A University of Colorado at Boulder geophysics class armed with high-tech equipment was searching for unmarked graves and empty plots in the historic mountain communityÂ’s cemetery as part of a project undertaken for Nederland town administrators.

The University of Colorado at Boulder and Front Range Community College have formed a partnership to host a "Breakfast of Champions" for metro-area eighth-graders on Tuesday, Oct. 17. Â鶹ÊÓƵ 80 students and their teachers will have breakfast with CU-Boulder student athletes, coaches and faculty members in addition to FRCC faculty members. Coach Ricardo Patton will join basketball, cross country, track and field and soccer athletes to talk with the eighth-graders about the importance of education.

The need to remedy an existing shortage of research and academic space and modernize aging instructional and research space -- while preparing to meet the needs of an increasing state population in the future -- undergirds a 10-year facilities master plan for the University of Colorado at Boulder. Chancellor Richard L. Byyny presented the CU-Boulder Campus Master Plan to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) today in Aurora.

The Women in Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder has scheduled two Engineering Career Days for High School women this academic year. The all-day programs on Monday, Oct. 16, and Saturday, March 3, will introduce ninth grade- through 12th grade-women to the field of engineering and engage them in hands-on demonstrations and activities. Participants also will hear from professional women engineers, meet current engineering students and get a tour of the CU-Boulder campus.

Editors: Photographers are welcome to join the CU and ChildrenÂ’s Hospital representatives in the lobby of the hospital at 11 a.m. Chancellor Byyny and the athletes also will visit childrenÂ’s rooms on all three floors of the hospital. Two hundred patients at ChildrenÂ’s Hospital in Denver will receive their own "Buffalo Hug" pillows on Wednesday, Oct. 11, when the CU-Boulder Chancellor, coaches and student athletes deliver the cuddly companions to ChildrenÂ’s Hospital President and CEO Doris J. Biester.

Professor Delbert Elliott, director of the CU-Boulder Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, and Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar will speak to high school students in Denver and Louisville about youth violence on Wednesday, Oct. 11.

Evidence of the worldÂ’s earliest known astronomical site discovered in the sediments of a dried lake in southern Egypt will be the topic of a live astronomy show at CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium this month. University of Colorado at Boulder astronomy Professor J. McKim Malville will present "Astronomy Before the Pyramids," on Friday, Oct. 13, and Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the planetarium.

The University of Colorado at Boulder Business Advancement Center has issued a new directory for ColoradoÂ’s photonics industry. The multifaceted directory, the most comprehensive of its kind, offers current information about state and national photonics companies, as well as photonics consultants, organizations and federal laboratories. It also includes analyses of the Colorado and worldwide photonics industries.

Whether the era of school desegregation is coming to an end and related questions will be addressed by leading legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, educators and litigators Oct. 13-14 at the University of Colorado School of Law in a conference titled "The End of School Desegregation?" The 8th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. conference will be in the Lindsley Memorial Courtroom of the Fleming Law Building and is sponsored by the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law.

An external program review to assess diversity efforts at the University of Colorado at Boulder is scheduled for Oct. 11-12, with team members examining campus diversity plans and key strategies and progress for the four administrative divisions, schools and colleges. According to Ofelia Miramontes, associate vice chancellor for diversity and equity, the visit is important at this stage of implementing strategies because the input will help ensure campus efforts are moving in the right direction to meet the goals.