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Twenty-five post-hurricane studies have been funded by the University of Colorado's Natural Hazards Center in the immediate aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The number of "Quick Response" studies set a record for the center. An edited volume of the final reports is planned, said program manager Greg Guibert. "We have some really remarkable projects out there," Guibert said. "Hurricane Katrina had a major impact on our society."

University of Colorado at Boulder law students will conduct two community education workshops in southwest Colorado and the Denver area to explain the impact of a new federal law affecting American Indian land holdings. The soon-to-be implemented federal American Indian Probate Reform Act was passed to stop the division of land resulting from the General Allotment Act of 1887. Many parcels, if they could be split among the owners, would be smaller than the page of an average-sized book.

A NASA institute charged with supporting novel space concepts that push the envelope with existing technology has chosen a University of Colorado at Boulder proposal to image distant planets around other stars for a second round of funding. The $400,000 award will go to CU-Boulder Professor Webster Cash of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy from NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts, or NIAC.

MEDIA ADVISORY The University of Colorado at Boulder physics department will host the American Physical Society's Four Corners section meeting on Oct. 14-15. The conference begins at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 in the Duane Physics building and will include talks and presentations by researchers and students.

°µÍø½ûÇø 4,000 parents and family members of University of Colorado at Boulder students will gather on campus Oct. 21-23 to participate in Family Weekend 2005 activities. The annual fall event draws people from across the United States and several foreign countries. Activities will begin on Friday, Oct. 21, at 9 a.m. with the Eighth Annual Family Weekend Golf Tournament at the Indian Peaks Golf Course in Lafayette. Scheduled activities will conclude Sunday morning with a family fun run/walk from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Rami George Khouri, an internationally syndicated political columnist, journalist and author, will speak on "Four Years After 9/11: An Arab Perspective on the U.S., the Middle East and Terrorism" at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 17. Khouri's talk will be from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 150. The event is sponsored by the Global Media Studies program at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.

PHOTO ADVISORY CU-Boulder students, faculty and staff will help finish the tuning of approximately 350 donated and salvaged bicycles Saturday, Oct. 8, before the bikes are shipped to Baton Rouge, La., and distributed to Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Though the tuning efforts will continue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., most volunteers and participants are expected to be on hand around noon at the parking lot near the former Howe Mortuary Building at the corner of 11th and Pine streets.

Two Colorado representatives and two University of Colorado at Boulder students will debate the pros and cons of Referenda C and D on the CU-Boulder campus on Wednesday, Oct. 12. The debate and panel discussion will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 235. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Boulder Campus Staff Council. State Reps. Matthew Knoedler of Lakewood and Alice Madden of Boulder will be featured in addition to CU-Boulder students Eric Smith and David Winkler.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's 2005 Homecoming begins Friday, Oct. 7, at 5 p.m. with a Homecoming Parade on University Hill. The parade will feature about 35 floats from CU-Boulder residence halls, student groups, Greeks and the community at large. It will be led by Interim CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano and Honorary Grand Marshall Jeremy Bloom. A CU pep rally will follow the parade at Norlin Quad at about 6 p.m. Members of the CU football team will be present for the pep rally.

A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first computer-generated model of a tiny, waterwheel-like molecular rotor that has been harnessed to rotate in one direction at different speeds in response to changes in the strength of an electrical field applied from the outside.