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A major new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms the contrarian thesis of a book by University of Colorado School of Law Professor Paul Campos titled "The Diet Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health."

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers say a bizarre group of microbes found living inside rocks in an inhospitable geothermal environment at Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park could provide tantalizing clues about ancient life on Earth and help steer the hunt for evidence of life on Mars.

Six alumni and the former director of the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be honored with the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award at the 40th annual Engineering Awards Banquet April 22.

Professor William Reinhardt of the University of Washington will deliver the University of Colorado at Boulder's annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture titled "Chaos, the Birth of a New Science" on Monday, April 25. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be at 5 p.m. in room 150 in the Eaton Humanities Building, located at the intersection of Macky Drive and Pleasant Avenue across from Macky Auditorium.

Prominent researchers Eugene Myers and David Haussler, who each played a central role in the decoding of the human genome, will present a joint lecture on the "Impact of Human Genome Research: Present and Future" April 22 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The 90-minute talk is the fourth Mervyn Young Memorial Lecture and will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Ramaley Biology Building room C250. The presentation is intended for a general audience, and is free and open to the public.

Professor Vincent Mosco, Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society at Queen's University, Alberta, will speak on "Knowledge Workers in the Global Economy: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" April 22 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The talk, at 2 p.m. in room 247 of the University Memorial Center, is the first de Castro Visiting Lecture to be hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Global and International Media program and is free and open to the public. The CU-Boulder sociology department is co-hosting the talk.

Rudolfo Anaya, author of the book "Bless Me Ultima," will be in Boulder April 21-23 participating in several special events as part of the One Book One Boulder program. A welcome dinner for Anaya will be held on Thursday, April 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the Stadium Club at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Folsom Field. The dinner, including parking, is $35 per person.

World-renowned human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a professor of sociology at the American University of Cairo in Egypt, will lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 18, in Old Main Chapel. Ibrahim, who was imprisoned for three years before his conviction was overturned by the Egyptian High Court in 2003, will speak on "Spring of Freedom? Is Real Change Coming to the Arab World?" His talk is free and open to the public.

More than 80 engineering student inventions ranging from whimsical Rube Goldberg contraptions to devices that help a person to walk on water will be demonstrated at the University of Colorado at Boulder's ITLL Spring Design Expo on Saturday, April 23. The event, which is free and open to the public from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., will include exhibits and demonstrations in the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory as well as outside on the Herbst Plaza. The ITL Laboratory is located on Regent Drive just south of Colorado Avenue.

Three University of Colorado at Boulder students have won a prestigious national scholarship for excellence in math, science and engineering. Ashley Moore, Kelsi Singer and Amy Reppert were named Goldwater Scholars and will receive up to $7,500 for educational expenses next year. All three students are juniors who expect to graduate in May 2006.