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California's varied landscape, once attributed mostly to plate tectonics, is better explained as a chain reaction that began when the Sierra Nevada mountain range cropped up some three million to five million years ago, according to new findings by a team of geologists at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

NEWS TIP SHEET Note to Editors: CU-Boulder political experts Ken Bickers and Michael Kanner, along with constitutional law expert Richard Collins, are available for comment on the election throughout the day and evening on Nov. 2nd.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $1.2 million over four years for a novel proposal to produce clean hydrogen fuel by using concentrated sunlight to split water.

The student-run Honor Code Council at the University of Colorado at Boulder is hosting a talk by former Enron executive and author Lynn Brewer on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building room 140. Brewer will give the keynote address for "Integrity Week," a series of events to be held Nov. 8-11 to increase awareness of academic integrity and the honor code among students, faculty and staff on the Boulder campus. All events are free and open to the public.

Editors: This event is not open to the public but reporters are welcome to attend. For a complete conference schedule visit http://leeds.colorado.edu/burridge and click on conference. Investment experts, including the chief investment officer of Janus Capital Group, will converge in Denver on Nov. 4-5 for a CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business investment conference.

Boulder native Jon T. Coleman will lecture Nov. 5 at the University of Colorado at Boulder on "A Howling Past: How Listening to Wolves Can Change History." The 6 p.m. lecture in Eaton Humanities Building room 1B50 is free and open to the public. The event is presented by the Center of the American West.

Some of the best and brightest computer science students in the Rocky Mountain region will face off Saturday, Oct. 30, in an all-out "battle of the brains" contest of logic, strategy and mental endurance at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM, is the oldest and largest programming contest in the world with 3,000 teams competing in 70 countries this fall.

More than 200 University of Colorado at Boulder students are expected to "Trick or Treat for Charity" Oct. 31 through a program organized by the university's Volunteer Clearing House. "It's a really fun way to make a difference," said Volunteer Clearing House director Anna Domenico. "Basically, it's a Halloween-themed food and clothing drive. CU students can do something good for the local community, get to know their neighbors, and have an excuse to get dressed up and trick or treat again."

The American mass media are doing a poor job of investigating the role of religion in the 2004 presidential campaign, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder journalism professor who just returned from a European conference examining religion and media. "The media in the United States take it as a given that religious people are likely to vote for President Bush," said Professor Stewart Hoover, who made a presentation Sunday at the Prix Europa festival in Berlin. Hoover is co-director of the CU-Boulder Resource Center for Media, Religion and Culture.

Pink lights will illuminate the west steps of Norlin Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder through the end of October as part of a worldwide commemoration of International Breast Cancer Awareness month. Four lanterns and six spotlights will provide pink lighting at night for the steps and pillars of the library thanks to a cooperative effort by the CU-Boulder Office of Community Relations, University Libraries and Facilities Management. The office of Chancellor Richard Byyny, who is a physician, provided support for the lighting.