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Cigarette smoking causes as many as 340,000 deaths a year in the United States and poses a greater relative risk to women than men, according to a new detailed analysis of smokers and mortality led by a University of Colorado at Boulder sociologist.

Twenty-five students from the University of Colorado at Boulder studying international business in London are safe and accounted for in their flats in the city's financial district following today's terrorist attack, CU-Boulder officials said. All of the students also have contacted or attempted to contact their families following the terrorist attack.

Today's bombings of three subway stations and a bus in London "shows that there was some degree of planning and there is probably the presence of some headquarters or planning cell of terrorists involved," said University of Colorado at Boulder political science instructor Michael Kanner. Frank Beer, a political science professor of international relations and conflict, said the attack "will have a chilling effect on Western life and graphically shows the vulnerability of complex modern societies."

The ideas behind building a quantum computer and the power of such a device will be explored July 13 in a lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Charles Marcus, scientific director of Harvard University's Center of Imaging and Mesoscale Structures and physics professor, will present the free public lecture "Quantum Physics and Computation" at 7 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30. Marcus will discuss the possibility of building a quantum computer and the technological advancements that could be expected from it. He also will talk about his research.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a public meeting July 19 to receive community input on its state-issued stormwater permit related to protecting the water quality of Boulder's creeks. The permit deals with surface water, irrigation water, storm drains and any other conveyances on campus that run into local waterways without going through a sewage treatment plant. The meeting to solicit public comment will be held on campus in the Environmental Health and Safety Center at 1000 Regent Drive from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the second floor conference room.

Leading resort developers, professors and law professionals will converge in Avon July 27-29 to discuss the latest trends in sustainable resort development during the Sustainable Resort Development Conference, hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business and business community representatives. Leeds executive development programs and the CU Real Estate Center have teamed up with leading resort developers to present the conference at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek resort in Avon. A fee will be charged to attend the conference.

Business educators from several nations will gather in Boulder July 20-22 to attend a conference designed to help universities tackle the complex problem of teaching business ethics. More than 250 educators are expected to attend the "Teaching Business Ethics" conference, co-sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business, Colorado State University's College of Business, the University of Wyoming and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, or AACSB International.

A shifting diet of two flightless birds inhabiting Australia tens of thousands of years ago is the best evidence yet that early humans may have altered the continent's interior with fire, changing it from a mosaic of trees, shrubs and grasses to the desert scrub evident today, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team.

A team of geophysicists at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to visualize the colliding rock bodies beneath the Himalaya with unprecedented detail, answering a number of questions about the world's highest mountains and providing a new tool for assessing earthquake hazards.

CU System/Anna and John J. Sie Foundation news release DENVER AND BOULDER - June 29, 2005 Today the University of Colorado and The Anna and John J. Sie Foundation of Denver announced The Sie Family Down Syndrome Break-Through Research Initiative. The initiative will provide $600,000 in grant funds to stimulate new scientific research on Down syndrome with the aim of enhancing cognitive ability. These are the first such grants provided to CU for a specific chromosomal condition and the first nationwide specifically for Down syndrome.