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Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the Nov. 4 event. Colorado's oldest women's studies program will celebrate its 30th anniversary at the University of Colorado at Boulder Nov. 4 with a private reception including some of the program's original faculty members and students. CU President Elizabeth Hoffman will offer remarks at the reception, which will be held at the Koenig Alumni Center from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event is not open to the public.

As winter approaches, its short dark days can cause some people to slip into a deep depression lasting anywhere from a couple of weeks to the entire winter. People suffering from this type of depression may have what's known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a condition that develops from a combination of genetic vulnerability and inadequate light exposure, according to David Miklowitz, a University of Colorado at Boulder psychology professor. In Colorado, the peak period for SAD is November through March, he said.

Citing progress made in recent months by the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law on the adequacy of the school's physical facility, the American Bar Association has terminated its accreditation review. In 2003, the ABA found the law school building out of compliance with accreditation standards. Now that the school is proceeding to construct a new building, the ABA said its concerns are being addressed.

Paul Sereno, an internationally known paleontologist who has discovered dinosaurs on five continents, will give a public lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, Nov. 8. His talk, "Dinosaurs on Drifting Continents," will be held in Macky Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Sereno's presentation is the 40th George Gamow Memorial Lecture, a prominent lecture series that brings renowned scientists to CU-Boulder to speak to general audiences of non-scientists. Sereno is a professor at the University of Chicago.

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.