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A panel discussion on "How I Covered the War: Reporters on the Front and Editors Back Home" will be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder Oct. 11 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 150. The event is free and open to the public. The panel will feature journalists who have covered war and conflict, including one who participated in embedded journalism, a program that allows reporters to travel with soldiers to report on the war.

°µÍø½ûÇø 4,000 parents and family members of University of Colorado at Boulder students will gather on campus Oct. 15-17 to participate in Family Weekend activities. The annual fall event draws people from across the United States and several foreign countries. In order to help the visitors get around town, the university and Go Boulder are providing free Hop bus service.

CU-Boulder students are being reminded to arrive early for this week's homecoming game against Oklahoma State University, to avoid overcrowding at student gates. A last-minute rush at the CU-CSU game resulted in delayed access to the stadium and some jostled and disgruntled ticket holders. Game time is 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 9.

Screaming water, rising cakes and cooking without heat are some of the topics to be explored during the CU Wizards show "Chemistry of Cooking" on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 9:30 a.m. in the Cristol Chemistry building, room 140. University of Colorado at Boulder chemistry and biochemistry Professor David Nesbitt will present the free hour-long show that will explore the science lurking in the refrigerator and on the kitchen stove.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have found that the extent of Arctic sea ice, the floating mass of ice that covers the Arctic Ocean, is continuing its rapid decline.

The coroner's report concerning the death of Lynn Gordon Bailey Jr., as well as recent events at several other universities, tragically underscores the dangers associated with the misuse and abuse of alcohol. We are committed to doing everything we can to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

In sports, there's a saying that the best offense is a good defense. The same is true for computer security, according to University of Colorado at Boulder researcher John Black. Black and CU-Boulder graduate student Martin Cochran and undergraduate student Ryan Gardner tested the security of the popular Web-based Internet Chess Club and showed that the site wasn't secure. In fact, they proved users could cheat rather easily. Internet Chess Club has more than 30,000 members worldwide and claims Madonna, Nicolas Cage, Will Smith and Gary Kasparov as players.

Hugo G. Rodeck, former director of the University of Colorado Museum, died Sept. 28 in Boulder. He was 102. Rodeck was appointed director of the CU Museum in 1939 and held the position until his retirement in 1971. His association with the museum began in 1929 when he worked as a graduate assistant before being named curator in 1933, a position he held until 1939.

Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia is the winner of the inaugural Summit Award for Environmental Leadership presented today by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. The chemical company was one of three finalists for the award given by the Leeds School's Center for Business and Society. Albertsons Inc. of Boise, Idaho, and Horizon Organic of Longmont, Colo., also were recognized as finalists.

A NASA institute has selected a new University of Colorado at Boulder proposal for further study that describes how existing technologies can be used to study planets around distant stars with the help of an orbiting "starshade." The concept by CU-Boulder Professor Webster Cash of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy was one of 12 proposals selected for funding Sept. 28 by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, or NIAC. Cash's proposal details the methods needed to design and build what essentially is a giant "pinhole camera" in space.