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Jackson Katz, a nationally recognized leader in fighting men's violence against women, will lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21, in Macky Auditorium. The lecture, including audiovisuals, is intended for students, faculty and staff and is titled "Challenge Your Perspective: Changing the CU Culture."

CU-Boulder Professor Bella Mody, an India native whose research and consulting work has focused on developing countries around the world, has joined the faculty as the first holder of the James E. de Castro Chair in Global Media Studies at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The de Castro chair, funded through a $1.5 million gift from James E. de Castro, a University of Colorado at Boulder alumnus, is the school's first endowed chair and one of the first of its kind in the nation.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is ranked among the top 100 colleges in the nation for minorities receiving degrees by two magazines, Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education and Black Issues in Higher Education. "The administration and faculty at CU-Boulder value a diverse educational environment and we are making slow but steady gains," said Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, vice provost and associate vice chancellor for diversity.

The upcoming presidential and vice presidential debates will be critical to the outcome of the election and could become heated as the candidates struggle to connect with voters, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder expert in political communication. "I expect there to be some very crisp exchanges between John Kerry and George W. Bush," said Gerard Hauser, CU-Boulder professor of communication and recipient of the Rhetoric Society of America's prestigious George E. Yoos Award.

Editor's Note: For information on the Boulder site, please contact Gail Siegel or Mike Liguori at the numbers listed above. For information about the content of the program, J. John Cohen or the CU Health Sciences Center, contact Dana Berry. Killer T-cells, antibodies, new drugs and cancer breakthroughs will be among the many topics examined during a free nine-week "CU Mini Med School" hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder Sept. 22 to Nov. 17.

Editors' Note: Photographers are welcome to attend the show. Audience members will be asked to help weigh objects in air and water and create strange fluids from household items during the first CU Wizards show of the fall semester on Sept. 18 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Study Abroad Fair on Sept. 15 will include students returning from some countries that some Americans might think of as unsafe. "Some of the returning students who will be at the fair studied in places some Americans might perceive as 'off-limits' -- that's not necessarily the case," said CU-Boulder Study Abroad administrator Jami Nelson-Nunez. The Study Abroad information fair will be open to students from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center.

If you're a CEO, don't believe your own press because it may be hazardous to your company's health, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher. That advice may sound easy to follow, but the media's insatiable appetite for celebrities and many CEOs' propensity to swallow positive press hook, line and sinker can make it hard not to be influenced, according to Mathew Hayward an assistant professor in CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 1 p.m. on Sept. 8. James White is reachable at James.White@colorado.edu or at the Crowne Plaza Christchurch Hotel, New Zealand, at 643-365-7799. Christchurch time is 16 hours ahead of U.S. EDT. A new, undisturbed Greenland ice deep-core record going back 123,000 years shows the Eemian period prior to the last glacial period was slightly warmer than the present day before it gradually cooled and sent Earth into an extended deep freeze.

Susan Avery, professor of electrical and computer engineering and outgoing director of CIRES, the largest institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been appointed interim dean of the Graduate School and vice chancellor for research, according to Provost Phil DiStefano. Avery's appointment, approved by the Board of Regents last month, fills the positions vacated by Carol Lynch, following Lynch's 12 years as CU-Boulder's top research official.