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Star and constellation myths from the Navajo and Lakota traditions will be featured in November during live astronomy shows at Fiske Planetarium on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. "Navajo Skies," presented by CU-Boulder professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences John Stocke, will take place Friday, Nov. 14, and Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Lakota storytellers will take part in "Watchers of the Ancient Skies" on Nov. 15 and 16 at 2 p.m.

A one-day only campuswide immunization clinic for meningitis and flu shots is being offered by the Wardenburg Health Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Thursday, Nov. 6, and should be a "must do" activity for students who live in the residence halls, said Robert Cranny, director of Wardenburg. Cranny's recommendation is in line with health officials nationally who support the shots for college-age adults, especially those living in group settings such as campus residence halls.

For the second time this year, Colorado skywatchers will be treated to a total eclipse of the moon, according to experts at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Sommers-Bausch Observatory and Fiske Planetarium. The total lunar eclipse will occur in the twilight hours of Saturday, Nov. 8, when at about 6 p.m. the moon will be totally eclipsed. The total eclipse will last less than 30 minutes.

Professor William M. Lewis Jr. of the University of Colorado at Boulder will lecture Nov. 12 on a controversy involving the Endangered Species Act that has received coast-to-coast attention. "Science, Policy and Politics in the Klamath Basin" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House at 900 Baseline Road in Boulder. The talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

An award-winning African forestry management researcher will offer his insights at the University of Colorado at Boulder Nov. 3-11 thanks to the efforts of the university's Developing Areas Research and Teaching, or DART, program. Richard Nyirenda, of the Centre for International Forestry Research in Zimbabwe, will exchange ideas with CU-Boulder faculty and students during lectures as well as a Nov. 5 public colloquium and informal meetings with interested scholars.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will kick off a major new program, the Tocqueville Initiative for the Study of America in a Globalizing World, with a Nov. 3 lecture on "Why America Is Not an Empire and Why This Matters." Professor Desmond King, the Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government at Oxford University in England, will give the talk at 5 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Cultural Events Board of the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a lecture by political pundit and author Ann Coulter on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. Coulter, a lawyer, writer and syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate, is dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights and the free exercise of religion. She is often asked to provide a counterbalance for the liberal point of view on TV shows such as Larry King Live, Hannity and Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, Crossfire and others.

In 1,500 lectures during the last five decades, Professor Emeritus Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado at Boulder physics department has warned of the perilous effects of population growth. On Nov. 15, he'll continue spreading the word. Bartlett's classic "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" lecture, part of the monthly Saturday Physics Series, will begin at 2 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20 on the CU-Boulder campus. It will be the 1,501st time he's given the talk.

CU-Boulder's School of Law and School of Education will present a panel discussion Nov. 3 on Colorado's new voucher law. Called "The Legal and Policy Issues Surrounding Colorado's New Voucher law," the discussion will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the law school's Lindsley Memorial Courtroom. The event is free and open to the public.

Emma Pérez, a new associate professor in the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is taking a novel approach to documenting the history of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the southwest. Pérez's research and scholarship focuses on "queer" history and studies from gendered and racial perspectives. Her book currently in progress, "Queering the Borderlands," focuses on historical and literary documents of gays and lesbians in the southwest United States in the late 1800s and early 20th century.