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Society's growing need for expertise when faced with decisions involving science and technology has led to the creation of a new graduate certificate program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The science and technology policy certificate program will begin in spring semester 2004 and is open to all CU-Boulder graduate students. The application deadline is Nov. 14 and admissions decisions will be made by Dec. 19.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder continued their search in southeast Alaska last summer to pinpoint rapidly melting glaciers and ice fields that hold prehistoric human artifacts before exposure triggers their decomposition. For thousands of years, humans hunted on the glaciers and ice fields that cover what is now the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeast interior Alaska. During the summer months these ancient ice fields attracted caribou and other animals seeking refuge from insect swarms that blanket Alaska during summer.

Corporate scandals involving illicit accounting practices and students using cell phones to cheat on college exams are just some of the ethical issues to be discussed at the first annual CU-Boulder Japha Ethics Symposium on Oct. 23.

The fate of religious and moral traditions in the ruthlessly competitive business world is among a number of intriguing ethics topics to be discussed by experts Oct. 23 at the first annual University of Colorado at Boulder Japha Ethics Symposium of the Leeds School of Business.

Lynnell Stephani Long, an intersex woman, educator and activist, will present "Intersex 101" on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. in the University of Colorado at Boulder. Intersexuality refers to the medical diagnoses of people born with anatomical sexual variations, or mixed male and female sexual characteristics. The talk will be in the MCD Biology Building, room A2B70. An intersex child, Long was given a male identity but suffered due to emerging female traits. Later, she committed herself to educating others about intersex conditions.

Professors Lynn Schofield Clark and Kirby Moss of the University of Colorado at Boulder will discuss teen interest in the supernatural and cultural experiences of low-income whites in a joint book-talk on Oct. 22. Clark, author of "From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural" and Moss, author of "The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege" will discuss their research findings from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on campus.

People who are solicited at their homes for donations to help students participate in CU-Boulder's Study Abroad program beware: no such fund-raising program exists and any "donations" made to it will not be used for overseas schooling but probably will wind up in the solicitor's pocket.

For more than 30 years, the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder has combined technical education with the social sciences, including economics, law, policy and finance, in a model program that has produced numerous leaders in the telecommunications field. Now that expertise is being tapped by the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, which has called on the program to provide training in northern Iraq to help rebuild the region's telecommunication infrastructure and systems.

NEWS TIP SHEET A University of Colorado at Boulder law professor is available to comment on the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case in the countdown to, and aftermath of, this Thursday's preliminary hearing. Law Professor Christopher Mueller, an expert on trial procedure and the rules of evidence, can be reached for comment at (303) 492-6973. Also available for comment are:

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Volunteer Reader Program, which records textbooks onto tape for blind, dyslexic and other visually or cognitively impaired students, is looking for volunteers. "We receive about half of our texts from organizations like Reading for the Blind and sometimes it's possible to get an electronic version of a text, but that still leaves many, many books that are not available or not of use to those students with other reading challenges," said Howard Kramer, Assistive Technology Lab coordinator for Disability Services.