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Note to Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend without charge. To arrange, call Travis Litman at (303) 738-5633 or email Litman at sftp@colorado.edu . Exploring how federal legislation over the last 20 years has shaped the cable industry in the United States will be the focus of an upcoming conference at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder School of Law.

Rachel Silvey, an assistant professor in CU-Boulder's geography department, has been awarded a Fulbright New Century Scholars Award to study gender relations in Islam. Silvey was one of 31 scholars chosen from around the world to participate in the program and is the only recipient of the award in the state of Colorado. The team of scholars will focus on the theme "Toward Equity: The Global Empowerment of Women."

Trying to guess which Internet technology will be used to help offset the growing consumer demand for broadband service is the focus of a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder School of Law conference to be held Sept. 29 from 3:15 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Fleming Law Building on campus. Titled "Searching for the Third Broadband Pipe," the conference will examine the rise of Internet-enabled applications that are being developed to meet the demand for broadband service other than DSL and cable modem connections.

Jeff Romine, a regional economist specializing in economic and demographic estimates and long-term growth forecasts for Colorado, has joined the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder's Leeds School of Business as a researcher. Romine is working as a research economist at the Leeds School's Business Research Division and comes to the school from the Denver Regional Council of Governments, where he was responsible for all socioeconomic estimations and forecasts for the Denver region.

Note to Editors: Members of the media are invited to all symposium events and should check in at the event registration desk, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Imig Music Building lobby. Photographers should contact Professor Tom Riis in advance. Photography during concerts is not permitted. Nadia Boulanger, the master musician and teacher of luminaries like Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Elliott Carter and Quincy Jones, said the biggest question ever asked of her came from a young boy in Boston. He wanted to know what constituted a masterpiece.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder has completed a $1 million facility at the Mountain Research Station west of Boulder, providing researchers, students and visitors with comfortable, year-round living and teaching quarters.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder officials are urging students to register their bikes with campus authorities after 21 bikes were reported stolen in the first few weeks of the fall 2004 semester. Officials estimated the total value of the stolen property at nearly $14,000, adding that most of the 21 stolen bikes were not registered with the CU Police Department. Thieves cut through cable locks to take 16 of the bikes.

Glaciers in Antarctica's most rapidly warming region have quickened their pace following the collapse of a Delaware-sized ice shelf in March 2002, according to a new study led by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder and a related study by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Osram Sylvania, a leading lighting company, has lit some of the nation's most important treasures including Niagara Falls, the Hoover Dam, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and Boston's Old State House. The company announced today that it is committed to illuminating a different kind of national resource: students in the field of lighting.

Although tobacco addiction is the leading cause of preventable death in Colorado, the state's cigarette tax is ranked lowest in the nation and some critics say the rate encourages tobacco use. The cigarette tax and other tobacco-related health topics will be explored during a monthlong series of conferences and presentations offered by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder School of Law and the university's Center for Bioethics and Humanities.