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Note: The San Pablo water system and other projects of Engineers Without Borders will be described in a one-hour presentation at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Boulder Creek Meeting Room, Boulder Public Library. "Engineers Without Borders: Building a Better World One Project at a Time," is free and open to the public. A ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder faculty and student group has successfully installed a water system in a small Belize village, bringing water for drinking and irrigation to 250 Mayan Indians.

MEDIA ADVISORY Two upcoming CU-Boulder events have been cancelled, rescheduled o Sept. 18, a lecture by internationally known photographer Cirenaica Moreira has been cancelled. The lecture was part of the Visiting Artist Lecture series, a program of the fine arts department at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. o Sept. 25, a lecture by artist Juan Carlos Alom has been rescheduled to a date to be announced. His lecture is also part of the Visiting Artist Lecture series.

NEWS TIP SHEET ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder Professor Frederick Denny said the large Muslim population in America fears retribution following the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania Sept. 11.

After a period in which people are stunned and in a state of disbelief about the events of Sept. 11, "you can count on this bringing out the best in humanity," says Professor Dennis Mileti, chair of the sociology department at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder and director of the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center.

For avid quaking aspen viewers in search of gold, or even yellow and red, it looks to be a good season in areas west of Denver and Boulder, according to a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder professor.

Two veteran CNN journalists will participate in a town hall meeting on the topic "Are You Getting What You Want from the News" hosted by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Thursday, Sept. 20. The event will begin at 5:15 p.m. in Hale Science Building room 270. The panel discussion also will feature Joanne Ostrow, television critic for the Denver Post. The public is invited to attend.

Tim Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and former U.S. senator from Colorado, will give a public talk titled "Think Globally, Act Locally: A 25-Year Odyssey" at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder on Tuesday, Sept. 25. Wirth will speak at 7 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the CU-Boulder Center of the American West.

For centuries people have attempted to prove the existence of planets circling distant stars. On Friday, Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m. the Fiske Planetarium at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder will explore the topic. "Searching for Distant Worlds," a pre-recorded program, will examine recent discoveries of unknown planets around far-away stars and explain why it is so difficult to find these distant objects. Sommers-Bausch Observatory will be open for telescope viewing immediately following the show at Fiske.

In recognition of Chicano History Week, the United Mexican American ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ organization at CU-Boulder will host a series of events Sept. 10-19. The annual event shares many of the goals of UMAS, according to Victor Hernandez, a senior at CU-Boulder and a peer leader in the group. Both seek to promote awareness about Chicano history and issues the Chicano community faces today, he said.

The Minority Arts and Science Program at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder will have its largest class of incoming humanities and social science students this year. For the first time the program's incoming humanities class will be larger than the science class. Fourteen new social science and humanities students have enrolled in addition to 11 new students in selected scientific fields.