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Wandering barnyard animals may have sparked some of this nationÂ’s bloodiest conflicts between early English settlers and American Indians, according to Virginia DeJohn Anderson, associate professor of American History at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder. Anderson has begun writing a book that will examine people and animals in 17th century America, focusing on New England and the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland.

Ray Cuzzort, professor emeritus of sociology at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, died at his home in Boulder on Monday. He was 72. A memorial service will be held at the Old Main Chapel on campus on Tuesday, Aug. 31, starting at 11 a.m. This will be followed by an informal reception at his home, 1300 Elder Ave., at 12:30 p.m. Cuzzort, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, began working at CU-Boulder in 1966, was chair of sociology in the early 1980s and retired in 1988.

Charles Wilkinson, a distinguished CU-Boulder professor of law who is recognized as a champion of the American West through his decades of writing and legal work, will be the first featured speaker in a CU-Boulder lecture series hosted at The Academy beginning Wednesday, Sept. 8. This fall, the series will highlight faculty from CU-BoulderÂ’s Center of the American West, including its co-founders Wilkinson and Patricia Limerick, and the Natural Resources Law Center. All talks will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel at The Academy, located at 970 Aurora Ave. in Boulder.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder received more than $204 million in sponsored research awards for the 1998-99 fiscal year, a 12.4 percent increase over last year and the first time the campus has topped the $200 million mark. Of the 1,596 grant proposals made in 1998-99, about half were winners, despite increasing competition for funds by universities and other research institutions across the nation.