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A University of Colorado at Boulder program that pairs newly licensed teachers with master teachers in local school districts has proven highly successful in attracting and retaining excellent teachers. At a time when the nation is facing a projected teacher shortage, retention is becoming increasingly important. Two million new teachers will be needed over the next decade, according to government estimates.

Len Ackland, associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will explore the controversial history of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in an upcoming lecture, " As Rocky Flats Made Nuclear Bombs, Where Were the Media and Citizens?"

Monitoring the way parents and children discuss displays during visits to museums illustrates how parents can help their kids learn about science in informal ways, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study. Professor Steven Guberman of the School of Education led a study that placed transmitting microphones on children and parents as they visited the Denver Museum of Natural History. The 35 volunteer family groups were monitored as they went through the Prehistoric Journey exhibit.

The ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder South Asian Students Association is holding the Indian Classical Music Festival on the Boulder campus from Oct. 23 to Oct. 26 as part of South Asian Awareness Month. Internationally renowned sarod player, Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, will be accompanied by Pandit Nayan Ghosh on the tabla in a concert on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Math Auditorium, room 100.

Services for Ryan James Harrison of Boulder, who died on Monday, Oct. 11, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1820 Broadway, in Denver. Harrison, 20, a junior business major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was born in Los Angeles on June 12, 1979. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was employed by Merrill Lynch and was attending ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Denver this fall while living in Boulder.

One of the nation's foremost diplomatic historians, Professor John Lewis Gaddis of Yale University, will be the inaugural speaker of the Sewall Symposium Series on Thursday, Oct. 21, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Gaddis will speak on "Justice vs. Order: The Past and Future of an American Foreign Policy Dilemma" from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

The University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be the site of the 1999 Fall Boulder Campus Blood Drive. Open to the public, the blood drive will be held in the UMC West Ballroom from Oct. 25 through Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder staff, faculty and students interested in donating blood can sign up for appointments at the UMC Loggia from Oct. 18 through Oct. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by calling the Boulder Staff Council at (303) 492-5473 by noon on Oct. 22.

Editors : Photo opportunity of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ MBA student volunteers painting at Casa de Esperanza, 1520 South Emery St., Longmont, on Saturday, Oct. 23, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Casa de Esperanza is a low income housing project. To get there, take 119 to Longmont. Go right on Main Street, follow to Quebec and go left. Follow to South Emery and go right. As midterms wind down, many University of Colorado at Boulder students are relishing the break. But for some, a Saturday filled with painting, weeding and cleaning will do just fine.

Using data from remote sensing satellites, researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder are investigating a key factor that can be used in predicting the extent of a hurricane's fury. A hurricane's passage over a warm ocean eddy or current has been linked to a marked intensification of hurricane winds.

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder has established the Columbine Unity and Diversity Scholarship for minorities or other pre-journalism majors who help promote diversity through their news coverage. ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder freshmen Issac Lopez and Michelle Flores, the first recipients of the award, each received $1,000. Both students enrolled at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ this semester as pre-journalism majors after they completed a journalism course in the summer of 1998 under ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder's Pre-Collegiate Development Program.