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Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, City Auditor Dennis Gallagher, City Councilwoman Rosemary Rodriguez and Lakewood Mayor Steve Burkholder will be among the featured readers during the eight annual "Words to Stir the Soul: Readings from the American West" events presented by the CU-Boulder Center of the American West.

A University of Colorado at Boulder science policy center has received a $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the process of decision making in uncertain situations as part of the U.S. Climate Change Research Initiative. Awarded to the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, the five-year grant will focus on improving the connection between the nation's multi-billion dollar investment in climate research and those making climate-related decisions, said Director Roger Pielke Jr.

Lorrie Shepard, dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, announced the school has issued a clarification of registration guidelines via email for a class that last week raised questions about the possibility of discrimination.

Jim Fadenrecht, chief of the CU-Boulder Police department since 1991 and a 30-year veteran of the department, has announced his retirement effective Jan. 31, 2005. In a memo to Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration, Fadenrecht said, "My employment at CU has now spanned over three decades and I've decided it's time to transition into another phase of life." Fadenrecht praised the public safety staff, which he called "a committed and talented work force" and said the announcement was made "with mixed emotions."

Editors: Doug Duncan is available for interviews. For visuals, Fiske Planetarium has a large meteorite on display and Duncan also has a portable, baseball-sized meteorite. Call Duncan at (303) 492-5003 or Mike Liguori at (303) 492-3117 to arrange an interview. University of Colorado at Boulder astrophysicist Doug Duncan says this year's annual Perseid meteor shower and its natural nighttime light show will be particularly good as the display becomes visible over Colorado Aug. 10-13.

Editors: Contents embargoed until July 29 at 2 p.m. EDT. A new study of California's southern Sierra Nevada range by a University of Colorado at Boulder research team has located a massive body of rock that sank into Earth's mantle some 3.5 million years ago, allowing the mountains to pop up. Undertaken with a high-tech suite of instruments designed to probe the geology to roughly 125 miles below Earth's surface, the study illustrated the mountain building process in the southern Sierras with unprecedented detail.

An internal investigation of financial transactions in the linguistics department at the University of Colorado at Boulder has led to the arrest of a staff member on charges related to alleged misappropriation of university funds. Ruth Ann Cameron, an administrative staff member in the department since 1995, was arrested by the University of Colorado Police Department Tuesday, July 27, on the Boulder campus. She was arrested under a warrant following a meeting at the university internal auditor's office.

A satellite designed, built and controlled at the University of Colorado at Boulder for NASA has returned data indicating both Venus and sunspots have something in common -- they block some of the sun's energy going to Earth. Data from The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, or SORCE, satellite show when the shadow of Venus tracked across the face of the sun June 8 as the planet passed between Earth and the sun, the amount of sunlight reaching Earth decreased by 0.1 percent, said CU-Boulder's Gary Rottman.

Kyle Reinholt, a senior at Horizon High School in Thornton, is the 2004 recipient of the University of Colorado at Boulder Parents Association CU-LEAD Scholarship. The CU Leadership, Excellence, Achievement and Diversity scholarship consists of $10,000 divided into four annual supplements of $2,500. The award was presented to Reinholt at a July 23 banquet for high school students who successfully completed the CU-Boulder Pre-Collegiate Development Summer Residential Program.

Professor Jim Symons of the University of Colorado at Boulder department of theater and dance will receive a national award from the Association for Theater in Higher Education on July 29 in Toronto, Canada. Symons is the winner of the association's "Outstanding Teacher of Theater in Higher Education" award, given once a year. With a membership of 2,000, the ATHE is the principal professional organization for theater professors in American colleges and universities.