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Thursday, November 05, 2009
	Resistencia Visual: Woodblock Prints from the Oaxacan Assembly of Revolutionary Artists (Multi-Day Event) All Day The UMC Art Gallery, located near the Reception Desk on the second floor of the University Memorial Center, presents a wide variety of art work from national, international, and local artists.
	Alternative Breaks: Service Learning Travel Deadline Extended All Day Apply to travel with Alternative Breaks volunteer trips across the country. Spend Spring Break road tripping with like-minded students to work on service projects on a variety of social justice issues rangin from disaster relief to urban poverty to environmental conservation and youth empowerment. Alternative Breaks- If you think you're too small to make a difference...think again... Visit www.colorado.edu/vrc/altbreaks for more information!
	Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM In May of 2009, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History will open a new exhibition entitled Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes. Presented in three iterations of 20-30 Navajo textiles each, the exhibit will showcase the breadth and depth of the Museum's Joe Ben Wheat Southwestern Textile Collection, considered to be one of the world's best collections of Navajo textiles. A full slate of public and school programming will accompany the exhibit, including a grand opening event; hands-on workshops for adults, parents and children; guided tours; movie showings featuring movies with Navajo directors, producers, and actors; and programs and demonstrations on natural dyes and textile conservation. Judy M. Newland, Faculty Associate and Exhibit Developer at the Arizona State University Museum of Anthropology is the Guest Curator for the exhibition.
	Weaving Memory: Monotypes by Melanie Yazzie 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Artist Melanie Yazzie's prints are inspired by the textiles from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History's Joe Ben Wheat Collection and by memories from Yazzie's childhood with her grandmother Thelma Baldwin, a weaver in Wide Ruins, Arizona.
	Americans In a Changing China: 1920-2008 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Documenting China, Contemporary Photography and Social Change is a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit. The exhibit encompasses three eras of change in China, which is a timely subject as China and its status on the international stage is changing so rapidly. Apart from Hinkley’s experience abroad, the exhibit also includes views of more recent change in China through an exhibit on loan from Bates College Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service from April 11 to June 7, 2009. It illustrates the country’s development during the past 25 years through the lenses of seven Chinese photographers. For more information, please click here.
	24th Annual Navajo Rug Auction 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM Silent auction of the fine textiles presented by the Toh-Aton Gallery of Durango, Colorado. Proceeds benefit the Musuem. Held at the Denver Post, 101 Colfax Avenue, Denver.
	Interacting With Media - Seminar 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Leadership Development Seminars - Interacting with the Media, presented by Bronson Hilliard, Broadcast Media Coordinator For additional information, please click here.
	Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Are you stressed and overwhelmed? Experience the potential life-changing practices of mindfulness, including meditation and gentle yoga. CDs and other materials will be provided to support practice between sessions. For more information please visit Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).
	Dynamic Choices 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM A drop-in group for individuals considering behavior change: if you find yourself doing drugs, alcohol, or any other habitual behavior in a way that is not serving you - this group is for you. You will learn to live in alignment with your values by giving and receiving feedback in a safe place. For more information please visit Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).
	CHA Presents 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM “Immigration and the Practical Majority?” presentations by and conversations with Patty Limerick and Helen Thorpe. Helen Thorpe is a freelance journalist whose magazine stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, Texas Monthly, Westword, and 5280. She is married to John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver. Dr. Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a Professor of History. Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the benefits of applying historical perspective to contemporary dilemmas and conflicts. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and the Arts and Center of the American West.
	Department of Integrative Physiology Colloquium 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM Effects of Acute Exercise on Fat Balance: Insights from Studies Using Calorimetry Presented by Ed Melanson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Center for Human Nutrition University of Colorado at Denver
	Careers in Chemistry & Biochemistry 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Discover careers in your major & tips to find a job. Join a panel of professionals who work in various chemistry-related occupations to discover what career paths may exist, and get advice on how to get started. Ask them whatever is on your mind!
	Nuclear Power: Hype or Hope? 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Please join us for a special event that will rigorously examine the key economic, environmental, and technological issues of nuclear power generation. Distinguished Speakers Dena Volovar, Clean Energy America; Project Manager, Bechtel Corporation James McNeil, Professor of Physics, Colorado School of Mines Jerry Peterson, Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Moderator: Len Ackland, Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado at Boulder Event Sponsors: Center for Energy and Environmental Security, University of Colorado at Boulder, UCB Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Colorado School of Mines, Nuclear Energy Institute
	(Rescheduled) Ace Your Interview! 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Ask your questions and get interviewing tips from a panel of professionals.
	Noy Holland Fiction Reading 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM The Creative Writing Reading Series presents NEA Fellow and National Book Award Nominee Noy Holland, reading from her new short story collection "What Begins with Bird." Noy Holland, National Book Award nominee for her first work of fiction, “Spectacle of the Body” will read from her new story collection “What Begins with Bird.” Her writing has appeared in The American Voice, Ploughshares, Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Conjunctions, Open City, Noon, and other publications. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
	Republican Candidate for Governor Dan Maes At CU 7:00 PM Republican candidate for Governor Dan Maes will be at CU. Dan Maes is a businessman from Greeley, where he lives with his wife and three children. This is your chance to hear, in person, what his ideas are for our state. He's just the first in a long line of 2010 candidates lined up to speak with us at CU!
	Percussion Ensemble 7:30 PM Bizet - Farandole Van der Roost - Canterbury Chorale Bach - Invention in C Major Bach - Invention in D Minor Stout - Mexican Dance No. 2 Levitan - In the Night Kitchen Bach - Chaconne Levitan - Snoozin Down Rouse - Ogoun Badagris Ravel - Trois Chansons Levitan - Yule Flip Beethoven - String Quartet, Op. 1, No. 1 Lipner - Lime Juice Gauger - Gainsborough
	Tales from Nicaragua: Assessing the Potential for Life on Mars (with Dr. Brian Hynek) 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM The search for signatures of past life on Mars is a daunting task. Yet, Mars seems to have had all the ingredients for life to persist in its early history: abundant water, biochemical elements and energy sources for reproductive and metabolic functions. As speculated for Earth, life on Mars may have arisen in hot volcanic environments, relying on chemical energy from interactions of hot water and rock. Come travel into steaming volcanoes deep into the heart of the Americas to find out if Martian life could have existed in similar settings.
	Thursday Night DISCO BOWL! 9:00 PM Every Thursday night, 9pm - close, the mirror ball comes out, the alleys are dark with backlit pins and your favorite tunes are cranked up! Experience the FUN of Disco Bowling!

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