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The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Leeds School of Business and the NorthStone Group have created a partnership to provide leadership and negotiation courses for the school's executive development program. Rollie Heath and Adam J. Goodman will teach the first two courses, "Humanizing the Negotiating Process" and "The Six Questions of Leadership" in spring 2005. Goodman and Heath are both partners at the NorthStone Group, a Colorado-based consulting firm specializing in leadership development and strategic decision services.

University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor James T. Hynes of the chemistry and biochemistry department has been awarded the 2004 Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, the largest award in the field. Carrying a stipend of $10,000, the Hirschfelder Prize is given annually by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Theoretical Chemistry Institute. Hynes was cited in part for his contributions to the theory of chemical reaction rates and mechanisms and of vibrational dynamics in solution.

Each year, thousands of people in Colorado are injured snowboarding or skiing. But according to physiology Professor Robert Mazzeo of the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø, the best way to avoid an injury is to get into shape before you slap on the boards. "Fatigue is one of the primary causes for falls, which is the major cause of injuries in skiing," said Mazzeo. "The best way to battle fatigue is to get into shape before you ski." Mazzeo suggests the following exercises for getting into shape:

After losing both legs to a landmine in Somalia, Ken Rutherford co-founded Landmine Survivor's Network, which shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for its work in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. On Monday, Nov.15, at noon Rutherford will speak on "Landmines and Human Security: The Nobel Peace Prize Winning Movement to Ban Landmines" in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus.