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The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a public panel discussion on Monday, Oct. 16, about Amendment 39 and Referendum J, two November ballot initiatives that could change how Colorado funds public schools. Co-sponsored by the Education and Public Interest Center in CU-Boulder's School of Education and the Colorado Children's Campaign, the panel discussion will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the Boulder campus.

Engineering students at the University of Colorado at Boulder are finding more meaningful-and often better paying-part-time jobs in their pursuits of education, thanks to a program that also helps the college stretch its limited budget.

Setting foot in a classroom as a new teacher can be overwhelming enough to ground many fledgling teachers before they even take off. But the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Education is striving to make the process less daunting by pairing newly licensed teachers with experienced teachers from local school districts. And at the same time, the new teachers get a head start on their master's degrees.

A region of the human brain that scientists believe is critical to human intellectual abilities surprisingly functions much like a digital computer, according to psychology Professor Randall O'Reilly of the University of Colorado at Boulder. The finding could help researchers better understand the functioning of human intelligence. In a review of biological computer models of the brain appearing in the Oct. 6 edition of the journal Science, O'Reilly contends that the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia operate much like a digital computer system.