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<p>Colorado business leaders remained confident, although generally less optimistic about the economy looking ahead to the third quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ's Leeds School of Business.</p>

<p>The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ will host the 2011 Linguistics Institute from July 7 to Aug. 2, a prestigious gathering of faculty and students from around the world that also will feature free films, workshops and lectures open to the public.</p>

<p>Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ environmental design students are kicking off a community discussion on the future of University Hill public space through a series of installations being placed throughout the neighborhood this week.</p>

<p>Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØLaw School students to install cookstoves in Peru, combating poverty and global warming</p>

<p>Shane Baldauf, a sophomore in architecture and planning at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ who is dedicated to ‘green' and affordable housing, has been awarded a prestigious Udall Scholarship.</p>

<p>With commencement quickly approaching and spring temperatures warming, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ senior Bryant Mason is working hard to prepare vegetable gardens and get crops in the ground before he graduates.</p>

<p>The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ's "Food and Environmental Justice Week" will be held on campus April 11-17.</p>

<p>The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ's 63rd annual Conference on World Affairs returns to campus April 4-8 with over 200 events including talks, panel discussions and a plenary address by Graham Nash and David Crosby, all of which are free and open to the public.</p>

<p>Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, will speak at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ's Macky Auditorium on Wednesday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. He is coming to campus at the invitation of the Distinguished Speakers Board, a student organization at CU-Boulder.</p>

<p>The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ's Center of the American West will host "Words to Stir the Soul and Reckon with Reality: The Six-Month Anniversary of the Fourmile Canyon Fire" on March 14.</p>