The Campus Sustainability Roundtable will be held November 30 from 9 am-1 pm in UMC Room 245. This semi-annual event serves to update departmental and operational staff, as well as interested public, about progress and strategic directions in campus sustainability issues and initiatives. The roundtable will feature updates and discussions, and is free and open to all. Seating is limited. For more information, contact Marianne Martin at marianne.martin@colorado.edu.

Our lab in the CU-Boulder department of psychology is looking for participants for multiple experiments about human learning, memory, perception, and language. Participants will be paid for their participation. You must be 18-29 years old and right handed to participate. If you are eligible to participate and interested, please visit our website http://psych.colorado.edu/~tclab/signup.html for more information and to sign up for our experiments.

ADAPT is a place for young people ages 12-21 who are worried about experiencing unusual thoughts, suspiciousness or paranoia, or seeing or hearing things that are not there. Earn $25 for participating in a short screening interview. You may be invited to participate in a 2-year longitudinal study ($25 per hour for 7-9 hours each year). For more information please call 303.492.4616 or visit http://www.adaptprogram.com.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival offers after-school theatre classes and workshops for kids and teens, held at Wesley Chapel. Upcoming workshops: Go shake your ears: A Shakespearean insult workshop (Dec. 22) Twelfth Night in a Day (Jan. 12) Winter session classes (Jan.-Apr.): Young Shakespeareans (ages 8-11) Speaking Shakespeare: Voice practice for the young actor (ages 12-18) For more information, or to register, visit: http://www.coloradoshakes.org/education-outreach/school or call (303) 492-1973

The Center for Humanities and the Arts invites you to this month’s Performance Friday! featuring excerpts from Theatre and Dance’s production of A Broadway Christmas Carol. This production is a hilarious, charming reboot of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale featuring parodies of some of Broadway’s most familiar and beloved show tunes. Please join us November 30th, from 12:00-1:00 pm, in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin Library’s 5th Floor). Doors open at 11:30 am for a free, light lunch.

Come for this 1.5 hour, hands-on introduction to one of the most exciting and easy-to-use website creation tools available today. Google Sites allows you to quickly create and edit websites for online resumes, projects, classes, or personal use. No coding/web-design background is required, and you will have your own website started by the end of the session. Take advantage of this no-cost session for CU-Boulder students and staff by registering via the Website link. Event Date: Tue, 11/27/2012 - 3 to 4:30 p.m.

The Cognitive Development Center in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience is looking for children age birth to 14 years old who are interested in playing games that will help teach us about memory and language development. A visit, scheduled at your convenience, lasts about 30 minutes. Babysitting is available for siblings. Parents are compensated for travel and kids receive a fun prize. For more information or to sign up, see our information below or call Julia at 303-492-6389.

Would you like to help make CU-Boulder a more supportive place for LGBTQ and allied community members? Join us for a discussion of gender and sexual diversity, allyship, and Colorado and CU-Boulder-specific LGBTQ policies and services. Date: Thursday, November 29 Time: noon-2pm Place: UMC 425

Come learn Hebrew, one of the official languages of the modern State of Israel, and the language of the Bible. Knowing Hebrew opens a door to understanding contemporary Israeli culture, and makes for an immediate understanding of the Bible without the mediation of translators and their interpretations of the text Spring Course Offerings: HEBR 1020, Beginning Hebrew 2, 10-10:50 M-Th; HEBR 2110, Intermediate Hebrew 1, 1-1:50 M-Th; HEBR 2120, Intermediate Hebrew 2, 11-11:50 M-Th; HEBR 3020, Third Year Hebrew 2, 8:35-9:50 MW

RUSS 2221: Modern Russian Culture. The Soviet Union no longer exists, but modern Russian culture and society are inevitably connected to the experience of communism and revolution. This course will address major themes in Russian and Soviet culture, including the roles of the intellectual and the arts under a totalitarian regime. We will attempt to understand how past events affect social and cultural forces in Russia today. This course fills the core curriculum for “historical context.”