Buff Bulletin Board

The Buff Bulletin Board, a listing of campus announcements, is a service of Campus Communications.

 

You could be the cure: Visit Be the Match tables on campus

Be the Match flyer.

Join Be The Match efforts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on campus now through March 22.

Help add new potential blood stem cell donors to the registry. Why? Because every three to four minutes in the United States someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer or blood disorder, and it could be you or someone you love. Seventy percent of patients need an unrelated donor to treat their disease.

The cure is literally in you, and 90 percent of the time, donation is similar to giving platelets or plasma. Be on the look out for tables across campus––at the UMC, Rec Center, Engineering Center, C4C and Farrand Field––through March 22 

Worried about your child's academic, social or behavioral problems?

Affordable psychotherapy is available at the Raimy Clinic in the Muenzinger Psychology Building on the CU Boulder campus. Raimy Clinic therapists can provide help for children and young adolescents who are struggling with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, ADHD or social and academic difficulties, among other problems. Special low rates are available for children of all full-time CU Boulder students, staff and faculty.

For more information, parents please call our intake coordinator Anna Gilmour at 303-492-5177, email raimy@colorado.edu or visit our website.

Contribute to the Seniors Creating Future Buffs Scholarship

As a part of its mission, Senior Class Council oversee the Seniors Creating Future Buffs Scholarship. The scholarship provides current students an opportunity to support future Buffs, ensuring they have access to the diverse range of opportunities provided by CU Boulder.

By making a donation to the Seniors Creating Future Buffs Scholarship, you will be commemorating the value of your university education while giving noteworthy students the ability to become a Forever Buff. Any donation amount is impactful and contributes to the success of future classes here at CU Boulder for many years to come.

Donate

Visit the Seniors Creating Future Buffs Scholarship webpage

All scholarship donors are eligible to wear the Blue Contribution Cord at commencement. To pick up your cord, simply bring your donation confirmation email to the Center for Student Involvement, located on the third floor of the University Memorial Center (UMC) during normal business hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday).

Register for Intro to River Kayaking

Outdoor Pursuits at the Rec Center offers a number of kayaking courses. Most of these courses take place in the Clare Pool of the Rec Center, but they are designed to prepare participants for kayaking outdoors on rivers and lakes.

Intro to River Kayaking will allow you to practice all of your pool skills on moving water. You will learn about equipment requirements, how to scout and run rapids as well as other essential skills. Kayak equipment and transportation is provided.

Prerequisites: 

  • Must first attend at least one Kayak Roll Session; highly encouraged to take the Beginning Kayak pool class too
  • Must be able to swim
  • Must be able to hold your breath for at least 10 seconds under water

The course will take place Saturday, April 23, at Clear Creek. Registration deadline is 5 p.m. April 19. Course fee is $90.

Looking for a job after graduation? Teach For America deadline March 23

Join Teach For America to become part of a majority-BIPOC network of leaders shaping our country's political, economic and social future. 

Want to explore if this is right for you? Grab coffee with your fellow Buff, representative Gaby Johnson to learn more about the application and check out some of the inspiring ways Teach For America alumni are disrupting inequity across education, business, policy, law, medicine and more. 

Submit your two-hour application to the 2023 corps by our final deadline Thursday, March 23. Graduating seniors and graduate students of all majors accepted. Full salary and benefits plus a $5K-$10K stipend and up to $12K Americorps grant.

Do you live off campus? Pick up your trash to avoid a citation

Picking up your trash is even more important now that the Boulder City Council recently passed an ordinance that adds a civil violation to the city’s trash violation process.

Starting Saturday, March 18, the ordinance will make it easier for police officers to issue you a trash citation. Under the previous process, residents would receive a warning to clean up their trash by a certain deadline. If the violation was not fixed in time, an officer would have served the resident a criminal summons, which needs to be received in person and signed by the resident.

The new civil process still includes a warning to clean up by a certain deadline. However, instead of an officer needing to serve you a criminal summons in person, they can post the civil citation on your door or email it to your landlord. This change saves time for officers and makes it easier to deliver a citation.

The new process also established new fines:

  • $100 for a first offense
  • $250 for a second offense
  • $500 for a third offense

Students can get free trash bags from Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations by stopping by their office in UMC 313.

CU Boulder alerts system test set for March 21

A person checks a laptop and a mobile phone.

As part of the continuous assessment of our emergency notification protocols and procedures, campus officials will test the CU Boulder alerts system at approximately 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21.

This test was originally scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 28. However, due to a high number of alerts sent to the CU Boulder community in the preceding week, the test was rescheduled.

The biannual testing, required by a federal law known as the Clery Act, involves checking the university’s systems for sending text messages, emails, social media posts, computer desktop alerts and website announcements. This testing helps ensure we’re staying up to date with best practices and maintaining readiness to respond in case of emergencies.

Get more information on the types of emergency notifications campus provides. Also, review what to know about how campus emergency notifications work.

Participants needed for study on nutrition, insulin, cannabis

Looking for adults (ages 21–40) to participate in a paid research study. The CUChange lab is conducting a study on acute cannabis use. The goal is to better understand the effects of cannabis on inflammation and blood sugar regulation.

Participation in this study involves two in-person appointments over the course of one week. These appointments include blood collection through an intravenous catheter (IV), two oral glucose tests and a series of confidential surveys about health, diet and exercise.

Participants can earn up to $200 for completing the study.

Requirements:

  • 21–40 years old
  • Have used cannabis at least once
  • Have not used cannabis in the last 3 months
  • Are willing to use cannabis at one of the appointments

If you are interested, please complete the eligibility survey. For more information, please contact sonic.custudy@gmail.com.

Chronic back pain? Participants needed for research study

Person holding their back in pain; text reads 'Back pain? Research participants wanted'

The Pain Lab at CU Boulder, affiliated with the Institute of Cognitive Science, is seeking participants ages 21–70 for a research study with non-invasive wearable sensors.

You may be eligible if you have experienced back pain for the last three-plus months. Participants will be compensated up to $360.

If you're interested, fill out the eligibility screening form. We will contact you regarding your eligibility.