The CU Youth Piano Program has opened the registration period for piano lessons for the spring 2021 semester.

This spring, all lessons will be conducted online. We will re-evaluate the lesson modality every month based on CU and the College of Music guidelines.

Details about the program:

• 14 lessons with experienced graduate teachers
• Options of 30, 45 or 60 minutes per week
• Lessons start after Jan. 14 and follow the CU Boulder calendar
• All levels of experience welcome
• Ages 6–18

Learn more or pre-register.

Struggling with COVID anxiety? Feeling down, hopeless or stuck in a cycle of unproductive worry? Low-cost teletherapy is available through CU Boulder’s Raimy Psychology Clinic, for individuals residing in Colorado. Sessions are held through the videoconferencing platform Zoom.

Raimy Clinic therapists can provide help coping with stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and other difficulties during this very challenging time! Special low rates are available for all CU Boulder students, staff and faculty, or family members of full-time staff or faculty. Therapy is free for freshman students! Openings for new clients are available now. Email or call now to start the intake process.

For more information, call our intake coordinator, Julia Salinger, at 303-492-5177; email raimy@colorado.edu; or visit our website.

On Friday, Jan. 15, classes will follow a Wednesday class meeting schedule (excludes law). 

What does this mean for your schedule?

• If you have a class scheduled to meet on Wednesdays, it will meet on Friday, Jan. 15, at the regularly scheduled Wednesday time. 
• If you have a class scheduled to meet on Fridays (not Wednesdays), it won’t meet on Friday, Jan. 15, but will meet as usual on Friday, Jan. 22.

See the revised spring 2021 academic calendar for more information and other important dates.

CU Athletics and Recreation Services invite you to join us for our annual Inclusive Sport Summit on Feb. 16. This year’s theme is “Lead like a champion: Paving the way to an equitable playing field.”

During this summit participants will:

• Learn what equity is and how it impacts athletes across disciplines, identities and age groups.
• Identify strategies they can use to be an effective ally and promote equity on campus and within the greater community.
• Build skills and practice techniques for addressing inequities to help increase student retention, engagement and success.
• Connect with departments and programs across campus that are available to support students, staff and faculty.

The Inclusive Sports Summit is free and open to faculty, staff, students and community members.

Call for proposals

The call for presentation proposals is currently open. The deadline to submit is Friday, Jan. 14. Submit here.

The city of Boulder is extending the Restaurant S.O.S. (safe ordering service) Program to offer free delivery to both customers and restaurants in Boulder until funding runs out, anticipated at least through January 2021, through Nosh Boulder.

The Restaurant S.O.S. Program was launched in November to assist local restaurants and incentivize residents to support their favorite restaurants with delivery meals to enjoy food safer at home. Please visit Nosh Boulder to see the list of Boulder restaurants available for delivery at this time. More than 70 Boulder restaurants are available for delivery, and more restaurants are being added. 

For more program details for both restaurants and for the general public, please see the frequently asked questions (FAQs) in both English (PDF) and in Spanish (PDF). Restaurants can sign up with Nosh Boulder on their restaurant sign-up form. The Nosh Boulder app is available in the Apple App Store and in the Google Play Store.

Businesses can find resources at the city of Boulder website.

Faculty and staff: Nominate an outstanding CU Boulder student-employee for Student Employee of the Year! 

Student Employment within the Office of Financial Aid will recognize and honor student-employees for their contributions to the university community. Students are nominated by faculty and staff members. Nominations are due Jan. 15, 2021. Get details.

Humor is a tool underutilized in the area of climate change; yet comedy has power to effectively connect people, information, ideas and new ways of thinking/acting.

In this sixth annual competition, we seek to harness the powers of climate comedy through compelling, resonant and meaningful videos—up to 2 minutes in length—to meet people where they are, and open them up to new and creative engagement. 

• 1st place: $400 prize
• 2nd place: $250 prize
• 3rd place: $100 prize

Submit by April 1. Get details.

The CU Youth Piano Program has opened the registration period for piano lessons for the spring 2021 semester.

This spring, all lessons will be conducted online. We will re-evaluate the lesson modality every month based on CU and the College of Music guidelines.

Details about the program:

• 14 lessons with experienced graduate teachers
• Options of 30, 45 or 60 minutes per week
• Lessons start after Jan. 14 and follow the CU Boulder calendar
• All levels of experience welcome
• Ages 6–18

Learn more or pre-register.

Take piano lessons with an undergraduate piano intern this semester! These lessons are for students, staff or faculty who have had at least three years of previous piano instruction (no exceptions this semester).

The instructors are undergraduate piano majors in their senior year. No university credit. Professor Alejandro Cremaschi supervises the interns.

Because of COVID-19 limitations, all lessons will happen online. You must have a piano or keyboard. Get details.

Struggling with COVID anxiety? Feeling down, hopeless or stuck in a cycle of unproductive worry? Low-cost teletherapy is available through CU Boulder’s Raimy Psychology Clinic, for individuals residing in Colorado. Sessions are held through the videoconferencing platform Zoom.

Raimy Clinic therapists can provide help coping with stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and other difficulties during this very challenging time! Special low rates are available for all CU Boulder students, staff and faculty, or family members of full-time staff or faculty. Therapy is free for freshman students! Openings for new clients are available now. Email or call now to start the intake process.

For more information, call our intake coordinator, Julia Salinger, at 303-492-5177; email raimy@colorado.edu; or visit our website.

We’re hosting our first ever virtual regional competition for the National Ocean Sciences Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021! We are hoping to engage 40 volunteers (science background not required).

The National Ocean Sciences Bowl is an academic competition for high school students. Teams of students compete in single-team round-robins and head-to-head double eliminations by answering all manner of ocean science trivia.

Quick summary

• We’re anticipating 10–11 virtual rooms simultaneously in the morning, so we really need help with morning rounds.
• 11 teams from four states are signed up so far.
• We’ll have lots of virtual trainings available at the end of January, plus recorded trainings.
• Flexible shifts available. 

Volunteer roles

• Science Judge: Recognizes teams and resets the lockout system/buzzer. This position needs a device capable of running Java.
• Time Keeper/Score Keeper: Combines the two roles of Time Keeper and Score Keeper, however we’ll use an integrated interface so you won’t need to do any mental math or maintain a physical time clock—it will all be in one place online.
• Rules Judge/Room Officiant: Take challenges to competition staff, watches student video screens for signs of cheating, maintains a hard copy scoresheet (in Excel).

Sign up to volunteer.

The Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) is hiring a diversity and inclusion chair for spring 2021. No prior experience with GPSG is necessary to apply. Please submit your application by Friday, Jan. 8.

The diversity and inclusion chair oversees diversity and inclusion efforts and initiatives for the benefit of the CU Boulder graduate and professional student community. The position also communicates and collaborates with other diversity and inclusion initiatives originating in different offices around campus. Responsibilities include weekly meetings for GPSG officer team and attending assembly meetings.

The pay for this position is $125 every two weeks. The term for this position ends in May 2021. Please contact Em (vpinternal.gpsg@colorado.edu) and Edu (diversity.gpsg@colorado.edu) with any questions about the position.

In alignment with much of campus, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) will provide limited support Dec. 28–31. While the IT Service Center and Buff Techs desktop support service will have a reduced staff on hand to provide basic support services during this timeframe, OIT will be available only to assure that critical services remain operational during this period. Support cases that cannot be resolved by IT Service Center or Buff Techs will be addressed starting Jan. 4.

The city of Boulder would like to thank CU students, faculty and staff who participated in the city’s recent Retail S.O.S. gift card program to support Boulder retailers. The program was a big success and is now closed. Purchasers have until the end of the day on Dec. 30 to spend their Boulder Bonus Bucks cards, but the purchased Boulder gift cards do not expire—purchasers can spend those at the over 100 merchants listed.

From now through Dec. 30, the city will fund the Restaurant S.O.S. program to eliminate all delivery fees and other service charges for restaurant orders through Nosh Boulder. New customers can get a one-time $10 off of orders of $25 or more (use coupon code NOSHCITY). As an additional benefit to the local restaurant industry, the company has agreed to cap their delivery fees for participating Boulder restaurants at 15% through 2021. This is a great way to support our local restaurants while dining safely at home!

The offices of the Bursar, Registrar, Admissions and Financial Aid will be closed Dec. 24–25 and Jan. 1, with a large number of staff on leave Dec. 28–31. Normal business hours will resume at 9 a.m. on Jan. 4, 2021.