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.

Looking for housing for next semester or next year? The fall virtual CU Housing Expo is still going on through the end of December! Visit the Virtual Housing Expo page to register for the free expo and connect with off-campus property managers, vendors, city offices and to review pre-recorded videos and presentations.

Have questions or additional needs? Please feel free to contact Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations for assistance.

The 2021–22 McNair Scholar application is now open to all eligible sophomores and juniors at CU Boulder. 

The McNair Scholars Program is a federal TRiO Program at 187 universities across the United States. The two-year program is designed to prepare undergraduates from underrepresented background with high academic potential who are committed to attending a graduate school to earn a PhD or EdD. We support first-generation, low-income and underrepresented juniors and seniors through research funding, professional development and graduate school preparation.

The deadline to apply is Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021.

Please visit the website for more information and to apply. If you have any questions, contact Program Coordinator Joanne Liu at mcnairscholars@colorado.edu.

This spring (2021), STEM Routes partners with several CU faculty members to bring you paid 8- and 16-week research opportunities intended to develop you as a scientist—that means you don’t need previous research or lab experience to apply.

STEM Routes Uplift has been designed with the intent of minimizing the barriers that underrepresented minorities face when engaging with research.

You can apply for a paid research position on up to five of the projects in our database. We encourage you to read through the current projects.  If you don’t see something that interests you now, check back later, as our project pool is being continually updated. 

Check out the website for details and send questions to the STEM Routes team at stem_routes@colorado.edu.

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

Get details or pre-register now.

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.

For the month of winter break, look for the student and faculty-staff editions of CU Boulder Today in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. However, the publication will take recesses on Dec. 24, as well as Dec. 28 to Jan. 3. As always, the publication is available online.

Need to subscribe? Sign up for the newsletter and be in the know!

CU Boulder's International English Center and Department of Linguistics are offering two remote 3-credit courses for speakers of English as an additional language in spring 2021: Academic Oral Communication in English and English for Academic Purposes.

LING 3200 Academic Oral Communication in English

Remote: Tuesday/Thursday 8–9:15 a.m.
This course improves students' oral communication skills for effective academic interactions. Specific attention is given to presentation skills of developing, explaining and clarifying ideas, and discussion skills including interrupting, hedging and responding to questions. Students deliver formal presentations and impromptu speeches and lead and participate in group discussions. Students improve active listening skills, non-verbal communication and English pronunciation. 

LING 3210 English for Academic Purposes

Remote: Tuesday/Thursday 5:30–6:45 p.m.
This course develops academic English skills for university-level work. Students sharpen English accuracy through academic reading, writing, speaking and listening practice. They learn to express ideas more clearly, both orally and in writing, while engaging critically in class discussions, and giving presentations, including on a researched topic related to their major. Students improve grammatical accuracy, vocabulary development and critical thinking.

Courses satisfy elective credit for undergraduate degree completion. See your advisor for information about how and when to 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.

Any student, alumni, faculty or staff is encouraged to submit a play (or two or three) to this year’s New Play Festival—hosted by CU Boulder Department of Theatre & Dance and helmed by graduate students Matara Hitchcock, Ashlyn Barnett, Heather Kelly, Hanna Golan, Nolan Carey and Ben Stasny.

There are four categories:

• Full Length
• 1 Acts
• 10 Minute Plays
• Performance Scenarios

All selected works receive staged readings and are offered a feedback session during the festival. The winner becomes incorporated into the Department of Theatre & Dance's next season as a full production! 

The submission deadline is Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021.

We are also looking for actors, directors, play readers and more! Be a pal and give us a like on Facebook CU Boulder 5th Annual New Play Festival to stay up to date, and be sure to check out our website for more information.

ASSETT (Arts & Science Support of Education Through Technology) is in the the process of creating a self-help service for CU students that will allow access to digital copies of syllabi from previous semesters. The service is still in development, and we would like to get student feedback on a prototype to improve the new service. 

All volunteers will be compensated for their time with a $5 Amazon gift card. User experience testing takes 15 minutes and is conducted remotely via Zoom. All you need is an internet connected device. 

If you would like to volunteer to help us improve this service, please fill out the survey with your information and availability. If you have questions or concerns, please email the project manager Jacie Moriyama at jacie.moriyama@colorado.edu. 
 

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.

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.

The Office of Conflicts of Interest & Commitment (COIC) is transitioning to a new InfoEd reporting system, which includes a revamp of the disclosure form (DEPA Form). The transition to the InfoEd reporting system and the new DEPA Form is underway and will be in effect for 2021.

In an effort to identify barriers to student learning and academic success during the pandemic, the Boulder Faculty Assembly's Student Affairs Committee held a series of focus groups last week with undergraduate and graduate students.
 
The SAC will be drafting a list of pandemic-related recommendations on best pedagogical practices for faculty, and the SAC would like to give students who were unable to attend a focus group the chance to share their perspectives. Students are strongly encouraged to make their voices heard and to offer their suggestions by completing a brief anonymous survey. The survey closes at midnight on Friday, Nov. 28.