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Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 03:16:05 MDT
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:16:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Buff Bulletin <memofrom@Colorado.EDU> Subject: Buff Bulletin 04/20/2008
SUBJECT: Buff Bulletin 04/20/2008
Buff Bulletin
20 April 2008, Sunday
A Boulder Campus digest of current events
In this issue:
--- Beth Hanson Retires
--- The Center for Asian Studies Presents an Earth Day Talk:
Faces in the Trees
--- Affording Study Abroad: Interest Meeting, April 22
--- Request Your CULearn Course Now
--- Classified Staff Performance Evaluations
--- Earth Day Bazaar, April 22
--- EarthDance:The Short-Attention-Span Environmental
Film Festival, April 22
--- Campus Sustainability Awards Ceremony, April 25
--- E-Center April Newsletter Now Online!
BETH HANSON RETIRES
Please join us in the celebration of Beth Hanson's 18 years of service
to CU. Her retirement party is on Friday, May 2, 3-5 p.m., Department of
Geological Sciences, Benson Earth Sciences Building, Room 380.
Contact: Barbara Amaral, (303)492-8141
THE CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES PRESENTS AN EARTH DAY TALK:
FACES IN THE TREES
Please join CAS for an Earth Day Talk by David Haberman, Professor of
Religious Studies at Indiana University. In this talk, Haberman will
focus his attention on the worship of neem trees, regarded as the
embodied forms of a Hindu goddess. Tuesday, April 22, 4 p.m., Humanities
150. For more information, please contact Danielle Salaz,
danielle.salaz@colorado.edu.
Contact: Danielle Salaz
Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/cas/Apr08calendar.html
AFFORDING STUDY ABROAD: INTEREST MEETING, APRIL 22
Do you have students who are you interested in studying abroad, but are
concerned that they can't afford to? Send them to this meeting to learn
more about how to select a more affordable program option, maximize
scholarship opportunities and how to use financial aid to study abroad,
and tell them to bring their questions! Tuesday, April 22, 5-6:30 p.m,
Muenzinger E0046.
Contact: Cindy Kraft, Cindy.Bosley@Colorado.EDU
Additional information: http://studyabroad.colorado.edu
REQUEST YOUR CULEARN COURSE NOW
Request your CULearn course now and avoid the start-of-the-semester
crunch. Reserve your CULearn courses now for the coming summer and/or
fall semesters. Requests for courses should be made through the Faculty
Tool Kit channel in CUConnect. You can request new blank courses, or
courses based on a course template already in the system dating as far
back as two years (summer '06 or fall '06). For more about CULearn, go
to http://www.colorado.edu/its/culearn/.
Contact: IT Service Center
Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/its/culearn/
CLASSIFIED STAFF PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS
The 2007-2008 performance evaluation period ended March 31. Supervisors
must complete an evaluation for all classified staff in permanent
positions including retirees and 1% on-call employees by their
department's April deadline to ensure that all evaluations are received
by the Office of Labor Relations by May 1st (No Exceptions). For more
information please call Brett Rogers in the Office of Labor Relations at
303-735-5720 or visit our website at:
http://www.colorado.edu/humres/performance
Contact: Brett Rogers, Office of Labor Relations, 303-735-5720
EARTH DAY BAZAAR, APRIL 22
Tuesday, April 22 is Earth Day! Join in on CU's Earth Day celebration.
The Earth Day Bazaar will be held from 10:30 a.m. until well into the
evening, with its roots spread throughout campus. Stop by the Social
Action Station at the UMC Fountain, participate in the activities on
Norlin Quad, or get inspired by the EarthDance Film Festival. Click here
http://ecenter.colorado.edu/events/index.html for more information.
Contact: CU Environmental Center
Additional information: http://ecenter.colorado.edu/events/index.html
EARTHDANCE: THE SHORT-ATTENTION-SPAN ENVIRONMENT FILM FESTIVAL, APRIL 22
April 22, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. in Humanities 1B50: EarthDance, helping you
see green - on Earth Day! EarthDance is not your average film festival.
The 20 short films (30 seconds to 30 minutes each) are a fun, funny and
provocative lot. Compiled into 90 minute blocks, the juried compilation
of comedies, documentaries, animations and adventures invite you to
laugh and celebrate your relationship to the natural world.
Contact: CU Environmental Center
Additional information: http://ecenter.colorado.edu/events/index.html
CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS CEREMONY, APRIL 25
Friday, April 25, 8-9 a.m., UMC Aspen Rooms Campus. CU will recognize
the significant achievements and extraordinary efforts of outstanding
individuals and departments at the annual sustainability awards
ceremony. To attend the ceremony, RSVP to ecenter@colorado.edu or
303-492-8308 by April 22nd. This event is sponsored by the Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs, Vice Chancellor for Administration and
the UCSU Environmental Center.
Contact: CU Environmental Center
Additional information: http://ecenter.colorado.edu/events/index.html
E-CENTER APRIL NEWSLETTER NOW ONLINE!
The April 2008 CU Environmental Center newsletter "Earth Day edition" is
now online! Behind on your sustainability news? Read up on all things
green at CU: http://ecenter.colorado.edu/. To subscribe for this monthly
email newsletter, send a request to ecenter@colorado.edu. And don't
forget Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22! Visit
http://ecenter.colorado.edu/events/index.html for a complete list of CU
Earth Day events.
Contact: CU Environmental Center
Additional information:
http://ecenter.colorado.edu/
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