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- On Thursday, April 22, Professor Kent Hutchison will deliver the 116th Distinguished Research Lecture, Understanding the Risks and Benefits of Cannabis Across the Lifespan. Hutchison was one of two faculty members selected to receive the 2020 Distinguished Research Lectureship, which is among the most esteemed honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at CU Boulder.
- Gary Henry has been named the new Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Director of the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG). Henry will begin serving in this role starting May 1, 2021. He will fully assume the position on July 1 when Denitta Ward, who currently serves in the role, retires.
- Upcoming episodes of Buff Innovator Insights, a weekly podcast from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), feature faculty tackling some of the toughest challenges facing the world today: global poverty and racism.
- Victor M. Bright of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and Kent Hutchison of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience have been selected to receive the 2020 Distinguished Research Lectureship.
- New episodes of Buff Innovator Insights, a weekly podcast from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), will feature Lori Peek, director of the Natural Hazards Center, and Sona Dimidjian, director of the Renée Crown Wellness Institute.
- Follow Dr. Jun Ye, director of the CUbit Quantum Initiative, from his childhood in China to helping realize the vast potential of quantum science and technology at CU Boulder today.
- The podcast will offer a behind-the-curtain look at some of the most ground-breaking innovations in the world—all emanating from the CU Boulder campus—along with the personal journeys that made those discoveries possible. The first episode of the inaugural season premiered on Thursday, March 18.
- The pandemic accelerated research and science in unprecedented and unexpected ways. Learn more about what went on behind the scenes at CU Boulder to help combat the negative impacts of this deadly virus and give the world a path forward.
- The Research & Innovation Office has developed additional guidance—in compliance with current COVID-19 dial status and current COVID-19 public health orders—for individuals approved through the Return to On-Campus and Field Work form and process to meet within small groups under certain conditions.
- A proposal by Dr. Chuck Kutscher, a fellow of CU Boulder's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), was recently voted as one of the Clean Economy Employment Now Project’s top three ideas for Congressional budget reconciliation.