Community Edition - April 21, 2023
The spring football game is the first chance for fans to see Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders and the Colorado football team in action. If you were lucky enough to get tickets to the sold-out game, here are some new policies and campus impacts you should know before you head out.
In Focus
CU, city and Downtown Boulder Partnership expand ambassador program
An expanded Hill Ambassador Program will feature full-time ambassadors providing a year-round presence that focuses on clean and safe initiatives, as well as hospitality services for both businesses and visitors on the Hill.
CU Boulder doubles size of CU Promise free tuition and fees program
CU Boulder announced a major expansion of its CU Promise program, doubling the number of Colorado resident students with significant financial need who are eligible for free tuition and fees for the 2023–24 academic year.
CU Boulder launches online master’s in computer science on Coursera
A new CU master’s in computer science will be taught by some of the university’s top-ranked faculty and geared toward working professionals seeking advancement in areas such as software engineering and artificial intelligence. Courses begin this August.
5 decades after starting college, tenacious student to graduate
Rita Garson, now 76, will celebrate her special day at CU Boulder with her sister, adult children and grandchildren, two of whom are also alumni.
Discover What’s Here
A music extravaganza: CU at Boettcher series returns May 2
CU at Boettcher is back for the first time since 2020, with the symphony orchestra and all choirs set to perform Carl Orff’s formidable Carmina Burana. The concert also will feature the world premiere of Carter Pann’s symphony, On The Importance of Our Democracy, and a collaboration with the youth music-training program El Sistema.
Research in Your Backyard
World’s largest grammar database reveals accelerating loss of language diversity
A new grammatical database documents the enormous diversity of current languages on the planet, which ones are at risk and why they're worth saving.
Study shows personal disinfection device safe for use in public spaces
Imagine carrying a UV device in your backpack and pulling it out to disinfect your bus seat or restaurant table. A new CU Boulder study shows that using a technology called Far UV-C kills almost 100% of pathogens within a few seconds, without risk to human bystanders.
Chili peppers more deeply rooted in Colorado than previously thought
Recently identified chili pepper fossils from Boulder and Denver museums challenge 50 million years of global evolutionary history. Now, that’s some spicy science!
Grad student helps design ‘artificial muscles’ you can toss in the compost bin
Mechanical engineering student Ellen Rumley was part of a robotics club in high school, but she could never get over the clunkiness of rigid, metal machines. Now, she's designing soft robotic actuators that work like animal muscles. They're also completely biodegradable.