Community Edition - April 30, 2023

The CU Board of Regents approved a 4% increase in tuition for graduate students and new undergraduate students. The board also heard public comments on concealed carry policies, divestment and sexual assault prevention.

Safe2Tell is one of the options people on the CU Boulder campus have to report threats or potential violence—anonymously. Learn more about the tool and other CU Boulder reporting options.

Commencement and many recognition ceremonies will bring several days of excitement and celebration to the community. This means CU Boulder and city of Boulder roadways will be heavily impacted as well.

The extended campus community is invited to join in celebration of the class of 2023. Read Folsom Field clear bag, safety and concessions info, as well as parking info, and get ready for the big day, which will include remarks from university leaders and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, awards, the Norlin charge and more.

The upcoming Best Should Teach event will recognize outstanding CU Boulder faculty members, K-12 teachers and graduate student instructors, as well as feature Alyssa Hadley Dunn with a lecture on responding to violence in schools.

The study of 46 million births across nearly three decades is among the first to provide population-level statistical evidence of “obstetric racism,” a term coined recently to describe a concerning pattern of maltreatment of non-white pregnant women, including a disregard for their birthing wishes.

A new study led by Angela Bryan, a CU Boulder professor and cancer survivor, is among the first to assess how cannabis bought over the counter at dispensaries—rather than government-supplied or synthetic varieties—impacts cancer symptoms or chemotherapy side effects.

As early as 2030, engineers and robots from Earth could begin construction on an astronomical observatory that would expand over 77 square miles of the moon’s surface—almost entirely using materials mined from the moon itself.