Community Edition - Aug. 23, 2020

Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including stats and items of note on topics like positive cases, isolation, contact tracing and mitigation measures. In this issue: move-in, test completion rates, quarantine numbers and more.

This year’s move-in was unlike any other in the campus’s 144-year history: Students and their loved ones wore face coverings; welcome events rolled out online; and campus residents had to show proof of negative COVID-19 tests. Like everything else, there is a new normal on the CU Boulder campus.

Join an Aug. 25 talk about the role of traditional knowledge and collaborative management in decision-making on public lands. The discussion will include lessons learned from Bears Ears National Monument, recommendations about collaboration between tribes and federal agencies, and more.

Starting Aug. 21, the International Film Series and the University Libraries’ Archives invite you to a virtual screening of an award-winning film that tells the story of the Rocky Flats Plant in Jefferson County, Colorado.

In 1990, NASA’s Voyager 1 took an image of Earth from 4 billion miles away. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this iconic image, TEDxCU 2020 speakers will inspire and challenge us to think about how our past and present could shape our future.

The Conference on World Affairs will host virtual sessions Sept. 10–11. The event themes will include leadership and human connection. Join for the two days, eight sessions and 20-plus speakers.

As students return to campus, a mostly behind-the-scenes team of university staff and scientists has been working to make sure that the air they breathe will be as safe as possible.

A groundbreaking new international research network led by CU Boulder is aimed at understanding how animals use information from odors in their environment to guide behavior, with far-ranging implications for our understanding of the human brain.