Community Edition - Aug. 30, 2020

Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including campus stats and items of note. In this issue: the development of additional dashboard info, weekly screenings, student conduct and more.

Researchers have set up a network to monitor the wastewater leaving residence halls on campus as part of an effort to detect and intercept community spread of COVID-19.

After more than 100 years away, a trove of records from the founding of Steamboat Springs has returned home.

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.

A new study of 22 burn areas across 710 square miles found that forests are not recovering from fires as well as they used to, and many regions will be unsuitable for ponderosa pine and Douglas fir in the coming decades.

A new effort will explore the role that artificial intelligence may play in the future of education and workforce development.

The center will forge the technological solutions needed to harness quantum information science for discoveries that benefit the world.