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Community Edition - Feb. 21, 2021

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Chancellor Philip DiStefano

Chancellor’s outreach series to highlight inclusion, student wellness, storytelling, more

General Mind & Body Events & Exhibits Campus Community
CU Boulder Where You Are will feature four episodes this season on what a holistic approach to student wellness really means, why inclusion matters, the power of storytelling and how the scientific process can help us build cultural understanding.
Christine Darden working as an engineer in 1976. (Credit: NASA)

Register to hear NASA legend Christine Darden speak Feb. 23

Lectures & Presentations Events & Exhibits
The BOLD Center and the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences will host a special presentation by NASA's Christine Darden. Darden will be speaking as a part of Black History Month celebrations, sharing her fascinating life experiences as an engineer.
Panelists at an upcoming Coloradan Conversations event

Tune in Feb. 24 for Coloradan Conversations: From discussion to action

Lectures & Presentations Events & Exhibits
Join CU students, Forever Buffs and expert panelists to discuss anti-racism and how we move forward. This first virtual Coloradan Conversation will bring stories from the Coloradan alumni magazine to life.
A screenshot from 'Walden, a game'

Whaaat!? Festival offers video gamers a walk in the woods: Join Feb. 24

General Events & Exhibits
As part of the ATLAS Institute’s Whaaat!? Festival, Tracy Fullerton, creator of the award-winning "Walden, a game," will lead an interactive excursion into the innovative world of nature and video games in an online talk.
A stock image of a light bulb representing an idea

How CU Built This—an event Feb. 25

General Events & Exhibits
Hear from CU’s very own entrepreneurs (and alumni of the New Venture Challenge) about fostering innovation, undergoing the startup journey and how higher education is transforming to support original thinking.
Helmut Müller-Sievers

Helmut Müller-Sievers to deliver Distinguished Research Lecture March 10

Lectures & Presentations Events & Exhibits
Helmut Müller-Sievers, a professor in the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literature, will deliver a virtual lecture, “On Common Ground­—Goethe, the Modern Novel and the Diversity of Experience."

In Focus

A Protect Our Herd–face covering required sign at the entrance of Farrand Field

COVID-19 campus updates: Feb. 18 edition

Safety Campus Community
Through the spring semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: Updates on testing locations and hours; the status of wastewater testing; expanded building access; and more.
Colorado capitol building (Photo by Andrew Coop on Unsplash)

CU professor, regents testify for in-state tuition for American Indian students with Colorado ties

Experts Shaping Policy Campus Community
A number of CU affiliates testified before the Colorado Senate Education Committee, expressing support for a bill that would grant in-state tuition to members of American Indian nations with historical ties to Colorado.

Research in Your Backyard

Jared Beshai conducts manual readings in a lab working on a new technique to harvest electricity from blood sugar. (Photo provided)

CU Boulder, CU Anschutz experimenting with blood sugar to power prostheses

Health & Society News Headlines
CU Boulder and CU Anschutz researchers are developing a new technique to harvest electricity from blood sugar to power medical devices as part of a project with Department of Veterans Affairs.
Mark Rentschler in lab

Futurum partnership puts CU research in the hands of younger students

Science & Technology News Headlines
A swallowable, remote-controlled robot that roams around inside a person’s intestines, using tools to perform procedures and sending back a live video stream of this funky pink environment? Now that’s some seriously cool science.
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman

How computers see us: Doctoral student working to curb discrimination by artificial intelligence

Health & Society Students in Focus News Headlines Campus Community
Facial recognition technology is now embedded in everything from our phones and computers to surveillance systems at the mall and airport. But it tends to misidentify certain populations and can be used to discriminate. Microsoft Research Fellow Morgan Klaus Scheuerman wants to change that.

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