Community Edition - Jan. 28, 2020
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Challenger, Columbia memorial event to be held Feb. 2
The annual memorial event will take place on campus at 9:38 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, to honor the astronauts who perished in the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
Top ranked match-ups in store this weekend for Colorado women’s basketball
This weekend the Colorado women’s basketball team will face two top 10 teams. Colorado track and field along with tennis are also home this week.
CU on the Weekend lectures begin Feb. 15
Join us this spring for free lectures on cannabis research, the Parker Solar Probe mission, British history and Latin inscriptions, and more. This series starts Feb. 15 and features some of CU Boulder's most dynamic faculty.
Newly minted professors of distinction to be celebrated
Four faculty members have been named professors of distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences: Noel Clark, Stephen Graham Jones, Robert Pasnau and Kenneth P. Wright Jr. Join a celebration Feb. 3.
John Leshy to deliver distinguished lecture Feb. 27
Former solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior John Leshy will deliver the Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture, "Public Land Policy After the Trump Administration: Is This a Turning Point?"
Research in Your Backyard
What’s Hollywood’s dirtiest secret? Its environmental toll
From classics such as “Gone with the Wind” to modern films such as “Avatar,” the movie industry packs a serious, and often hidden, environmental cost, says film scholar Hunter Vaughan.
In Focus
Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane, pioneers in the field of laser science, have won this year's prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.