Community Edition - Jan. 29, 2021

Through the spring semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: monitoring testing and Buff Pass participants will be eligible for incentives; a new monitoring testing site has opened at the Rec Center; and more.

A new COVID-19-related webinar series featuring frank and timely insights from CU Boulder’s world-renowned faculty and alumni starts Feb. 1.

LASP scientist Dave Brain will explain why it’s obviously true that planets require magnetic fields in order to be habitable. And then he will explain why it’s obviously false. Join on Feb. 3.

An 80,000-word doctoral thesis would take nine hours to present. The time limit for competitors of the 3MT? Three minutes. Join the Graduate School for the final competition via Zoom.

David Brooks will be the fifth speaker in CU Boulder’s Leo Hill Leadership Speaker Series. In his virtual talk, which is free and open to the public, the bestselling author and social commentator will share how all citizens can be leaders in repairing the country’s social fabric.

A new CU Boulder study shows that a key protein involved in learning and memory formation functions differently in males than in females.

The U.S. backing of the Paris Agreement has an influence on food security, health and safety, and the future warming of the planet. National Snow and Ice Data Center researcher Walt Meier and fellow scholars share on The Conversation.