Community Edition - July 18, 2021
Discover What's Here
Fiske Planetarium shows are back
Fiske Planetarium is open to the public with shows on Fridays and Saturdays, offering full-dome films, talks, laser and liquid sky shows, concerts and more. See what’s coming up.
Research in Your Backyard
Why elite cyclists dance with their bikes
A new CU Boulder study shows that rising up out of the saddle and gently swaying the bike side-to-side, known in French as "en danseuse," can significantly boost performance.
Buff Innovator Insights second season kicks off July 15
Season two of the Research & Innovation Office's Buff Innovator Insights podcast launches with an episode featuring Reiland Rabaka, the inaugural director of the Center for African and African American Studies.
John Glenn fans dreamed of the stars––but sexism thwarted their ambitions
Recent scholarship on the early Space Age has reawakened questions about the ways gender, race, ethnicity and class shaped the U.S. human space flight program. Associate Professor Roshanna Sylvester shares on The Conversation.
It takes a hive: Community volunteers in honey bee research
Two local high school students have been volunteering regularly for over two years in the Peleg Lab, to the benefit of the student-volunteers and to the lab in advancing research.
In Focus
Since 1948, the university has produced over 90 Olympic athletes who have competed in events across the globe. In honor of the upcoming Tokyo Games, here’s a look at CU’s storied history of Olympians.