Community Edition - June 11, 2019
Business and engineering leaders broke ground Wednesday on a $45 million addition that will physically connect two academic and research buildings in a way they’ve never been connected before.
Discover What’s Here
Bringing back dark skies: The new Boulder lighting ordinance
Have you seen the Milky Way lately? Join Fiske Planetarium June 12 to learn why dark skies matter and how the newly implemented Boulder Outdoor Lighting Ordinance will benefit the community.
CU New Opera Workshop public performances June 14, 16
Composer and librettist Tom Cipullo, whose “Glory Denied” is one of the most frequently produced 21st-century American operas, comes to CU NOW to workshop the comedy “Hobson’s Choice.”
An evening with ‘Pain Brain’: New perspectives on chronic pain
Tonight, June 11, learn about groundbreaking research on a new treatment for chronic pain, requiring no drugs or surgery, and lend support to the documentary film-in-progress, “Pain Brain.”
Research in Your Backyard
Large boulders help shape huge canyons, researchers find
CU Boulder geology graduate student research argues that boulders play a major role in the geologic evolution of river canyons across vast spans of time.
Rare ‘superflares’ could one day threaten Earth
New research shows that the sun could experience a massive burst of energy called a superflare sometime in the next several thousand years.
In Focus
The CU Medical Services Concussion Team brings an interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of concussions for students, who tend to be at higher risk for concussions than older adults.