Community Edition - June 26, 2022
Discover What's Here
STEM camps for middle, high schoolers coming July 18–22
Including a new machine learning class offered in Spanish, the Innovation Center of the St. Vrain Valley Schools is collaborating with CU Boulder, Northrop Grumman and IBM to offer high-quality STEM camps in Longmont. Students can choose from several tracks.
Host a reunion this Homecoming
Were you part of a special group of people at CU Boulder? Host a reunion with them during Homecoming Oct. 27–29. Reunions registered with the Alumni Association by July 1 receive marketing and event support and CU swag.
Research in Your Backyard
From 'Don’t Say Gay' to bathrooms and sports: How debates over LGBTQ+ rights impact kids
Elizabeth Meyer has spent her career working with teachers and students to study how school policies can help or harm LGBTQ+ youth. In this Q&A, she weighs in on the wave of legislation around the country targeting the rights of transgender and nonbinary kids.
In Stanley Cup final, an avalanche of demand sends ticket prices soaring
With the National Hockey League's playoffs in the final round, an analytics expert with the Leeds School of Business says teams’ box-office strategies are “leaving a lot of money on the table” for resellers.
Cities of the future may be built with algae-grown limestone
The Living Materials Laboratory is scaling up the manufacture of carbon-neutral cement as well as cement products, which can slowly pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it.
Newly documented population of polar bears sheds light on species’ future
A new population of polar bears documented on the southeast coast of Greenland use glacier ice to survive, despite limited access to sea ice. This small, genetically distinct group of polar bears could be important to the future of the species in a warming world.
In Focus
The Greenland Place Name Committee has named a glacier “Sermeq Konrad Steffen” after the late Konrad Steffen, former director of CIRES, who made exceptional contributions to Greenlandic society and science.