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Community Edition - May 2, 2021

4 Things to Know This Week

CU Boulder commencement to be held at noon on Thursday, May 6

COVID-19 campus updates: April 29 edition

Important vaccine message from president and campus chancellors

Get initial vaccine requirement details, timeline

Discover What's Here

U.S Congressman Joe Neguse

Celebrate youth voices, child-friendly cities at May 4 fundraiser with Joe Neguse

General Events & Exhibits
Growing Up Boulder will celebrate its legacy as one of the nation's and world's most successful child-friendly city initiatives. Local children and teens will host the event, which U.S Congressman Joe Neguse will kick off.
Professor Ahmed White

Talk on May 6 to examine question of class, politics of inclusion

Lectures & Presentations Events & Exhibits
The Race and the Law Series will welcome Professor Ahmed White to explore the way diversity and inclusion have served less as means of advancing genuine equality than as methods for lending the appearance of democracy to a fundamentally undemocratic social order.
Professor Deborah Cantrell

Exploring transformative silence and protest—A talk May 18

Lectures & Presentations Events & Exhibits
In this Colorado Law Talk, Professor Deborah Cantrell will explore the current landscape of heightened social protest and consider whether and how the law matters to social activists.

Research in Your Backyard

Mark Hernandez in Denver Public Schools classrooms

Confronting COVID-19 with AAU research, like better air filtration in schools

Education & Outreach News Headlines
CU Boulder is collaborating with the Association of American Universities and others on a series raising awareness about the role of public research universities in times of significant global challenges. In CU Boulder's clip, an environmental engineering team is working with schools to improve air filtration.
Gloved hands hold a vaccine vial

To safely return to ‘normal,’ 70% of Coloradans must get COVID vaccine

Health & Society News Headlines
The state is heading in the right direction, but still has a lot of work to do before it can remove all public health restrictions, such as mask mandates, researchers say.
Student volunteers in masks on the CU Boulder campus

Student-led spring study shows high mask compliance on campus

Health & Society News Headlines
A new study of mask compliance across 53 campuses, including CU Boulder, suggests that while there's some room for improvement, college students are listening to public health advice and wearing face coverings.
A face covering suspended in air with a purple background. (Unsplash/Heyde Matthias)

How scientists know the coronavirus spreads mostly through the air

Health & Society News Headlines
There is strong evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air, and therefore public health measures that fail to treat the virus as predominantly airborne leave people unprotected and allow the virus to spread.

In Focus

Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano

From the Chancellor: Supporting President Biden’s higher education funding proposal and policy

Leadership Corner Campus Community
The University of Colorado Boulder joins hundreds of other educational institutions across Colorado and the nation in supporting President Biden’s bold and wide-ranging education funding proposals.
Old Main

CU launches search for assistant vice chancellor for local government, community engagement

Deadlines & Announcements Campus Community
Efforts are underway to recruit a leader who can effectively serve as a liaison between CU Boulder and the city of Boulder, Boulder County, surrounding municipalities, local business and community groups.
Stock image of a train station with a zoomed in focus

CU Boulder launches accelerator for university-developed COVID-19 innovations

Deadlines & Announcements Campus Community
Venture Partners at CU Boulder has launched an accelerator to support the translation of CU-developed COVID-19 innovations into new businesses. Faculty, students and staff with COVID-19-related innovations are invited to apply—the deadline is May 21.

What We're Reading

Boulder Faculty Assembly votes to censure CU President Mark Kennedy

Above national average for hiring female officers, CUPD looks to go further

Alumna startup offers help and food for essential workers, school kids during pandemic

Engineers adjust plans to support Colorado town

Examining the call for community schools

CU Boulder remains a top university nationally, globally in 2021 rankings

Patricia Limerick elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Why news matters: Film spotlights instructor's fight to save local journalism

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