Community Edition - May 22, 2022

Connect with CU Boulder Chancellor Philip DiStefano, Athletic Director Rick George and faculty. Learn about the local impact of climate change on Colorado communities, joining alumni, parents, donors and community members at these free gatherings.

In case you missed it, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will be back with an in-person season June 5–Aug. 7. Peruse the lineup, including “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “All’s Well That Ends Well” and “Coriolanus,” as well as two non-Shakespeare works: “The Book of Will” and “The Alchemist.”

This annual summertime tournament returns on July 25. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the Boulder Country Club while supporting CU students.

A new CU Boulder study of nearly 90,000 samples across six states found cannabis labels don’t adequately reflect the underlying chemical makeup of products. The study authors are now calling for a weed labeling system.

As climate change brings a hotter, thirstier atmosphere, much of the western U.S. has seen record-breaking wildfires, intense heat waves, low stream flows and dwindling water supplies. CIRES researcher Imtiaz Rangwala shares on The Conversation.

If any humans had been alive 2 to 4 billion years ago, they may have looked up and seen a sliver of frost on the moon's surface. Some of that ice may still be hiding in craters on the moon today.

Students at the Immigration Defense Clinic have represented more than 20 longtime university employees from El Salvador who have temporary protected status, which allows them to work. The clinic is helping them become permanent residents.

With Giving Games, CU Boulder's Tim Wadsworth has helped hundreds of students learn more about the effectiveness of charities, the causes that tend to yield the greatest benefit for the least money and where to find tools to gauge nonprofits’ effectiveness.

To offer more opportunities for student belonging, inclusion and engagement, Fraternity and Sorority Life has been working with the National Pan-Hellenic Council to bring historically Black fraternities and sororities to CU Boulder.