Community Edition - May 5, 2020

2 Things to Know This Week

Local face coverings order and the CU Boulder campus

City providing opportunity to submit questions, rank issues regarding CU Boulder South

Discover What's Here

CU summer camp participants using a handheld device

CU Boulder summer camps move online

General Education & Outreach Events & Exhibits News Headlines

Some campus units will be offering virtual science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), pre-collegiate and speech disorder camps for K-12 students this summer.

Research in Your Backyard

A closed sign in front of Little Man Ice Cream in Denver, CO.

Colorado business filings decline, reflecting COVID-19 slowdown

Business & Entrepreneurship News Headlines

Colorado business filings were undercut by COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2020, according to a University of Colorado Boulder report Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold released on April 29.

Part of a CubeSat that CU Boulder students are building remotely

Spacebound while homebound: CU Boulder students designing a satellite from home

Space News Headlines

Working entirely via Zoom, remote desktop connections and webcams, a CU Boulder team is constructing and programming a satellite none of its members can currently touch. Welcome to designing a CubeSat during the coronavirus pandemic.

Scientists develop tool to improve disease model accuracy

Science & Technology Health & Society News Headlines

What can researchers do when their mathematical models of the spread of infectious diseases don’t match real-world data?

Ocean acidification prediction now possible years in advance

Climate & Environment News Headlines

Researchers have developed a method that could enable scientists to accurately forecast ocean acidity up to five years in advance, which could have implications for improving economic and food security.

In Focus

King Soopers partnered with the Colorado Emergency Operations Center to offer free COVID-19 drive-thru testing at the CU Boulder campus. (Photo by Patrick Campbell/University of Colorado)

Scene at CU: Mobile food drive and COVID-19 testing

Scene at CU Buffs Together Campus Community

In recent days, the campus served some of the community's most pressing needs as the site of a mobile food pantry, as well as drive-thru COVID-19 testing. See the week in photos.

What We're Reading

From the Chancellor: Fall planning, Augmester, fiscal plans

CU regents hear update on state budget process, budget scenarios for CU system and campuses

NCAA backs working group recommendations on name, image, likeness

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