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Community Edition - Oct. 4, 2020

In Focus

A Protect Our Herd–face covering required sign at the entrance of Farrand Field

COVID-19 campus updates: Oct. 1 edition

Safety Campus Community
Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including stats and items of note. In this issue: CU Boulder testing is expanding for off-campus students, as well as all faculty and staff. Learn about this and more.
Students, staff and faculty, all wearing facial coverings and practicing proper social distancing protocols, participate in classes and study on the first day of the 2020 Fall semester on the CU Boulder Campus. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

Some universities show early signs of slowing COVID-19 outbreaks through temporary shutdowns

Administration Buffs Together Campus Community
In Boulder, university leaders acknowledge the hardship that the recent surge in cases has caused the community. But some also see glimmers of hope in the stories of other schools that seem to have slowed outbreaks by pausing in-person learning.
An aerial view of the CU Boulder campus

CU Boulder issues statement against proposed change to duration of status policy

Administration Inclusive Excellence Campus Community
In support of international students, CU Boulder strongly opposes proposed changes to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s longstanding duration of status policy.

Discover What's Here

A donkey and elephant, representing the U.S. major political parties

Compromise in an era of party polarization: A lecture on Oct. 10

Lectures & Presentations Events & Exhibits
Register now for a virtual CU on the Weekend lecture as Political Science Professor Jennifer Wolak discusses how Americans want politicians to work together to find compromises.
Zak Yacoob

Join the John Paul Stevens lecture featuring Justice Zak Yacoob on Oct. 22

Lectures & Presentations Events & Exhibits
Zak Yacoob, a former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former anti-apartheid activist, will deliver the University of Colorado Law School’s 9th annual John Paul Stevens Lecture on Oct. 22.
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Join Buffs around the world for a virtual 5K

Getting Involved Buffs Together Campus Community
Lace up your running shoes and get outside for the Wherever You Roam Virtual 5K. Alumni, students, parents and Buff fans around the world are invited to participate by running or walking a 5K any time through October.

Research in Your Backyard

Daniela Vergara

Cannabis data lacking, but machine learning could help fill the gap

Health & Society Science & Technology News Headlines
An array of little-known chemicals present in marijuana can interact to influence the taste, smell and effect of each unique strain. But, according to new research, the cannabis industry seldom tests for those compounds and knows little about them.
Family in a park

Children heavily influenced by time in nature, social and emotional support

Health & Society Climate & Environment News Headlines
CU Boulder Today spoke with Louise Chawla about how children are happier and more likely to protect the natural world when they have a greater connection to it, and the important role of social and emotional support from parents, peers and community in creating hope around issues like climate change.
Artist's depiction of the DAPPER satellite in orbit around the moon.

A roadmap for science on the moon

Space News Headlines
Scientists at CU Boulder have laid out a roadmap for a decade of scientific research at the moon. Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or proposed space missions that seek to use the moon as a unique laboratory for peering back to the dawn of the cosmos.
Coral reef fish

The pace of environmental change can doom or save coral reefs

Climate & Environment News Headlines
Increasing fishing too quickly can cause coral reef ecosystems to collapse, new CU Boulder-led research finds.
Grand Staircase National Monument,

Someday, even wet forests could burn due to climate change

Climate & Environment News Headlines
While today's fires are exacerbated by dry conditions, CU Boulder researchers found that forest fires 94 million years ago occurred even in wet regions due to changes in global climate.

What We're Reading

City and partner organizations invite community members to join weekly COVID-19 briefings

Unmask the Racism: CU students challenge anti-Asian racism through social media campaign

Nobel laureate Carl Wieman awarded Yidan Prize for Education Research

Hip-hop dance maestro Rennie Harris wins major award

New center to collaborate with international coalition to advance synthesis in archaeology

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