Community Edition - Oct. 4, 2020

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Increasing fishing too quickly can cause coral reef ecosystems to collapse, new CU Boulder-led research finds.

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.