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Community Edition - Sept. 13, 2020

In Focus

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

COVID-19 campus updates: Sept. 10 edition

Safety Campus Community
Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including stats and items of note. In this issue: sources of transmission, dashboard updates, contact tracing information and more.
researchers working in a lab

Everything you need to know about contact tracing

Safety Campus Community
Contact tracing is used to identify and inform those who have potentially been exposed to an infectious disease. It has been used for decades by state and local health departments to slow or stop the spread of infectious disease.
Students learning in a group

Outreach awards fund 28 community outreach projects

Education & Outreach News Headlines
More than 20,000 people will benefit from community-based initiatives, K-12 programs, legal clinics and other projects in the coming year, supported through the 2020–21 CU Boulder Outreach Awards.
Ijeoma Oluo

Discuss the campus One Read book exploring anti-racism

General Inclusive Excellence Events & Exhibits
The Diversity and Inclusion Summit on Nov. 10 will include a discussion of "So you want to talk about race" by Ijeoma Oluo. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the text and its powerful themes. Prior familiarity with the book, while encouraged, is not required.

Discover What's Here

exhibit at the CU Museum of Natural History

CU Museum of Natural History now accessible from home

Exhibits Events & Exhibits
The CU Museum has gone virtual, offering a wide range of exhibits and educational materials for students, families and community members—online accessible every day and always free.
The cover of "For Women and Girls on Fire" by Tanaya Winder, director of CU Boulder Upward Bound

Art and social justice focus of community series

Lectures & Presentations Inclusive Excellence Events & Exhibits
Social justice and the arts take center stage this fall as part of a free virtual public series featuring CU Boulder and community artists and educators.

Research in Your Backyard

A yard sign

Who puts up election yard signs and why?

Faculty in Focus Law & Politics Campus Community News Headlines
In a new book, CU Boulder's Anand Sokhey details his research on whether yard signs work, what they say about us and how they shape our neighborhoods.
ultraviolet light on a bus

Ultraviolet light can make indoor spaces safer during the pandemic—if it’s used the right way

The Conversation News Headlines
Ultraviolet light has a long history as a disinfectant, but it's not risk-free. How do we harness UV light to fight the spread of the virus and protect human health as people work, study and shop indoors? Professor Karl Linden shares on The Conversation.
Image of the asteroid Bennu with small bits of material jumping off into space.

How small particles could reshape Bennu and other asteroids

Space News Headlines
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft observed tiny bits of material jumping off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. A new study tracks where those particles went.
Artist's depiction of the twin Janus spacecraft flying in formation through space.

Where no spacecraft has gone before: A close encounter with binary asteroids

Space News Headlines
In a moment for twos, the Janus mission will launch two identical spacecraft to rendezvous with two asteroid pairs millions of miles from Earth.
Ash covers rooftops in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.

Volcanic ash may have a bigger impact on the climate than we thought

Climate & Environment News Headlines
Volcanic ash shuts down air traffic and can sicken people. But a new study suggests it may also be more important for Earth's climate than once thought.

What We're Reading

CU regents hear campus and enrollment updates

CUPD provides training in groundbreaking techniques

What to do if you’re feeling sick

Student creates resource to make data visualization easy, accessible for museums

Media student captures life stories with video startup Mamabird Interviews

What to do if you’re worried about a friend

Tips for preventing No. 1 crime on campus: Bike theft

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