Community Edition - Sept. 20, 2020
The Los Seis de Boulder sculpture installed on the CU Boulder campus last year will remain at CU as part of the permanent collection in the University Libraries’ Special Collections, Archives and Preservation department.
In Focus
COVID-19 campus updates: Sept. 17 edition
Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including stats and items of note. In this issue: a new testing site, isolation space on campus, city action and more.
Discover What's Here
Watch Boys State, a virtual screening by A24 at CU Boulder
On Sept. 24, see the documentary that takes an entertaining and revealing look into a week-long annual program in which a thousand high school seniors gather for an elaborate mock exercise to build their own state government.
University Libraries celebrating centennial of 19th Amendment
The ratification of the 19th Amendment secured and protected women’s right to vote. The University Libraries held a panel discussion and is providing an online exhibit of archives.
Tune in to the MOSAiC webinar series
Learn more about virtual educational resources created around the epic MOSAiC Arctic climate research expedition and how you can integrate these resources into your teaching.
Research in Your Backyard
How music of past pandemics can predict human behavior now
Austin Okigbo, an associate professor of ethnomusicology, studies South African music created during epidemics. According to Okigbo, certain themes reverberate through periods of widespread illness.
Singing unmasked, indoors spreads COVID-19 through aerosols, new study confirms
Singing indoors, unmasked, can swiftly spread COVID-19 via microscopic airborne particles known as aerosols, confirms a new peer-reviewed study of a March choir rehearsal that became one of the nation’s first superspreading events.
Humans behind almost all fires threatening homes
People are starting almost all the wildfires that threaten U.S. homes, according to an innovative new analysis combining housing and wildfire data.
Scientists identify gene family key to unlocking vertebrate evolution
New CU Boulder-led research finds the traits that make vertebrates distinct from invertebrates were made possible by the emergence of a new set of genes 500 million years ago.