Community Edition - Sept. 20, 2020

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

People are starting almost all the wildfires that threaten U.S. homes, according to an innovative new analysis combining housing and wildfire data.

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.