Community Edition - Sept. 6, 2020

Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including stats and items of note. In this issue: dashboard revisions, expected increase in cases, student conduct and more.

CU Boulder leaders updated Boulder City Council members about campus initiatives underway to ensure the health, safety and well-being of students, faculty, frontline employees and other staff—and the broader Boulder community.

CU Boulder Today chatted with Jose-Luis Jimenez, chemistry professor and CIRES fellow, about why it’s so important to wear a face covering—even when you’re outdoors.

In a new course, designed in part by students, participants delve into the interrelationship between COVID-19 and systemic racism. Anthony Fauci will be a special guest speaker.

On Sept. 17, join Professor Ming Hsu Chen, who will elaborate on the concept of pursuing citizenship, drawing from her new book, Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era.

The stars of tomorrow are on stage today at CU Boulder. The students of the College of Music are presenting works old and new for their degree-qualifying recitals. Tune in and enjoy.

A new initiative seeks to understand the role scientific advice played, or did not play, in driving COVID-19-related policies in at least seven countries. Researchers hope the project helps improve communication between scientists and policymakers.

Future moon astronauts may one day be able to step into an electric-beam shower to clean sticky dust off of their spacesuits and equipment.

Three CU Boulder faculty are principal investigators on a new five-year, $6.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “critical zone”—from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top—in the American West.

NASA and the National Science Foundation have awarded two CU Boulder space weather scientists more than $5M to lay the groundwork for faster and more robust space weather forecasts.