Faculty/Staff Edition - April 5, 2017

The annual Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Excellence Awards took place yesterday, April 4, at the University Memorial Center, recognizing faculty members for outstanding work and concerted effort in advancing the mission of the university and the academy at large.

Don't miss the opportunity to share your latest ed-tech tools and practices at the 2017 Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) conference. The call for proposals is open through Monday, April 10, 11:59 p.m.

Free and open to the public, the conference on Reporting in the Age of Alternative Facts will involve discussions with panelists from ProPublica, the New York Times, The Nation, The Denver Post, KGNU Community Radio, Rocky Mountain PBS and other organizations.

C and Fortran programmers: Gain a hands-on introduction to MPI programming at the two-day XSEDE workshop to be telecast at the University of Colorado Boulder April 18 and 19. Limited to 20 participants.

On April 10, the annual Conscious Capitalism Conference will feature Kimbal Musk, co-founder of The Kitchen, addressing sustainable production and distribution channels of safe and healthy food.

Do you have messy data or does your data need wrangling? Learn to use OpenRefine, an open-source application used for cleaning and transforming data, at the April 11 workshop.

A health savings account (HSA) offers a tax-advantaged way to put money aside and grow savings allocated for qualified medical expenses. Learn more at the April 12 lunch and learn.