Faculty-Staff Edition - Aug. 12, 2021
More than 1,500 faculty, staff and graduate students attended the Buffs Back Together event on Farrand Field, where they were treated to lunch, a variety of sweet treats, yard games, music, giveaways, canine companions and face-to-face conversations with colleagues.
Campus Community
COVID-19 campus updates: Aug. 12 edition
For the start of the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: News on the new indoor masking requirements on campus, updates on the mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic on campus and more.
In-person ScienceWriters2021 events in Colorado postponed to 2023
Because of COVID-19 health and safety concerns, in-person ScienceWriters2021 events at the CU Boulder and CU Anschutz campuses will be postponed to 2023. The conference is the nation's leading gathering for science communicators.
News Headlines
Colorado Lullaby Project bridges mental health, parenting
Under a project started in 2020, CU music students help parents write music, while the Reneé Crown Wellness Institute studies the effects of the lullabies on the parents’ mental health, wellness and social connections.
Computer Science's Qin (Christine) Lv featured in new research podcast
In this episode, meet Qin (Christine) Lv, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and CU Boulder campus director for ASPIRE, a new National Science Foundation center that is exploring transportation challenges facing our world today.
Engineers uncover the secrets of fish fins
Want to swim with the fishes? New research unravels what makes fish fins so strong yet flexible at the same time.