Faculty-Staff Edition - Aug. 9, 2022

Reminder: Get fall updates at town hall today

In a virtual town hall from 3 to 4 p.m. today, campus officials, including Provost Russell Moore and Chief Operating Officer Patrick O’Rourke, will provide updates for the fall semester at CU Boulder. They will address academics, vaccine requirements, work modalities and more. Also, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.

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Buff Bulletin Board

Leeds School dean search kicks off; Keith Molenaar named committee chair

Tuition Assistance Benefit application period open for fall: Find out what's new

Call for nominations: Honorary degrees, university medals, distinguished service awards

Receive funding, training for your invention: Apply by Aug. 29 for the Lab Venture Challenge

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Campus Community

Are you ready for Fall Welcome?

Getting Involved Campus Community

About 8,000 new students and their families will arrive on campus next week, marking the start of Fall Welcome. Here’s what faculty and staff need to know to get ready.

Curious about how to make the best Canvas course for your students?

Workshops & Seminars Events & Exhibits

OIT is offering a number of Canvas trainings to help instructors with their fall courses, including sessions on building assignments and quizzes, designing more engaging Canvas pages, adding interactive video content and more advanced features.

CU Employee Services: Staff with student debt should try Savi

Deadlines & Announcements Campus Community

As a CU employee, you may qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness—a program that rewards college graduates who work in the public sector. CU is a qualifying employer and has a partnership with Savi. Explore whether you qualify for up to total loan forgiveness.

Research in Your Backyard

How Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan impacts Chinese-American relations

Law & Politics News Headlines

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Taiwan has fueled a mounting crisis between China and the United States. William Wei, professor of modern Chinese history, spoke about the significance of Pelosi’s visit and its implications on Chinese-American relations.

Incentives not a guarantee of more US-made semiconductors

Business & Entrepreneurship News Headlines

A $52 billion federal package to incentivize U.S. production of semiconductor chips has energized the high-tech sector, but experts aren’t convinced it will be the end to dramatic shortages that have created pain points throughout the supply chain.

Scientists call for ‘Western Rewilding Network’ to support wolf, beaver populations, improve biodiversity on public lands

Climate & Environment News Headlines

In a paper published this week, CU Boulder Professor Joanna Lambert and 19 other scientists call for a portion of federal land in 11 states to be used to ‘rewild’ the American West.

Events & Exhibits

Abominations: Why hasn’t Lionel Shriver been canceled already?

Lectures & Presentations Events & Exhibits

Join Aug. 31 as controversial novelist and commentator Lionel Shriver, in conversation with Benjamin Teitelbaum, discusses her first nonfiction book “Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction.”