Faculty/Staff Edition - Dec. 29, 2016
CU invention serves as muscular 'gas gauge' for Buffs in training
A new ultrasound technology developed by CU researchers and used by CU Boulder football, track and field, and basketball players, enables athletes to painlessly measure how nourished or depleted their muscles are, real-time, in 15 seconds.
Ancient Chaco Canyon population likely relied on imported food
The ancient Puebloan people, numbered in the thousands, could not have grown enough food where they lived in New Mexico, likely forcing them to import their sustenance, a CU Boulder scientist has discovered.
Middle school music program tuning up for the season
CU Boulder College of Music students are busy fine tuning lesson plans for this year’s CU Middle School Ensemble program, which begins Feb. 1. This program offers an extra-curricular performance opportunity for middle school band, orchestra and choral students.
Nine oak trees on campus to be treated for Allokermes scale
Weather permitting, Facilities Management Outdoor Services staff will conduct a broadcast spray application of a dormant oil insecticide to nine oak trees on main campus over the winter break. These trees are infested with Allokermes scale.
Events & Exhibits
Holocaust Remembrance Day lecture and exhibit
The Program in Jewish Studies and William A. Wise Law Library will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a lecture by Professor Nils Roemer and the highly acclaimed international exhibit "Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich."
In Focus
Italian alumna, lifelong learner experiences la dolce vita
While Joyce Earickson's career focus has varied, her goals have remained constant: teaching, helping others and leading a meaningful life. "I think I’ve had to come to terms with wondering if everybody might have a wandering life like I’ve had . . . where they start out in something and then it morphs into something else and leads here and there."