Faculty-Staff Edition - Feb. 4 2021
Through the spring semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: A new monitoring and testing webpage is available; the Buff Pass includes new features; and more.
Campus Community
Faculty assembly discusses role in hiring professors, including visiting scholars
The Boulder Faculty Assembly discussed a statement by its executive committee that reiterates the authority of faculty to determine course content, teaching methodologies and approval of faculty members hired to teach on campus––including visiting scholars.
Research News
Horse remains reveal new insights into how Native peoples raised horses
When a Utah couple dug up the remains of a horse near the city of Provo, researchers suspected that they may have discovered an animal that lived during the last Ice Age. New results suggest a different story.
Marine heatwaves becoming more intense, more frequent
When thick, the surface layer of an ocean acts as a buffer to extreme marine heating—but a new study from CU Boulder shows this “mixed layer” is becoming shallower each year.