Faculty/Staff Edition - Feb. 8, 2017

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected Distinguished Professor Daniel J. Scheeres, a CU Boulder aerospace engineer who has an asteroid named after him, and Adjunct Professor Philippe Spalart, a Boeing Technical Fellow, to its 2017 class. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

In case you missed it, Google Apps recently changed names to G Suite, but users still have access to the same great applications like Groups, Drive, Sheets, Sites and more. All university affiliates are provisioned with G Suite accounts.

Scholarship Services invites faculty and staff to participate in the selection of 2017-18 scholarship recipients. This is a great opportunity to learn more about student interests, activities and contributions.

The city of Boulder has opened a web version of the 2017 Community Perception Survey to ask residents and other community members about their perception and experience of Boulder as a safe and welcoming community for all.

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it. CU Boulder Environmental Health and Safety is tasked by state and federal agencies with ensuring everyone on campus does their part to keep our water systems free of pollutants.

Learn, build and share with other students at T9Hacks, a hackathon event for women. Participants collaborate and race to create the next great software project in this free, overnight event. No prior programming experience required!

On Feb. 14, Human Resources will offer a workshop focused on the Real Colors Personality Test, designed to help people recognize, accept, learn to value and understand human behaviors to improve empathy and communication in the workplace. 

On Feb. 14, BuffsUnited will host Engaged Citizenship: A Teach-In, where faculty from across the campus will speak on a variety of issues including immigration law, free speech, government speech, the responsibility of the media, historical and contemporary racism, and environmental protections.