Faculty-Staff Edition - Feb. 8, 2022
Events & Exhibits
Visiting artist lecture series brings talk with Glenn Ligon tonight
The Department of Art and Art History's visiting artist lecture series will livestream contemporary artist Glenn Ligon in conversation with Professor Megan O'Grady at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8.
T9Hacks Feb. 18–19: Confidence in coding
T9Hacks kicks off this year with an in-person event. The seventh-annual hackathon promotes interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making among college women, nonbinary individuals and other groups that are underrepresented in technical fields.
Campus Community
Viva ‘West Side Story,’ CU Boulder cinephile says
Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, cinema studies chair—and man who’s “morally opposed” to remakes—gives a thumbs-up to Steven Spielberg’s Oscar Award-nominated version of “West Side Story.”
News Headlines
Spotify, Joe Rogan and managing misinformation on streaming services
Recent events have prompted a lively discussion about if and how content on streaming platforms should be moderated. CU Boulder Today spoke with an expert in Colorado Law about Spotify, Joe Rogan and this new frontier in content moderation.
What America’s voting rights activists can learn from past movements for civil rights
Digging deeply into the nation’s past can help illuminate the racial setbacks facing the U.S. today. Anthony Siracusa, senior director of inclusive culture and initiatives, shares on The Conversation.
Novice to expert: Immersive undergraduate research transforms students
After nine weeks immersed in a research experience at CU Boulder, undergraduate students could analyze scientific papers and graphs more like experts, according to a new CIRES-led study.