Faculty/Staff Edition - Jan. 27, 2017

As you begin the spring semester, the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (FTEP) is supports all CU Boulder faculty members with a variety of events and services, including symposia, short classes and one-on-one consultation services.

Aerospace undergraduates Matthew Hurst and Christine Reilly are being recognized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' awards program "Tomorrow's Engineering Leaders: The 20 Twenties."

Dean Bobby Braun has announced Phil Larson's appointment to assistant dean for communications, strategy and planning in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, where he will lead strategic relations.

Join Research Computing (RC) on March 13 and 14 for the next Software Carpentry Workshop, which aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills.

Bawdy British humor is featured in the "Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women" exhibit at the CU Art Museum opening Feb. 2. A selection of prints shows the popular satire of the late 1700s and early 1800s, revealing parallels between then and today.

CU Boulder’s 2016-17 theatre season continues with Unspoken, a 2016 work by New Play Festival winner and PhD candidate Kevin Crowe. The intimate portrait of six friends living in New York City runs Feb. 15 to 19 in CU’s Loft Theatre.

While no one media type controls the broader news agenda, partisan media now has the strongest influence, followed by emerging non-partisan media outlets – like BuzzFeed and Gawker – over longtime traditional outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.

A team of University of Colorado Boulder researchers has secured a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Energy to monitor potentially dangerous emissions from natural gas storage facilities across the U.S.