Faculty-Staff Edition - March 17, 2022
Campus Community
Provost announces 5 finalists for engineering dean position
CU Boulder Provost Russell Moore has announced five finalists for the position of dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Find out more about the candidates and next steps in the process.
News Headlines
Diversity and inclusion at the Oscars with Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz
CU Boulder Professor Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz explains the history of the Oscars, the pressure on the academy to be more inclusive and the changes that still need to be made in Hollywood.
US fires 4 times larger, 3 times more frequent since 2000
Fires have gotten larger, more frequent and more widespread across the United States since 2000, according to a new CU Boulder-led paper published in Science Advances.
What teens see in closed online spaces such as the Discord app
Initially a service to let gamers voice and text chat while playing, most of Discord’s current users build and maintain online communities—though not always very big ones. CU expert Brianna Dym shares on The Conversation.
Events & Exhibits
Causes and consequences of groupthink in American universities—a lecture April 11
This talk focuses on ideological conformity in academia: where it comes from, which issues are especially sensitive and why it can be dangerous to enforce taboos around sensitive issues rather than encouraging different sides to openly debate them.
A ceremonial planting will be held at the site of a new memorial tree in honor of the 10 community members who lost their lives in the 2021 shooting at King Soopers. The tree is a catalpa, a large shade tree that offers heart-shaped leaves, beautiful spring flowers and unique, persistent fruit.