Community Edition - April 2, 2019
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6 startup teams to advance to New Venture Challenge championships April 3
In an event that’s open to the public, CU Boulder teams will vie for up to $200,000 in funding at the 11th New Venture Challenge, campus’s premier entrepreneurial startup competition.
Growing up queer: Kids and the remaking of LGBTQ identity
On April 3, Professor Mary Robertson will discuss the changing ways young people are now becoming LGBTQ-identified in the U.S., focusing on the voices and stories of youths themselves.
Entertaining, teaching and moving the spirit: A glance into the Early Music Ensemble
In the 17th and 18th century, music was understood as having three main functions: to entertain, to teach and to move the spirit. Witness the fervor of the Early Music Ensemble at their concert April 5.
National injunctions the focus of Rothgerber Conference April 5
This year's conference will feature a panel of diverse scholars, with remarks by Dean S. James Anaya, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Provost Professor of Civil Rights Law Suzette Malveaux.
CU Engineers Without Borders annual 5K fundraiser
Come join in on the fun at the third annual Race for Water 5K fundraiser on Saturday, April 6. The first heat starts at 8:30 a.m. at Duane Field. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, 2020 presidential candidate, will close the 2019 Conference on World Affairs
The 2020 presidential candidate will close CU Boulder’s Conference on World Affairs with the Molly Ivins Memorial Plenary, a mainstay of the CWA, on Saturday, April 13.
Research in Your Backyard
How to address distrust to create lasting change in education
Educational reform efforts that fail to address long-festering issues of distrust may be "doomed to failure," Dean Katherine Schultz argues in a new book.
Colorado business leaders more optimistic headed into second quarter
Colorado business leaders’ confidence is warming heading into the second quarter of 2019, according to the latest Leeds Business Confidence Index from CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.
The unseen microbial world of amphibian skin
A far-reaching global study led by EBIO scientists has found that climate is a critical determinant of microbial diversity on amphibian skin.
In Focus

Over seven years, Kimberly Hess and brother Steven climbed the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents. Next up: A trek to Earth’s poles.