Community Edition - April 11, 2021
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On April 11 tune in for TEDxCU 2021: Bounce
In life, we bounce back from hard times and into good ones. We bounce to and from new experiences and remember the old. We use the bounces of our life to tell our stories. Join this year's mainstage event for more.
Enjoy a performance April 11 by the Takács Quartet: Haydn, Dutilleux, Schubert
The Grammy-winning Takács Quartet has moved audiences and sold out halls at CU Boulder for more than three decades and counting. Join us for a rare live-streamed concert April 11. The performance will then be available through May 10.
Bipartisanship (and friendship) happens: Join for a discussion April 15
Join virtually for a public conversation between University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy and University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan. The two served in the U.S. House of Representatives together.
Coded Bias: A virtual film screening and discussion April 16
Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini´s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces and women accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Face to face with the radical right: A lecture April 24
Register for this virtual CU on the Weekend talk in which Assistant Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum will discuss his ethnographic research working directly with radical right idealogues.
Research in Your Backyard
Junk food and big miles may not add up how ‘thru-hikers’ hope
A study by CU Boulder researchers suggests that thru-hiking, as on the Pacific Crest Trail, might decrease vascular health.
Science, spacesuits, dehydrated food: Simulating Mars in the Utah desert
Graduate student Shayna Hume will get a taste of what life on Mars could be like during a two-week mission at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.
Frozen in ice, frozen in time
A CU team froze their ship in Arctic ice in the name of science and storytelling. The crew conducted groundbreaking research, studying everything from the atmosphere above their heads to the sea ice beneath their feet during the largest-ever expedition of its kind.
In Focus
CU increases enforcement in the University Hill neighborhood
The campus began an increased effort to address community concerns in the University Hill neighborhood. These efforts will continue for the remainder of the semester to help limit noise, large and unsafe gatherings, trash and other code enforcement issues.