Faculty-Staff Edition - May 3, 2022
Campus Community
CU Boulder to reflect, celebrate as Juneteenth becomes official state holiday
Gov. Jared Polis signed a legislative bill into law, declaring Juneteenth a state holiday. The holiday recognizes the emancipation of enslaved African Americans and celebrates the self-determination of Black Americans. This year, the university will offer a floating personal observance day for all leave-eligible faculty and staff.
Summer guide to the libraries
Check out all the ways University Libraries can make this a great summer, from research help and access to breaking news to reading recommendations and the New York Times.
Scholarship charity ride pedals toward 20th anniversary
Now with nine different routes—from short to long, flattish cruise to ‘epic’ climb, and on either road or gravel—Buffalo Bicycle Classic remains focused on the real prize: student scholarships.
Student-designed black box rises 101,000 feet, captures data and imaginations
The assignment: write and test the code for a microcontroller, design and built an insulated casing to hold a camera and protect electronics and batteries from temperatures of approximately -35° Fahrenheit. Students, many of whom began the ATLAS course without much of a technical background, succeeded.
Events & Exhibits
May 18 community event to kick off ‘alpine’ high-performance computing era
The celebratory event signals the official launch of CU Boulder’s third-generation high-performance computing infrastructure, which is provisioned and available to campus researchers immediately.
News Headlines
Researchers to explore link between women’s perspectives, resilient housing design
Engineers have studied disaster resilience in housing for decades—exploring and creating better solutions to keep people safe and in place after events like earthquakes. New research aims to take that work further by better incorporating the perspectives and attitudes of those living in impacted homes—particularly women.