Lectures & Presentations
- When the CU Global Ambassadors convene in Boulder on May 6, they will host a student event focused on building a global career, developing global leadership skills and promoting social good worldwide.
- An Academic Review and Planning Advisory Committee task force will present recommendations on the university's Residential Academic Programs (RAPs) with opportunity for community feedback May 2 and 5. Click through to read more and find answers to frequently asked questions.
- On May 3, LASP space physics research scientist Allison Jaynes will present early results from the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, launched in 2015 to study the little-understood phenomenon magnetic reconnection.
- Tonight, a presentation and panel response titled "Agency in the Midst of Oppression: Jewish Doctors, Ghettos and Public Health" is being held in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg doctors’ trial and national Week of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust.
- On April 26, Caltech professor Jay Famiglietti will discuss the convergence of climate models and decades of satellite data that suggest an unfortunate reality: Earth's water cycle is changing.
- On April 28, the Finnish ambassador to the United States Kirsti Kauppi will give a public talk at the CIRES Auditorium to discuss education, research and innovation.
- Kip Thorne, pioneer in gravitational waves and creative force behind ‘Interstellar,’ will give the 51st Gamow lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27, at Macky Auditorium.
- Professor Thomas T. Veblen will deliver a Distinguished Research Lecture titled "Wildfire regime shifts in Patagonian-Andean forest ecosystems: Feedbacks and consequences in the face of climate and land-use changes" April 25.
- The human adult brain was once believed by neuroscientists to be "fixed, ended, immutable," but recent advances have revealed this three-pound organ to be remarkably dynamic. Learn more at the May 2 workshop.
- Clara Bargellini has always had an interest in methodological and historiographic problems. On April 19, the professor will speak on the historiography, collection and reception of New Spain art.