Sessions will tackle how we build, power, and grow things; how we build community and work with partners ethically; how to think creatively; how to keep people safe; and how to overcome sociopolitical obstacles. Come help us build an interconnected ecosystem for actionable sustainability research.

Session Proposals Open August 3rd
(Close August 14th)

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Facility access with Buff OneCardBouldering | 12–4 p.m.Rec SkateFitness classes - QR Code to class schedule: https://recreation-portal.colorado.edu/Facility/GetSchedule?facilityId=e91ffd41-497c-4657-a329-12a31a9debf3S'mores under the stars | 6-8:30 p.m.

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The 2026 ChBE Research Symposium will feature keynote speakers Danielle Benoit and Sujit Datta; ChBE faculty speakers Ankur Gupta and Kayla Sprenger; and presentations from graduate students and postdocs. The day will also include a poster session, networking mixer and an evening reception at the Glenn Miller Ballroom.

📅 Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026
📍 Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotech Building (JSCBB)
📍 Evening reception at the Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC

Registration is open through Sept. 18.
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We hope to see you there!

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The PhD info session will be held over Zoom on October 8 at 8:30 AM MT. Please register in advance.

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The summit will create opportunities for students to see what researchers are working on and explore undergraduate research opportunities. CU researchers can identify potential interdisciplinary collaborations, while external partners can discover opportunities to work with CU on a variety of sustainability challenges. Investors can gain insight into what CU researchers are developing and what is in the pipeline, from discovery to implementation.

The full agenda is now available and features keynote addresses by Cassandra Brooks and Chris Winters, remarks from Chancellor Justin Schwartz, and more.

Registration for this free two‑day event is now open, welcoming community members and external partners to explore CU Boulder’s sustainability research landscape, share their work, connect with colleagues, and contribute to meaningful, forward‑looking collaborations.

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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Writing Sprints are one-day events for faculty to write together in person on campus. OFA organizes these events twice a semester: once just before the term begins, and once midway through the term. Faculty must RSVP for these events so we can ensure there is enough space to support all writers. Participants may come for the whole day, or just part of the day.

This event will take place on midsemester reading day, October 8th, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. –5 p.m. at Norlin N410. Please RSVP by September 24th, 2026. We will provide coffee and lunch to fuel your writing! Please feel free to bring additional snacks or beverages, a reusable water bottle, or anything else you might need.

Questions about the event? Please contact Julian Resasco: jresasco@colorado.edu, Faculty Fellow in the Office of Faculty Affairs.

If you require disability accommodations, please contact the ADA Coordinator at ADACoordinator@Colorado.EDU or 303-492-9725. Two weeks advance notice of need for accommodations is requested.

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Drop in to the Academic Coaching Study Hall to work quietly and independently on homework, exam prep, projects, or whatever you’ve been putting off. You don’t need an appointment, and you’re welcome to arrive late or leave early.

Work alongside other studentsGet a little extra structure and accountabilityAsk an Academic Coach questions or get support when you need itSnacks, fidgets, silent timers & intention sheets provided!

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What you’ll get out of the workshop

Understanding of how industry R&D works, including milestones, deliverables, and funding trendsIdentifying industry sectors that might be a fit for your researchUnderstanding specific company needs and challenges that could be a fit for your researchA playbook to approach potential industry partners

Time commitment

Approximately 5-6 hours (session time + homework)

If you have these questions, this workshop is for you:

How might industry supplement currently diminishing research funding streams?How can my research solve company problems?How do I keep my lab running and students funded potentially through industry partnerships?

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At CU Boulder, the Ombuds Office offers a confidential, impartial, independent, and informal space to discuss concerns, explore options, and navigate challenging situations. Whether someone is preparing for a difficult conversation, working through a conflict, or unsure where to turn, an ombuds can help them consider possible paths forward.

Ombuds also support the broader campus community by identifying recurring concerns and sharing insights that can improve university practices while protecting confidentiality.

Ombuds Day is an opportunity to learn about this resource and the role it plays in supporting constructive dialogue, fair processes, and a respectful campus community.

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Can evolutionary models help us build better social algorithms?

Evolutionary models have a long history as mathematically and computationally sophisticated tools for understanding how populations change over time. Their insights have not been limited to biological evolution and genetics. Indeed, the concept of a "meme" – a transmissible idea subject to the pressures of natural selection – reflects the impact of evolutionary ideas on our understanding of how culture develops. It is therefore natural that evolutionary models have been widely applied in recent years to pressing social questions, including the spread of misinformation on social media, the risks associated with AI and the origins of political polarization. Unfortunately, empirical tests of such models are often difficult, since they require access to a ground truth that is hard to measure. I will first discuss efforts to connect evolutionary models of social media to data. I will then discuss the potential of such models to act as tools for "stress testing" social algorithms, such as crowdsourced community moderation (e.g., X's Community Notes) and the output of LLMs.

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This group is open to all CU Boulder staff and faculty and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in accordance with state, federal, and Regent law. Register: https://cvent.me/vmyWEe

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Aug. 27: Overall job search strategySept. 3: Building AI-compatible resumesSept. 10: Writing effective cover lettersSept. 17: Identifying skills to get noticed by employersSept. 24: Building skills that are valued by employersOct. 1: Networking skillsOct. 8: Using AI in the job searchOct. 22: InterviewingOct. 29: Negotiating job offers

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Whether you’ve been meeting regularly or haven’t connected in a while, this is an easy, informal way to spend some time together and build connections with the broader GPMP community.

This event is open to all current participants in the Graduate Peer Mentoring Program (GPMP).

Please RSVP in advance by Oct. 19 so we know how much pizza to order.

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We’ll start with a few minutes to chat and meet other CU readers, then settle in for a quiet reading session. We’ll provide refreshments, plenty of books and a comfortable space with no distractions. Bring whatever you’re currently reading or choose something from our popular reading collection.

Drop in anytime between 12–2 p.m. and stay for as long as you’d like.

First-year and transfer students can also pick up a free copy of this year’s Buffs One Read selection, Lessons from My Teachers.

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To break or not to break: Fracture and adhesion in soft materials

Abstract

Soft polymeric materials, including elastomers, gels, and adhesives, are widely used in applications ranging from tires and soft robotics to tapes and biomedical devices. A tire should resist rupture, while an adhesive should bond firmly and yet release on demand. These seemingly different performance requirements are governed by a common fundamental question: how does a crack propagate in a soft material, whether through the bulk or along an interface?

Addressing this question is challenging because soft polymers can undergo large deformation prior to rupture and often exhibit substantial energy dissipation, obscuring the failure processes near the crack tip. In this talk, I will first present our efforts to understand fracture in soft materials through combined experimental and theoretical approaches. Experimentally, we developed a particle tracking method to quantify full-field, large deformation around a crack by tracking tracer particles in the material. This approach enabled us to directly map the spatial distribution of energy dissipation surrounding a growing crack in a soft viscoelastic solid and to separate intrinsic fracture toughness from bulk dissipation in a viscoelastic adhesive. Theoretically, we developed analytical and computational approaches to quantify energy dissipation during crack growth.

I will then discuss adhesion from the perspective of interfacial fracture. By controlling crack propagation along interfaces, we have developed strategies for programmable and switchable adhesion and investigated the mechanics underlying the adhesion of inflatable elastomeric membranes. I will conclude by discussing opportunities to leverage fracture mechanics for designing soft materials and interfaces with controllable toughness and adhesion.

Background

Rong Long is currently an Associate Professor and Lyall Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado (CU) Boulder. Prior to joining CU in 2014, he was an Assistant Professor at University of Alberta in 2013-2014, a Research Associate at University of Colorado in 2012, and a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University in 2011.

He received his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University in 2011 and his B.S. degree in the same field from University of Science and Technology of China in 2006. He received a few awards including the Young Adhesion Scientist Award (2014), the 3M non-Tenured Faculty Award (2017), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2018) and the Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award (2020). His research interests include continuum mechanics of soft materials, fracture mechanics, contact mechanics, adhesion and biomechanics.

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Consultations are open to all – from undergrad to faculty – and are offered every Tuesday (in-person, virtual) and Thursday (virtual only). Please register to ensure we have the best people available to assist you, and to receive the Zoom link (virtual consults only).

If you are unable to attend our regular hours and would like to set up a one-on-one consultation, or have additional questions, please contact us through our support request form.

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Get creative, unwind and de-stress with our Monster-making Workshop! Create your own personalized stuffed monsters with fabric, buttons, and more! Inspired by all the mythical creatures in last semester's Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder, and Halloween! All supplies and snacks will be provided, but feel free to bring socks, mittens, or similar small clothing items you want to transform. All skill levels are welcome!

This workshop is led by Lead Museum Attendant, Mia.

Free and all are welcome!

Registration is required and limited to 15 participants.

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Through a quick, interactive activity, you’ll learn how you respond to conflict — whether you avoid it, face it head-on or try to keep the peace — and what that means for your relationships with friends, roommates, classmates and partners.

Get simple, practical strategies you can use right away to communicate clearly, set boundaries and navigate conflict with less stress.

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Complexity Reveals the Microscopic Origins of Macroscopic Dynamics

Real complex systems often exhibit collective transitions emerging from interactions across many components. Classical stability theory describes such transitions in spectral space, where dynamics is organized by spatially extended global eigenmodes whose collective nature obscures direct association with individual physical components. Here, we show that structural disorder in empirical random networks can fundamentally alter this picture. These properties induce spectral localization, causing Laplacian modes to concentrate on small subsets of nodes and producing a mode--node correspondence in which collective dynamics becomes governed predominantly by the local behavior of a dominant node together with its effective coupling to the surrounding network. As a consequence, stability properties can be interpreted directly in node space rather than purely in spectral space. Exploiting this principle, we develop a node-resolved framework that predicts transition onsets, identifies the nodes responsible for emergent collective behavior, and restores interpretability in systems where classical modal theories fail. In heterogeneous reaction networks, the same mechanism gives rise to exotic collective states where different subsets of nodes develop distinct dynamical behaviors beyond those associated with homogeneous assumptions. Our results show that complex network structures naturally generate spectral localization, revealing the microscopic drivers of macroscopic dynamics.

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Designed for multilingual learners at low-intermediate through advanced levels, our courses focus on real-world communication to help you meet your personal, career, and educational goals.

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Parking is available in Lot 308 on campus. Please find the parking attendant in the lot for validation information. View driving directions for parking in lot 308.

​If you would like to volunteer at the Mobile Food Pantry, sign up here.

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Through a quick, interactive activity, you’ll learn how you respond to conflict — whether you avoid it, face it head-on or try to keep the peace — and what that means for your relationships with friends, roommates, classmates and partners.

Get simple, practical strategies you can use right away to communicate clearly, set boundaries and navigate conflict with less stress.

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Since the 1980s, global inequality has risen sharply, threatening well-being and democracy. While academic interest in historical inequality has surged—challenging traditional assumptions about social scale and complexity —the field of archaeology itself suffers from modern inequality, particularly affecting women and underrepresented minorities. These two issues are directly connected: diversity gaps and marginalization within the profession today actively limit and impoverish our understanding of past human societies. Addressing both requires examining the historical origins of and resistance to inequality alongside tackling present-day harassment and undervaluation within archaeology.

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Title: A world line: some quantum science with atomic rubidium and strontium

Abstract:

Physics is unique among the sciences in that it can claim to build a consistent picture of the world around us based on just a very small number of natural constants. The prime example of this is the periodic table of elements, bringing to light the quantum character of Nature. This, and the wondrous world of quantum physics, continue to amaze, inspire and challenge. In this talk, I will present a (somewhat random, and somewhat chronological) walk through a variety of (quantum) phenomena observed with ultracold atoms, focusing on rubidium and strontium and their mixing, with a sprinkling of other elements. Lowering the dimensionality of quantum gases will be a recurring theme. It will also touch upon aspects oquantum simulation and sensing, and even a little bit of (general) relativity, nuclear physics, and molecules.

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Sep 10 - Bookmarks & Silent Book Club: Settle in for a cozy evening at the museum! Make your own bookmark, then settle in for 45 minutes of quiet reading with other book lovers. Bring a book, e-book, or audiobook, and stay afterward to share recommendations and chat.

Oct 8 - Spooky Felt Stitch: Get crafty with a spooky twist! Make your own felt-stitch creation inspired by ghosts, bats, and other Halloween favorites. No crafting experience necessary. Just pick a project and have some fun.

November 5 - Art Night: Bring your creativity and make some art! Sketch, color, watercolor, doodle, or try something completely your own. We may also have a student-led guided exercise inspired by the museum’s botanical collections. Come create, experiment, and hang out.

December 3 - Silent Disco (& Hot Cocoa): Need a little fun before finals? Grab some hot cocoa, put on a pair of headphones, and dance your way through the museum. Come for the music, stay for the cocoa, or just hang out and enjoy a fun night with friends.

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Russian Tea Conversation Hour
Thursdays, 5 - 6 p.m.

Hellems N250

Open to all CU Boulder students, faculty, and staff
All levels are welcome

Welcome to Russian Tea! At this one-hour long conversation hour, participants will practice speaking Russian in an informal setting – tea and cookies will be served.

For more information, contact jillian.costello@colorado.edu.

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James Nisbet, University of California, Irvine

As a long-standing and vital element in the production of visual art, water had been employed variously—as subject, liquid base for pigments, and fundamental to the cleaning and maintenance of tools—from time immemorial through the mid twentieth century. Today, the use of water as an artistic material in the production of different forms of sculpture, performance, and installation art is so common that it would be all but impossible to systemically track its use. In the interim—that is, during the latter half of the twentieth century, coincident with dramatic ecological changes at a planetary level—the element of water began to be employed in the work of the postwar neo-avant-garde, and, increasingly, throughout subsequent experimental movements of the twentieth century. Taking select contemporary practices as a point of departure, this paper will consider the range and genealogy of these activities—focused primarily on North America and Western Europe—in the hope of distilling the disparate instances in which water appears during the period of 1945–2000 into a more closely connected series of conversations among artists and orientations of practice.

James Nisbet is Professor in the Department of Art History and PhD Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He has published widely on the history and theory of modern and contemporary art, with special interests in ecocritical visual art and the history of photography. Nisbet’s research has been supported by institutions including Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities, Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center, Dumbarton Oaks, and Getty Research Institute. His book projects include Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s (MIT Press, 2014), Second Site (Princeton University Press, 2021), and as editor with Lyle Massey, The Invention of the American Desert: Art, Land, and the Politics of Environment (University of California Press, 2021).

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Take a break from studying and unwind with Outdoor Pursuits at S’mores Under the Stars. Enjoy a relaxing evening on the Rooftop Terrace with free s’mores, great company and a chance to recharge before heading back to your studies. This free event is open to all students.

Cost: Free
Hosted by: Outdoor Pursuits (OP Trips)

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This presentation is in association with CU Boulder’s High Speed Digital Engineering (HSD) Program. We aim to connecting students, researchers, and industry professionals through technical talks on signal integrity, packaging, PCB design, interconnects, power integrity, and modern high-performance computing.

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Though the design and color utilized in Deep Sea is enough to keep viewers fascinated, there’s way more than meets the eye to this feature. The themes of loss and loneliness play a major role in the story, with the sea, the restaurant, and all the various characters Shenxiu encounters all symbolic stand-ins for elements in her real life. It’s Alice in Wonderland underwater, if Alice was having a lucid dream, and desperately trying to turn a nightmare into something more palatable.

Deep Sea is decidedly not for those inclined towards depression. To say that the film doesn’t have a Disney ending would be a vast understatement, and parents should consider seeing the film before they show it to younger children. The plot is fairly loose and very non-linear, and as a result, that makes the experience of watching the movie feel all the more like a dream.

It’s best to see Deep Sea on the big screen, where audiences can let it wash over them (as it were), and let it take them wherever it may, which will depend on individual perspective. It should be seen for the spectacular colors and dreamy undersea visuals painstakingly created by the director and his crew.

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Thursdays 7:30PM-8:30PM(Oct. 1 / 8 / 15/ 22)

Thursdays 6:30PM-7:30PM (Nov. 5 / 12 / 19, Dec. 3)

All Japanese language learners who are currently taking or have previously taken JPNS2110 or a higher-level course in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations are invited!

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The Artist Series has brought the globe's finest jazz, classical, world music and dance performers to Boulder for 90 years. Order your tickets today to guarantee the best seats.

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In this fast-paced comedy, four couples attempt to piece together what happened while keeping up appearances. As the story shifts and the stakes rise, misunderstandings compound and the evening unravels into a whirlwind of farcical chaos.

Packed with sharp dialogue and perfectly timed twists, Rumors is a hilarious look at the lengths we go to protect our reputations and the absurdity that follows.

Whether you're interested in the classics or modern musicals, Hip-Hop or contemporary dance—or perhaps a bit of it all—remarkable performances are the heart of CU Boulder Theatre & Dance in the College of Arts and Sciences. The cutting-edge works brought to you by faculty, guest artists, and the stars of tomorrow appeal to the heart of every performing arts enthusiast.

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Sessions will tackle how we build, power, and grow things; how we build community and work with partners ethically; how to think creatively; how to keep people safe; and how to overcome sociopolitical obstacles. Come help us build an interconnected ecosystem for actionable sustainability research.

Session Proposals Open August 3rd
(Close August 14th)

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All students are welcome.

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All students are welcome!

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The summit will create opportunities for students to see what researchers are working on and explore undergraduate research opportunities. CU researchers can identify potential interdisciplinary collaborations, while external partners can discover opportunities to work with CU on a variety of sustainability challenges. Investors can gain insight into what CU researchers are developing and what is in the pipeline, from discovery to implementation.

The full agenda is now available and features keynote addresses by Cassandra Brooks and Chris Winters, remarks from Chancellor Justin Schwartz, and more.

Registration for this free two‑day event is now open, welcoming community members and external partners to explore CU Boulder’s sustainability research landscape, share their work, connect with colleagues, and contribute to meaningful, forward‑looking collaborations.

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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Title: Nonlinear χ2 and χ3 optics in multipass cells.

Abstract: Nonlinear multipass cells represent quasi-waveguides that suppress self-focusing and facilitate the build-up of nonlinear effects. I describe recent progress in multipass nonlinear optics, in particular focusing on spectral broadening and pulse compression, free-space quasi-phase matching, and optical parametric amplification.

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Friday, October 9 at 10:30am

The Brand Studios, 1301 Walnut St, Boulder

With Brooks Bostick of on/Sight, Sarah Halle of Vermilion, and John Kadlic of Parallel Path.

Everyone in and around the creative field is welcome. Bring yourself, bring a friend, join your local creative community. Free, no tickets, no RSVP.

Presented by The Brand Studios at CU Boulder. Hosted by Michael Benjamin, Brand Studios adjunct teacher.

Full list of sponsors and partners on @studiosessions_co.

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In recent years, explorations in quantum gravity have surprisingly resulted in many fruitful new developments in quantum field theory (QFT). In this talk, I will present our recent work on a more fundamental question: what determines a quantum field theory, which is strongly motivated by questions about wormholes in quantum gravity. On the QFT side, our result is summarized by a theorem: any unitary QFT is uniquely determined, up to unitary isomorphisms, by its Euclidean partition functions on closed manifolds; moreover, states that can be prepared by Euclidean path integrals are the invariant states under a certain symmetry group. Reflection positivity, the Euclidean avatar of unitarity, plays a crucial role in proving the theorem. On the quantum gravity side, the existence of wormholes can cause partition functions and Hilbert spaces to fail to factorize. The theorem gives a complete characterization of any such failures of factorization. From this perspective, wormhole-induced failures of factorization are, in a precise sense, red herrings.

CTQM Seminars start at 12:30pm, with lunch served starting at 12pm.

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Amanda Nugent, Senior Director of Development for Campus Institutes, Office of Advancement

Donna K. Axel, Senior Director, Research Development, Research and Innovation Office (RIO)

Title: How Nature Can Help Address the Mental Health Treatment Gap

Abstract:

Globally, over 80% of people in need of mental health interventions do not receive care. Over the past decade, my team has shown that we can train people with lived experience and community health workers to expand access to care. Yet, no matter how many people we train, there will never be enough providers. Further, providers are facing high levels of burnout. What if one of the most scalable solutions is not in a clinic, but actually right outside of our doors? Humans spend 93% of our lives indoors, despite decades of research demonstrating mental and physical health benefits of nature exposure. Through processes proposed in attention restoration theory, nature exposure can shift cognition, reduce burnout, and improve well-being. In this talk, I will share more about a one-year sabbatical award funded by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), which allows me to spend this year in Boulder advancing the field of nature and mental health. The sabbatical award aims to bridge evidence-based mental health interventions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, with the benefits of nature exposure to improve patient and provider well-being. I will share new initiatives in this area of nature-informed cognitive behavioral therapy and opportunities for collaboration. Ultimately the goal of this work is to shift norms of practice for cognitive behavioral therapy providers to leverage the natural world—for themselves, their patients, and the environment.

Bio:

Dr. Jessica Magidson is a tenured Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Director of the Center for Substance Use, Addiction & Health Research (CESAR), and the Director of IN-PLACE: An Interdisciplinary Network for Place-Based Learning, Action, & Community-Engaged EnvironMental Health—a newly launched program to advance nature and mental health at University of Maryland. Dr. Magidson has been the PI of over $25 million dollars in NIH funding, largely from NIDA, NIMH, and Fogarty and is currently the PI of seven NIH grants (5 R01s, an R24, and an R21). She has over 160 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters focused on global mental health, addiction, and implementation science. She is currently on sabbatical for the 2026-2027 academic year at CU Boulder, focused on advancing the field of nature and mental health through an Association for Psychological Science (APS) Sabbatical Award. She is trained as a clinical psychologist and practices as a nature-informed cognitive behavioral therapist. She received her bachelors degree in Psychology and Spanish summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, her PhD in Clinical Psychology from University of Maryland, and trained at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in behavioral medicine and global psychiatry.

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Registration is required if attending virtually.

All sessions begin promptly at 12:15 p.m. Please arrive a few minutes early if attending in person - doors to the meditation close at 12:15 p.m.

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Seminar: Above and Beyond the Beetles - Life and Death at the Fraser Experimental Forest

Abstract: During the early 2000s, a mountain pine beetle outbreak impacted high-elevation watersheds across Colorado and much of western North America. Work conducted at the US Forest Service’s Fraser Experimental Forest and other locations around the State helped to evaluate the impacts of widespread tree mortality on ecosystem processes and watershed nitrogen losses. The insect outbreak coupled with changing patterns of atmospheric deposition provided an opportunity to evaluate how high-elevation catchments respond to disturbance. Overall, these findings may have implications for the current episode of insect mortality occurring along Colorado’s Front Range.

Bio: Chuck Rhoades is a biogeochemist who studies forest watersheds as part of the US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station. His research evaluates linkages between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in managed and unmanaged areas. For the past 23 years he has studied wildfire responses and ecosystem recovery after severe wildfires. Much of his work addresses the role of upland and riparian soils and vegetation in regulating nitrogen and carbon retention and export from forest watersheds and how ecological disturbance and land management alter these processes.

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On Sept. 25, Oct. 9 and 16, Graduate student Colleen Ahern will guide us through collective tarot readings and deck creation, while emphasizing tarot's LGBTQ+ history.

All students are welcome.

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Lichens cannot migrate, making them reliant on the rocks or trees to which they’re affixed, where they gauge subtle changes in temperature, humidity, air pollution, and more. They can remind us that survival, rarely solitary, can mean attachment and adaptation. They suggest, too, that life is rarely solitary, and that what appears small or still may be profoundly connected to the fate of an entire landscape. Yet they are often overlooked. Due to lack of attention, visibility, and study, lichens are among the least recognized organisms from a conservation planning perspective and are among the most threatened of any class of organisms. They represent arguably one of the last frontiers of biodiversity discovery for organisms in western North America. To look closely at lichens is therefore to confront a larger question—what else have we failed to see simply because they keep time on a larger timescale?

Project Collaborators

Erin Espelie is an Associate Professor and Chair of Department Chair of Cinema Studies & the Moving Image Arts at CU Boulder, where she co-founded NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts in 2017. Her films, which ask questions about ways of knowing and “ideas of order,” have shown at the New York Film Festival, SFMoMA, the Museum of the Moving Image, and more.

Erin Manzitto-Tripp is an Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Botany at the CU Natural History Museum and Herbarium. She is keenly interested in discovery, documentation, and conservation of the North American lichen biota.

Brad Gallagher is an interactive artist and researcher whose practice engages with the concept of sympoiesis, or ‘making with.’ Through interactive installations and performance interfaces, he explores how movement generates complexity, creativity, and cognition through the entanglement of human and technological actors. To see more of his work, visit: https://vimeo.com/jbgallagher

Emma Piper-Burket is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer, and educator using fiction, non-fiction, and collected media to investigate interactions between nature, society, and the human spirit. She was a 2024 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow and has received support from the Sundance Institute, Bemis Center, Visual Studies Workshop, and Light Cone.

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Dates for the Spring 2026 Semester, all coffee hour events this semester take place in the C4C Abrams Lounge (3rd Floor):

Friday, Sept. 11Friday, Oct. 9Friday, Nov. 13Friday, Dec. 4 Stop by for free coffee, tea, snacks, and conversation! International Coffee Hour is open to all members of the CU Community. Students, faculty, staff – everyone is welcome!

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Title 2 (Fri seminar) - Photonics for Molecular Sensing and Spectroscopy II: Catching Transient Intermediates in Catalysis and Biophysics, Fractionation-Free Characterization of Polymers, and Controlling Spin Dynamics in Cold Molecules and Chiral Microcavities

Abstract 2 - Photonic approaches allow new dimensions of control to be exerted across molecular and materials sciences. In one story, I will describe how use of plasmonic nanostructures called Zero Mode Waveguides allows access to high concentration single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, which in turn allows the observation of never-before detected transient intermediates and rich kinetic analysis in biophysics and chemistry, with applications in the allosteric control of ion channels and in C-C bond forming reactions in molecular organometallic catalysts. In a second story, I will discuss how new label-free single-molecule measurements, mass photometry, are allowing the disruption of a decades old analytical problem, the analysis of the molar mass distribution (MMD) of polymers. Molecule-by-molecule determination of MMD, without fractionation, is possible and competitive with standard GPC/SEC. In a third story, I will demonstrate how optical control of spin dynamics can be achieved in single molecules of 5AP, a small molecule that breaks Hund's rule. Here, careful selection of excitation color allows gating of the triplet state, potentially allowing optical cycling without alteration of spin state. Finally, I will show how materials exhibiting LD-LB, an interference of the linear dichroism and birefringence, allowing observation of circular dichroism even in centrosymmetric systems, breaking a textbook rule. Such materials allow creation of 2D chiral microcavities, and potentially a way to create chiral polaritons and high fidelity light-spin transduction.

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Photonic approaches allow new dimensions of control to be exerted across molecular and materials sciences. In one story, I will describe how use of plasmonic nanostructures called Zero Mode Waveguides allows access to high concentration single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, which in turn allows the observation of never-before detected transient intermediates and rich kinetic analysis in biophysics and chemistry, with applications in the allosteric control of ion channels and in C-C bond forming reactions in molecular organometallic catalysts.

In a second story, I will discuss how new label-free single-molecule measurements, mass photometry, are allowing the disruption of a decades old analytical problem, the analysis of the molar mass distribution (MMD) of polymers. Molecule-by-molecule determination of MMD, without fractionation, is possible and competitive with standard GPC/SEC.

In a third story, I will demonstrate how optical control of spin dynamics can be achieved in single molecules of 5AP, a small molecule that breaks Hund's rule. Here, careful selection of excitation color allows gating of the triplet state, potentially allowing optical cycling without alteration of spin state.

Finally, I will show how materials exhibiting LD-LB, an interference of the linear dichroism and birefringence, allowing observation of circular dichroism even in centrosymmetric systems, breaking a textbook rule. Such materials allow creation of 2D chiral microcavities, and potentially a way to create chiral polaritons and high fidelity light-spin transduction.

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We are kicking off on October 9th with Dr. Natalie Mendoza discussing her new book, Good Neighbor at Home: Mexican American Politics in the WWII era. She examines the impact of geopolitics and war on Mexican American calls for greater federal responsibility in securing racial equality in the Southwest!

This talk is free and open to the public; we have refreshments, including Postino's charcuterie and hummus boards. Please join us to kick off this CU tradition.

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Standard bowling rates apply.

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Ready to try climbing or meet new climbing buddies? Come hang out with us for a night of support, empowerment, laughter and community.

Our friendly staff will be here to show you the ropes, belay you and keep the stoke high—whether you're brand new or a seasoned climber.

This event is FREE and open to all LGBTQ+ community and allies, no matter your experience level.

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In this fast-paced comedy, four couples attempt to piece together what happened while keeping up appearances. As the story shifts and the stakes rise, misunderstandings compound and the evening unravels into a whirlwind of farcical chaos.

Packed with sharp dialogue and perfectly timed twists, Rumors is a hilarious look at the lengths we go to protect our reputations and the absurdity that follows.

Whether you're interested in the classics or modern musicals, Hip-Hop or contemporary dance—or perhaps a bit of it all—remarkable performances are the heart of CU Boulder Theatre & Dance in the College of Arts and Sciences. The cutting-edge works brought to you by faculty, guest artists, and the stars of tomorrow appeal to the heart of every performing arts enthusiast.

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Open houses are only held when the skies are clear. If you're not sure if we'll be open, check out our local weather, check our facebook or instagram an hour before scheduled time, or call us, on Friday night 15 minutes before scheduled time, for an observing status at 303-492-2020.

There is no charge for the Observatory's Open House nights ... the stars are free to everyone! Sessions typically last from 1-2 hours, depending upon the weather and the quality of the night.

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All students are welcome!

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Registration is required to participate in this event. Register as an individual or group. Deadline to register is Friday, September 25.

Visit here to learn more and sign up to be a volunteer: https://www.colorado.edu/volunteer/buffs-big-event

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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Co-sponsored by the University of Colorado Center for STEM Learning, College of Engineering and Applied Science, and IEEE Denver Section, BSC is expected to welcome 150–200 attendees for an engaging day of discovery, making, and learning.

Join us on Saturday, Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL).

Come explore, create, and build something cool!

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Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED and First Aid will teach you how to recognize and respond to adult, infant and child victims in various emergency situations. This course offers a two-year certification in American Red Cross adult, infant and child CPR, use of an Automated External Defibrillator, and standard first aid precautions.

This American Red Cross course offers certification in: Standard first aid, adult, infant and child CPR, Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and recognizing and caring for breathing emergencies

Location: Rec Center, Medium Ice Rink OverlookCost: $85 for members | $105 for non-membersAll participants must be CU Boulder students, faculty, staff or affiliates to register. Rec Center membership is not required.

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Join the CU Boulder Esports Discord server for tournament schedule: Join the CU Esports Discord Server!

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The show is narrated by Barbara Rojas-Ayala, a Chilean astronomer.

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Standard bowling rates apply.

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*This event is free and open only to enrolled first-year undergraduate CEAS students. Transportation is not provided, participants are responsible for making their own transportation arrangements.

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Tickets for alumni, family and friends are available for discounted group rates! Additionally, the first 100 people to purchase tickets will receive a special CU Boulder x Colorado Rapids hat that you can pick up during the game over at the redemption table on top of Section 136. Please note that all seats are in Section 121 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. We hope to CU there!

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He leads soldiers to glorious victories with the mighty sword of his father, killed when Toldi was a child. But first, storm clouds loom as Toldi becomes an orphan and a serf, his cowardly, resented older brother the rightful heir who taunts Toldi and provokes his rage. Eventually becoming a knight, Toldi continues to contend with triumphs, defeats, disguises, and duplicity, love and fate, eventually pledging himself to honorable behavior. As narrative relief, pastoral scenes repeatedly punctuate harsh ones, offering an alternative, pleasing reality.

Toldi, believed now to be an actual historical person, enjoys extraordinary strength, demonstrating his superior power in individual medieval contests and massive battles. Upon occasion, his anger and jealousy defeat his better intentions, causing distress. Characteristic of legends, Toldi’s story teaches lessons about murder, war, greed, and ambition. As Toldi explicitly states in his voiceover narration, “We are yearning for light and clarity, yet our mundane passions keep on polluting our pure goals with the mire of sin.”

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In this fast-paced comedy, four couples attempt to piece together what happened while keeping up appearances. As the story shifts and the stakes rise, misunderstandings compound and the evening unravels into a whirlwind of farcical chaos.

Packed with sharp dialogue and perfectly timed twists, Rumors is a hilarious look at the lengths we go to protect our reputations and the absurdity that follows.

Whether you're interested in the classics or modern musicals, Hip-Hop or contemporary dance—or perhaps a bit of it all—remarkable performances are the heart of CU Boulder Theatre & Dance in the College of Arts and Sciences. The cutting-edge works brought to you by faculty, guest artists, and the stars of tomorrow appeal to the heart of every performing arts enthusiast.

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All students are welcome!

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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This film is narrated by former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison and Emmy-award winning actor Keith David and includes original music by Claudio Ragazzi, a Grammy Award-winning professor at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.

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In this fast-paced comedy, four couples attempt to piece together what happened while keeping up appearances. As the story shifts and the stakes rise, misunderstandings compound and the evening unravels into a whirlwind of farcical chaos.

Packed with sharp dialogue and perfectly timed twists, Rumors is a hilarious look at the lengths we go to protect our reputations and the absurdity that follows.

Whether you're interested in the classics or modern musicals, Hip-Hop or contemporary dance—or perhaps a bit of it all—remarkable performances are the heart of CU Boulder Theatre & Dance in the College of Arts and Sciences. The cutting-edge works brought to you by faculty, guest artists, and the stars of tomorrow appeal to the heart of every performing arts enthusiast.

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This film is narrated by George Takei from Star Trek.

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CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Week is designed to elevate awareness across campus, build a sense of shared community, create opportunities for collaboration and recognize exceptional leadership and outcomes.

Join us as we:

Highlight and shape tomorrow's leadersShowcase some of our most compelling innovationsDemonstrate CU Boulder's positive impact on humanity
Schedule of Events

Monday, October 12

11 a.m.–1 p.m.: Indigenous Peoples' Day: Moderated Keynote and Luncheon10 a.m.–3 p.m.: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Sidewalk SymposiumTuesday, October 13

11–11:45 a.m.: State of the Research and Innovation Enterprise1–3 p.m.: Graduate Student Dialogue on Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship2–4 p.m.: Biomedical Engineering ShowcaseWednesday, October 14

1 p.m.–2:45 p.m.: Bison Back: Bringing Our Relatives Home10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.: Core Facilities Open House and Front Range Industry and Postdoc Symposium2:30–4:30 p.m.: Research to Impact: Funding and Industry Partnership StrategiesThursday, October 15

9–10 a.m.: Advancing Public Impact Research: Public Health, Life and Death, Politics and Bible VersesFriday, October 16

3–5 p.m.: ATLAS Research Open Labs

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All students are welcome!

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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Are you tired of the boring, repetitive nature of professional development workshops? Do you want to be challenged, add performance and communication skills to your CV, and belong to a community of brilliant, like-minded academics? This semester, Grad+ Mastery will focus on purpose. Is purpose something we find, or something we build? Human behavior research frames purpose as a dynamic person-environment process that emerges through our interaction with the world around us. This perspective not only allows but requires active engagement in the formation and execution of purpose.

We struggle to articulate why we do what we do, think what we think, and want what we want, yet we still expect to feel motivated, take action, and maintain focus. Purpose is now widely recognized as essential to human well-being, with a strong association between perceived meaningfulness and a host of improved psychological benefits. You are the most important project you will ever take on. Invest in your success and join Grad+ Mastery today.

If you have already participated in Grad+ Seminar Series (both Fundamentals and Special Topics), then sign up for Grad+ Mastery to take it to the next level.

Outcomes

Learn how action helps us refine purpose through meaningful experiencesCreate opportunities to explore and strengthen purpose“Read” your behaviors for purpose alignmentCultivate confidence through deliberate practiceInvest time, rather than “spend” it, for a high purpose ROIDiscover ways to incorporate purpose research into your teaching and training

All graduate students welcome!

Register by Sept. 3, 2026. Contact Hailey.Herman@colorado.edu with any questions.

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CU Boulder students, staff, faculty and members of the Boulder community are invited to participate in a community celebration and observance of Indigenous Peoples Day through campus programs on October 12 through 14, 2026.

This year’s theme, "Still Here: Refusal, Remembrance, and the Future Beyond 150," critically reflects on 150 years of CU Boulder within the longer arc of Indigenous presence, perseverance, and survival. It centers enduring legacies of Indigenous being and refusal – the refusal to disappear, to assimilate, to be misnamed, or erased. It creates space to simultaneously mark institutional history and affirm Indigenous continuance in body, tradition, art, scholarship, and activism.

Moderated conversation with Zahn McClarnon

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(Host: Oscar Gonzalez oscar.gonzalez@colorado.edu)

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There will be sandwiches, drinks, and snacks!

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Drop in to the Academic Coaching Study Hall to work quietly and independently on homework, exam prep, projects, or whatever you’ve been putting off. You don’t need an appointment, and you’re welcome to arrive late or leave early.

Work alongside other studentsGet a little extra structure and accountabilityAsk an Academic Coach questions or get support when you need itSnacks, fidgets, silent timers & intention sheets provided!

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Light refreshements will be available.

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Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Chinese Conversation Table! The Chinese language table is a great place for students and faculty who want to practice their oral Chinese. Learners of all levels are welcome to join. You can also make friends with members of the university community. You will surely learn something new!

We will meet IN PERSON on the following dates in fall 2026

Monday, August 31 at 4 - 5 p.m.

Monday, October 12, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m.

We will meet ONLINE on the following dates in fall 2026

Thursday, October 1, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m.

Tuesday, November 3, 3:40 - 4:40 p.m.

Contact: runqing.qi@colorado.edu

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Born in Tampico, Mexico, Fernandez grew up in California and makes her home in San Francisco. She has created residencies and public work in Haiti, Brazil, Spain, South Africa, Cuba, Mexico & throughout the United States. Major public projects include On The Horizon, which was featured in the 2021 Lands End exhibition, organized by the FOR-SITE Foundation. In one highly visible work, she erased the border between Tijuana & San Diego by painting a portion sky blue while wearing a tango dress and heels to create an illusion of a hole on the wall from afar.

Fernández’s work was featured as a Solo Booth at the Armory Show in 2022 as part of the Focus section, a special curated presentation of work by artists centered on environments and borders selected by Carla Acevedo-Yates. Fernández’s work is in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California; Indi­anapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; 21c Museum Hotels, Louisville, Kentucky; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Indiana; The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry, Riverside, California; and the Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, California and Paris, France.

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Leading Others: Inclusion

Facilitated by Center for Leadership director, Dr. Stefanie Johnson

Explore how inclusion strengthens teams, improves decision-making, and helps groups achieve better outcomes. You'll gain practical strategies to recognize different perspectives, foster belonging, and effectively lead in diverse environments. Facilitated by Center for Leadership director, Leeds professor, author of the Wall Street Journal National Bestseller, Inclusify: The power of uniqueness and belonging to build innovative teams.

Why participate?

Earn a digital badge for each workshop to showcase on LinkedIn, résumés, and graduate school applications.Join a program where 90%+ of participants report increased confidence in leading teams and projects.Complete a workshop in each of the three core areas, Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading Change, to earn a leadership graduation cord. Workshops can be completed across multiple semesters.Other dates in the Emerging Leadership Academy series:

Monday, Nov. 9Monday, Feb. 8Monday, March 8Monday, April 12

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Each workshop includes interactive learning, reflection, and actionable takeaways, plus dinner!

Leading Change: Civic Engagement

Facilitated by the Service Learning & Impact in Community Engagement (SLICE) office, this session explores how leaders create positive change through community engagement and civic action.

Why participate?

Earn a digital badge for each workshop to showcase on LinkedIn, résumés, and graduate school applications.
Join a program where 90%+ of participants report increased confidence in leading teams and projects.
Complete a workshop in each of the three core areas, Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading Change, to earn a leadership graduation cord. Workshops can be completed across multiple semesters.

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About Bree Fram

Bree Fram is a retired U.S. Space Force colonel, astronautical engineer, author and speaker. During her 23 years in uniform, she deployed to Iraq and Qatar, helped establish the Space Force as a separate military service and became the first openly transgender officer selected for and promoted to colonel in the U.S. military. She came out publicly in 2016, on the day the military first lifted its transgender service ban, and was forced into retirement in 2025 under a renewed ban.

About Educating the Whole Human

Educating the Whole Human is a University Libraries speaker series featuring accomplished scholars whose acclaimed work, shaped by lived experience, expands how knowledge is created and understood.

The series invites students, faculty and community members to explore how these speakers combine expertise and lived experience to ask new questions, create original work and put knowledge into practice—and to consider what those approaches could make possible in their own studies, research, careers and lives.

This program is supported by a University of Colorado Boulder Impact Grant.

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CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Week is designed to elevate awareness across campus, build a sense of shared community, create opportunities for collaboration and recognize exceptional leadership and outcomes.

Join us as we:

Highlight and shape tomorrow's leadersShowcase some of our most compelling innovationsDemonstrate CU Boulder's positive impact on humanity
Schedule of Events

Monday, October 12

11 a.m.–1 p.m.: Indigenous Peoples' Day: Moderated Keynote and Luncheon10 a.m.–3 p.m.: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Sidewalk SymposiumTuesday, October 13

11–11:45 a.m.: State of the Research and Innovation Enterprise1–3 p.m.: Graduate Student Dialogue on Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship2–4 p.m.: Biomedical Engineering ShowcaseWednesday, October 14

1 p.m.–2:45 p.m.: Bison Back: Bringing Our Relatives Home10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.: Core Facilities Open House and Front Range Industry and Postdoc Symposium2:30–4:30 p.m.: Research to Impact: Funding and Industry Partnership StrategiesThursday, October 15

9–10 a.m.: Advancing Public Impact Research: Public Health, Life and Death, Politics and Bible VersesFriday, October 16

3–5 p.m.: ATLAS Research Open Labs

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All students are welcome!

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Dates: Aug. 25-Dec. 8Days: TuesdaysTime: 7:30-8:30 a.m.Location: Rec Center, Studio 1Fee: Free

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Main Campus: CASE, Room W344*East Campus: SEEC, Room S225

*For Oct. 13 only, the Main Campus write-in will conclude at 11 a.m. due to a room conflict

Time to show up and write! Do you need a dedicated space to help you focus on your academic writing? Sign up to attend our weekly write-in sessions.

Research on academic writing suggests that making writing a regular, scheduled practice—rather than relying on occasional marathon writing sessions—can help writers make steady progress and increase productivity. Weekly writing groups that provide protected writing time can also foster accountability, camaraderie, and a stronger sense of research community.

The goal of these sessions is to help you put that research into practice by devoting a few focused hours to your writing each week. You’ll have dedicated time and space to build a sustainable writing habit, work independently alongside fellow graduate students, and track your progress regularly.

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Session 1: Mindful Awareness for Focus and Attention: What does it mean to be mindful? Learn to train the mind through focus and improve your attention without judgment.

Session 2: Mindfulness of Breathing: The mind wanders naturally. Learn to use the breath as an anchor for the wandering mind.

Session 3: Understanding the Brain and Stress Response: Learn the science behind our stress response and how to calm and reset when feeling stressed and activated.

Session 4: Noticing our Thoughts and Emotions: When we learn mindful practices to notice our passing, fleeting thoughts and emotions, we can better meet the moment as it is, without judgment, resulting in less stress and a greater sense of peace.

Session 5: Noticing Body Sensations: Release Tension for Reduced Stress: Why is it important to notice sensations in the body and how can that help release tension and stress?

Session 6: Hardwiring our Brain for Positivity and Well-being: Noticing generosity, choosing gratitude and the power of kind thoughts are mental medicine for our overall wellbeing. When we intentionally focus on positivity, we strengthen our neural pathways for greater wellbeing.

Session 7: Mindful Behavior vs Autopilot Behavior: What is autopilot behavior and why is it problematic? How can mindful behavior help improve our relationships at home and work?

Session 8: Mindful Self-Compassion: Discover practices to cultivate kindness and understanding towards ourselves, especially in times of stress. This powerful practice of befriending ourselves reduces stress and increases compassion.

All sessions are led by Kim Stephens.

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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This fall, our Grad+ Special Topics seminar draws on behavioral science to explore how graduate students can develop, define, and leverage identity to build confidence and resilience. If you want to increase motivation and decrease stress, join us as we reimagine what success looks like, sharpen focus, and kick procrastination to the curb.

Identity is built through the personal, autobiographical narratives we construct and communicate, both internally and externally. Confidence in who you are, and clarity about your identity, are critical to resilience. Don’t miss this opportunity to build self-awareness, apply behavioral strategies grounded in research, and connect with fellow scholars across the CU Boulder community.

We recommend you participate in a year of Grad+ Fundamentals before advancing to Grad+ Special Topics series.

Outcomes

Clarify your sense of self to strengthen identity and self-imageExplore how values, beliefs, and experiences integrate into a cohesive self-conceptPersonalize research-backed, behavior-based strategies to support your growth and developmentUnderstand how cultural norms, family context, and personal experience shape identityLearn how identity can address patterns of avoidance and inactionUse identity to improve prioritization and reduce procrastination

All graduate students welcome!

Register by Sept. 3, 2026. Contact Hailey.Herman@colorado.edu with any questions.

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of this training, you will be able to...

Identify ways that people are feeling excluded in virtual meetingsIdentify equity gaps in virtual meetingsName common barriers to inclusion in virtual meetingsApply strategies to mitigate barriers in virtual meetingsWho should attend

This training is intended for any CU Boulder faculty or staff member who wants to learn how to make virtual meetings more inclusive.

Cost: There is no cost for this course

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Sessions take place online via Zoom unless specifically noted and will be approximately 1 hour with time for questions. For in-person workshops please bring your Buff OneCard and arrive no later than 5 minutes before the presentation start time. Sept 9, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. - Abrams LoungeSept 17, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. - C4C S350October 13, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. (remote)November 4, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. (remote)

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Meets the second Tuesday of the month from 11:00 am - 12:00p.

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The Elections Committee meets the second Tuesday of every month in 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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CU Boulder students and alumni from all majors, experience levels and backgrounds are welcome to attend this free event.

Check out our Career Fair HQ: Your Guide to Prep, Plan & Participate and sign up on Handshake!

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Join Jeremiah Contreras to explore three ways faculty can design learning in this environment: using AI to encourage inquiry and curiosity, guiding students through the process of thinking with simulations and structured AI interactions, and designing assessments that surface understanding rather than simply evaluate a final answer.

The session will focus less on particular AI tools and more on practical approaches faculty can adapt to their own disciplines, including circumstances where limiting AI may be important to the learning process.

Leave this session with practical examples and questions you can use to rethink how students inquire, work through problems, and demonstrate understanding in a world where AI is increasingly capable of doing the work itself.

Presenter: Jeremiah Contreras, Faculty Director of Digital Innovation for Teaching & Learning, Leeds School of Business — Accounting

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Consultations are open to all – from undergrad to faculty – and are offered every Tuesday (in-person, virtual) and Thursday (virtual only). Please register to ensure we have the best people available to assist you, and to receive the Zoom link (virtual consults only).

If you are unable to attend our regular hours and would like to set up a one-on-one consultation, or have additional questions, please contact us through our support request form.

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Day: Tuesdays
Time: 1-2 p.m.
Location: The Center, C4C N320
Facilitators: Lucien Hawk (they/them)
Specific focus: Trans and gender diverse students

Day: Wednesdays
Time: 2-3 p.m.
Location: The Center, C4C N320
Facilitator: Ynigo Velayo (he/him)
Specific focus: BIPOC students

Note: Let’s Talk does not provide crisis services and is not a substitute for mental health treatment.

All students are welcome!

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Meet the faculty and student researchers behind innovations like:

Smart tattoos that monitor health in real timeWearable devices that support movement and recoveryAdvanced imaging technologies for studying the brain and bodyAI-powered tools for detecting heart and vascular diseaseNext-generation biomaterials for medical implantsMicrofluidic technologies that improve diagnostics and blood health

Through interactive demos and hands-on exhibits, discover how these are improving quality of life and creating impact far beyond the lab.

All are welcome. No background in engineering required.

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Show will start promptly at 4:00 PM, doors open at 3:30 PM.

All student are welcome.

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Ready to take the next step? Don't miss out—register today! Attendees will receive an application fee waiver for the upcoming cohort. If you require accommodation(s) for this event, please contact Admissions Specialist Gabbi Good at onlineMACC@colorado.edu.

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Each session will consist of:

5-10 minute guided meditation that includes poetry and/or a writing prompt with suggestions

10 minutes of free writing

10 minutes to share (optional)

Led by Kerry Love.

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Stick around afterward because CU Libraries are capping off each day in October with Shine on Norlin an incredible anniversary light show on Norlin Quad!

Tours and light show are free, pre-registration is requested. Any last minute changes (due to weather, etc.) will be sent to registrants.

Please note that there is no public parking available south of the CU Museum. Visitors can use street parking on The Hill or paid spots are generally available at the Limelight Hotel or CU's Euclid Autopark.

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Department of Anthropology

Costa Rica, Mexico, & Vietnam

Learn more about Ed Abroad’s summer programs led by Anthropology faculty! Programs are running in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Vietnam and coursework applies to many majors beyond ANTH. Join us at our info session to learn more about how you can spend your summer studying archaeology in Mexico, learn about coffee culture in Costa Rica, and explore the primates and biodiversity of Vietnam!

Apply by December 1

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How might we solve problems in new and unexpected ways? In this hands-on workshop, you'll explore creativity and design thinking tools to better understand problems, generate ideas, and imagine new possibilities.

Get curious, think differently, challenge the obvious.

In each of the five Innovation Workshop Series workshops, you’ll work with a professional who’s an expert in the field, from ideation to customer discovery to prototyping to storytelling. You can drop into any one workshop or attend them all—think of it like choosing which tools you need for problem-solving. Whether you want to build keg-powered bikes in your garage or learn some of the skills you’ll need to set yourself apart when you’re applying for jobs, we invite you to come build cool stuff with us in these sandbox-style workshops.

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Dr. Kali Rubaii, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University

In Resurgency, Kali Rubaii offers detailed ethnographic insight into how decades of war have affected everyday life in Iraq. Drawing on fieldwork in Anbar province and Iraqi Kurdistan in 2014–15 and 2021–24, Rubaii foregrounds the practices of displaced people who stubbornly outlast their occupiers, returning to homes that feel estranging, repairing war-damaged land, and surviving into futures to which they have been disinvited. Following Anbari farmers in their struggle to counter the social and environmental fallout from toxic military waste, depleted ecosystems, and transformed political economies, Resurgency expands the temporal and descriptive categories of what war is—and what resistance looks like. By asking what actions and dispositions make sense when conditions of survival are diminished, and when today may be better than tomorrow, Rubaii offers new methods and insights to those concerned about the possibilities of life amid environmental devastation, mass displacement, and the slow violence of the forever wars.

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This week: Chloe Matthews, Director of Admissions & Diversity Initiatives, Boston University School of Law

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CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Week is designed to elevate awareness across campus, build a sense of shared community, create opportunities for collaboration and recognize exceptional leadership and outcomes.

Join us as we:

Highlight and shape tomorrow's leadersShowcase some of our most compelling innovationsDemonstrate CU Boulder's positive impact on humanity
Schedule of Events

Monday, October 12

11 a.m.–1 p.m.: Indigenous Peoples' Day: Moderated Keynote and Luncheon10 a.m.–3 p.m.: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Sidewalk SymposiumTuesday, October 13

11–11:45 a.m.: State of the Research and Innovation Enterprise1–3 p.m.: Graduate Student Dialogue on Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship2–4 p.m.: Biomedical Engineering ShowcaseWednesday, October 14

1 p.m.–2:45 p.m.: Bison Back: Bringing Our Relatives Home10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.: Core Facilities Open House and Front Range Industry and Postdoc Symposium2:30–4:30 p.m.: Research to Impact: Funding and Industry Partnership StrategiesThursday, October 15

9–10 a.m.: Advancing Public Impact Research: Public Health, Life and Death, Politics and Bible VersesFriday, October 16

3–5 p.m.: ATLAS Research Open Labs

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Rather than a traditional academic lecture, this series is designed to feel like a conversation: thought provoking, accessible, and grounded in real world impact. Each month features researchers and practitioners sharing ideas that connect complex research to everyday life.

This Month's Featured Speakers:

Caitlin Charlet is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Environmental Design Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she guides the Material Library, leads the Biomodernity Lab and teaches architecture and sustainable urban design studios across all levels. Her research is situated at the experimental intersection of transformative design strategies, biogenic material systems and the environment. Ms. Charlet holds a Master of Architecture from the Parsons School of Constructed Environments, with a Sustainable Strategies Post-Graduate Certification, and a Master of Science in Design and Urban Ecology from the Parsons School of Design Strategies.Sara Tabatabaie received her PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder; her research has focused on the nexus between community health, design of the built environment and policies that shape human behaviors. She also holds her MA in urban planning and design from McGill University and her BS in civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Over the past decade, Sara has been working in the neighborhoods of Denver and Boulder on a variety of issues related to the built environment and health, including active mobility, urban greenness, sun safety and integrated ecology.Join us for an informal evening of discussion over drinks, where you can engage directly with the people doing meaningful sustainability work at CU Boulder and beyond. Whether you’re deeply immersed in sustainability research or simply curious, come spark a new connection!

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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This drive is open to the public. Feel free to invite family members and friends. Our goal is 19 units.

Brought to you by the INSTAAR PRAs

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Learn more about the panel discussions and film screening

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Maximize your effort by learning how to adapt your already-strong proposal for multiple fellowship opportunities. This session covers strategies for repurposing content with AI assistance—while avoiding overreliance. RIO’s Donna Axel will demonstrate ways AI can help identify reusable components for different funders…and points out places to be cautious. This session focuses on the ethical and practical limitations of AI in reusing, repurposing, and recycling proposals, with an emphasis on using AI as a tool for inspiration and efficiency—not as a substitute for your scholarly judgment. Register for one or both.

This session is offered at the following times:

With AIWednesday, October 14 at 10amWithout AITuesday, October 20 at 3pm

If you have any questions, please contact donna.axel@colorado.edu or rioconsult@colorado.edu.

Upon registration, users will receive an email confirmation and an Outlook Appointment invite with join instructions.

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Addressing Equity & Inclusion
Diversity, in many dimensions, offers both challenges and opportunities to any relationship. Learning to identify, reflect upon, learn from, and engage with diverse perspectives is essential to fostering effective mentoring relationships and vibrant intellectual environments.

Fostering Mental Health & Wellbeing
Students experience high rates of anxiety and depression that can result in strained mentor-mentee relationships, slowed degree progress, and other more serious outcomes. Mentors usually are not trained mental health professionals, though we do often have close professional relationships with mentees. Building a strong understanding of the boundaries of your responsibilities regarding mentee mental health is critical to positive experiences for both the mentor and mentee. Learn how to provide a professional and mentally healthy work environment.

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CU Boulder students and alumni from all majors, experience levels and backgrounds are welcome to attend this free event.

Check out our Career Fair HQ: Your Guide to Prep, Plan & Participate and sign up on Handshake!

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Title: Using AI as part of a water resources data analysis workshop - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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This all-level class allows participants to go at their own pace. Instructors can also provide cues and hands-on coaching as desired. Participants are welcome to borrow a mat or use their own. Registration is required for each class.

Dates: Aug. 26-Dec. 9Days: WednesdaysTime: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Location: Rec Center, Studio 3Fee: Free*Rec Center membership not required.

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This workshop focuses on reducing stress and anxiety and promoting overall wellbeing through acupuncture sessions. AcuDetox is a specific type of acupuncture, called auricular acupuncture, involving a five-point application of needles or ear seeds in the ear. These specific sites target various points throughout the body, leading to symptom reduction in anxiety, depression and substance use cravings, as well as can improve sleep, relaxation and concentration.

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Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the German Kaffeestunde, hosted by ALTEC and the Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures Department! We will meet at 12 - 1 p.m. on Wednesdays during the fall 2026 semester.

Contact: gsll@colorado.edu

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This series is open to all CU Boulder staff and faculty and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in accordance with state, federal, and Regent law. Register: https://cvent.me/W432YG

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Please join Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship for the Fall 2026 Lunch & Learn Series!

Connecting Learning Objectives and Assessment Design in Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning

Tues., Sept. 15 · CASE Building, Room E351 · Noon-1:30 p.m.

How can assessment meaningfully capture what students learn through community-engaged experiences? This session explores strategies for aligning student learning objectives with assessment design in community-engaged teaching and learning courses. Participants will examine ways to map both disciplinary knowledge and professional skills, leverage reflective practice as evidence of learning, and use assessment approaches that connect theory, practice and community engagement.

Featuring:

Karen Crouch, Instructional Design and Technology Consultant, Center for Teaching and Learning Amanda McAndrew, Center for Teaching and Learning Assistant Director – Teaching, Learning & Technology, Center for Teaching and Learning

From Seed to Success: How PACES Grants Turned into External Funding
Wed., Oct. 14 · CASE Building, Room E351 · Noon-1:30 p.m.

Building on last year’s successful series on resource development, CU Boulder peers will share how they used their PACES grant to seed their projects and secure external funding. The panel will be moderated by Meaghan Allyn, assistant director of foundation relations for CU Boulder’s Industry and Foundation Relations.

Featuring:

Joe Ryan, Professor, Environmental Engineering ProgramMichelle Renée Valladares, Associate Director, Community Research Collaborative with Cuba IndependentJohn Keller, Director, Fiske Planetarium Engaged Outreach

What is Public Impact Research and What Does Community Engagement Have to Do With It?

Tues., Nov. 10 · CASE Building, Room E351 · Noon-1:30 p.m.

Registration and speakers coming soon.

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Day: Tuesdays
Time: 1-2 p.m.
Location: The Center, C4C N320
Facilitators: Lucien Hawk (they/them)
Specific focus: Trans and gender diverse students

Day: Wednesdays
Time: 2-3 p.m.
Location: The Center, C4C N320
Facilitator: Ynigo Velayo (he/him)
Specific focus: BIPOC students

Note: Let’s Talk does not provide crisis services and is not a substitute for mental health treatment.

All students are welcome!

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Event Details

👥 For Researchers and Inventors at CU Boulder and Deep Tech Industry Representatives

🗓️ Oct. 14, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

📍 CU Boulder Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Community (SEEC) Building

🎟️ Register Now

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Meet outside the west entrance of Norlin Library.

Hosted by the CU Bike Program and open to CU students as well as community members.

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Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Japanese conversation table, hosted by ALTEC and the Asian Languages and Civilization Department! We will meet at 5 - 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month in Hellems N270 in the fall 2026 semester.

Contact: kiyomi.kawakami@colorado.edu

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Celebrate the end of a month-long journey of reflection, connection, and celebration featuring exciting entertainment, including the energy and excitement of Hugo's Lucha Libre, music to dance in community, and opportunities to connect with fellow Buffs. Come enjoy an evening full of alegría, tradición, and comunidad as we celebrate our shared stories, cultures, and the many identities that make our Latiné community unique.

¡Nos vemos en la Pachanga!

All student are welcome.

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All majors are welcome, law 1&2, MBA, and graduate students are encouraged to participate. Good governance takes all of us.

In person is encouraged, but zoom accomodations are available. Email the co-chairs at eboard@colorado.edu for details.

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The Making of a Japanese (2023)

< Documentary, in Japanese with English subtitle, 99 minutes >

Travelers to Japan are fascinated by the politeness of people, the cleanness of the streets, and the punctuality of the trains. But where do characteristics come from? This documentary takes us into a Japanese elementary school, following students through their daily lives and showing how some of these qualities may be cultivated through education from an early age. At the same time, the film offers a counterpoint to the positive reputation of Japan’s education system, revealing the struggles faced by both children and teachers.

Directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki

2026 News & Documentary Emmy

Wednesday October 14

6:00-8:00PM

at HUMN 1B80

For more information,

Contact at Kiyomi Kawakami:

kiyomi.kawakami@colorado.edu

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CU Boulder SoundWorks is a concert series-meets-forum for the creation and performance of new and original works by student composers, improvisers, performers and collaborators from the College of Music, as well as a space to celebrate works by living composers beyond the CU Boulder community. SoundWorks values a broad aesthetic range of sound-based art inclusive of all genres and manners of music making—from concert music to songwriting to electroacoustic to jazz and beyond. We strive to contribute to our broader communities, both local and national, through our art and conversations.

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CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Week is designed to elevate awareness across campus, build a sense of shared community, create opportunities for collaboration and recognize exceptional leadership and outcomes.

Join us as we:

Highlight and shape tomorrow's leadersShowcase some of our most compelling innovationsDemonstrate CU Boulder's positive impact on humanity
Schedule of Events

Monday, October 12

11 a.m.–1 p.m.: Indigenous Peoples' Day: Moderated Keynote and Luncheon10 a.m.–3 p.m.: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Sidewalk SymposiumTuesday, October 13

11–11:45 a.m.: State of the Research and Innovation Enterprise1–3 p.m.: Graduate Student Dialogue on Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship2–4 p.m.: Biomedical Engineering ShowcaseWednesday, October 14

1 p.m.–2:45 p.m.: Bison Back: Bringing Our Relatives Home10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.: Core Facilities Open House and Front Range Industry and Postdoc Symposium2:30–4:30 p.m.: Research to Impact: Funding and Industry Partnership StrategiesThursday, October 15

9–10 a.m.: Advancing Public Impact Research: Public Health, Life and Death, Politics and Bible VersesFriday, October 16

3–5 p.m.: ATLAS Research Open Labs

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Ready to innovate your large lecture with pedagogical strategies and technology tools that work? As well, you will have the opportunity to share ideas with your colleagues across campus, and engage with several offices across campus to find resources that support you and your well-being. Join us for this interactive one-day conference where you'll gain practical strategies for innovating your large lecture class.

This campus-wide conference brings together large-enrollment course educators and technology experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities that instructors and learners encounter. Through interactive faculty workshops, student panels, and well-being sessions, you'll learn innovative approaches, connect with colleagues, and transform your teaching practice to foster learner success. You'll leave with:

• Practical techniques for leveraging technology to support student learning

• Equity-minded teaching methods specifically designed for large-course environments

• Strategies for maintaining your wellness as an educator

• New connections with educators from diverse disciplines campuswide

Morning refreshments and a catered lunch will be provided each day. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 1, if you’d like to join us for lunch on one or both days. Participants are welcome to attend the full conference or drop in for specific sessions based on their interests and availability.

See full schedule on our webpage: https://www.colorado.edu/center/teaching-learning/programs-services/conferences-signature-events/fall-teaching-learning-and-technology-conference

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This workshop brings together our campus and the varied disciplines and scholars who do this work to build a shared language, community, and pathways toward successful Public Impact Research at CU Boulder, and beyond. A panel of incredible CU Boulder researchers already doing this work will ground the conversation in real examples: how they define impact, how they design for it, and what it took to get there.

Light refreshments will be provided.

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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Sign up for a Zoom-based info session to learn more about the program, connect with students and faculty, and dig into what you need to apply.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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Drop in to the Academic Coaching Study Hall to work quietly and independently on homework, exam prep, projects, or whatever you’ve been putting off. You don’t need an appointment, and you’re welcome to arrive late or leave early.

Work alongside other studentsGet a little extra structure and accountabilityAsk an Academic Coach questions or get support when you need itSnacks, fidgets, silent timers & intention sheets provided!

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This fair is ideal for students who have never attended a career fair, are looking to learn more about industries and employers who are hiring, are interested in practicing their networking skills and elevator pitch, want to learn about what skills recruiters are looking for, and are willing to walk away with more knowledge of where to roam next in their career journey.

You should attend this fair if:

You are seeking internships or part time or full-time positionsYou are a non-engineering student hoping to meet employers from non-engineering industries (but all majors are always welcome!)You have no professional experience (or think you don’t!) – Experience comes in all shapes and sizes. See how you can and already are building experience.You have no idea how your major turns into a job, internship or careerYou want to explore your options and meet employers who are excited to hire CU studentsYou are excited to discover different pathways for where you can roam!

CU Boulder students and alumni from all majors, experience levels and backgrounds are welcome to attend this free event.

Check out our Career Fair HQ: Your Guide to Prep, Plan & Participate and sign up on Handshake!

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Modeling the Opioid Epidemic in Space and Time

I will give an overview of several papers about statistical and mathematical models for drug overdose, and how they can be used to save lives. I will first explain the basics of time series analysis and how time series models can create an “early warning system,” using law-enforcement drug seizure data to predict changes in overdose deaths. I will then turn to the spatial structure of the epidemic, viewing it as a spatiotemporal dynamical system and trying to predict local spikes. I will explain traditional statistical tools for this problem, and where those tools fall short. To remedy that, I will introduce some ideas from topological data analysis, including Mapper, persistent homology, and vineyards. In recent joint work with Nick Bermingham and Nathan Willey, we use vineyards to follow persistent features through time and to forecast future changes in the geography of overdose mortality. Along the way I will emphasize connections with familiar ideas from statistical modeling, time series, spatial statistics, and dynamical systems, and I will provide several open problems and a road map to a collection of freely available and underutilized datasets where even relatively simple analyses would be impactful. The talk assumes only a basic knowledge of statistics and no previous knowledge of topological data analysis. Students are welcome.

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Join the MS in data science team to learn what makes the CS → data science BAM pathway distinct. We’ll look at the interdisciplinary MS-DS curriculum, which brings together computer science, statistics, machine learning and other areas of data science, and talk about the kinds of interests and goals that may lead a CS student to consider data science.

You’ll also learn how the BAM pathway works, how graduate coursework can fit into your undergraduate degree, and the potential time and tuition savings of starting the MS-DS while completing your CS degree.

Come with questions — including whether data science is actually the right fit for you. Lunch will be provided, and slides will be shared after the session.

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This group is open to all CU Boulder staff and faculty and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in accordance with state, federal, and Regent law. Register: https://cvent.me/vmyWEe

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Led by Ashley Cartun, Ph.D.

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Consultations are open to all – from undergrad to faculty – and are offered every Tuesday (in-person, virtual) and Thursday (virtual only). Please register to ensure we have the best people available to assist you, and to receive the Zoom link (virtual consults only).

If you are unable to attend our regular hours and would like to set up a one-on-one consultation, or have additional questions, please contact us through our support request form.

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Join fellow instructors to discuss challenges and opportunities in large course teaching, exchange practical resources and strategies, and learn from colleagues across disciplines. LCCoP meetings also provide space to explore evidence based teaching practices and contribute ideas and resources to a shared Canvas community.

Whether you’re looking for new approaches to your large course or simply want to connect with colleagues facing similar challenges, all instructors of large enrollment courses are welcome.

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This event is open to all CU Boulder students and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in accordance with state, federal and Regent law.

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About the Lecture

How will artificial intelligence reshape higher education? How should students, faculty, administrators, and policymakers respond to the transformative effects of large language models that sometimes appear to write, talk, and maybe even think like humans? In this lecture, one of America’s foremost commentators on AI and higher education, Hollis Robbins, addresses the challenges and opportunities facing universities in the twenty-first century.

About the Speaker

Hollis Robbins is a Professor of English at the University of Utah, where she was previously the Dean of the College of Humanities. She was Dean of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University from 2018 to 2022. She is a specialist in American and African American literature and, for two decades, has served as the Co-Director/Managing Editor of Harvard University’s Black Periodical Literature Project. She received her BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MPP from Harvard University, an MA from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a PhD from Princeton University. She writes the newsletter Anecdotal Value.

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For more than 30 years, scientists at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) have been measuring greenhouse gases and their isotopes — helping to build an exceptionally precise, long-term record of our changing atmosphere. These measurements enable researchers to trace where carbon dioxide and methane come from, where they go, and how the global carbon cycle is changing. Today, INSTAAR’s data support dozens of research projects around the world and help form the basis of intergovernmental reports and policies.

Join INSTAAR on the evening of October 15 for a behind-the-scenes look at this work. Learn how and why INSTAAR scientists measure greenhouse gases, meet the researchers behind the science, and tour our Radiocarbon (C-14) Lab and Stable Isotope Lab (SIL).

5:00 pm — Refreshments and poster showcase about INSTAAR's labs (not just C-14 & SIL).
6:00 pm — Greenhouse gas research at INSTAAR, with Sylvia Michel.
6:20 pm — Q&A panel with Sylvia Michel, Scott Lehman, and Pieter Tans.
6:40 pm — Guided tours of the Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon labs, with posters and refreshments continuing.

Speakers and panelists

Sylvia Michel leads the INSTAAR Stable Isotope Lab team that measures stable isotopes of carbon dioxide and methane from the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network.

Scott Lehman is the Emeritus Director of INSTAAR’s Laboratory for AMS Radiocarbon Preparation and Research.

Pieter Tans led the NOAA Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group from 1985 until 2019, and is now a Fellow Emeritus of INSTAAR.

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Talks are available on Zoom, but not tours. Tickets are not needed for Zoom attendees.

Learn more about the work of Lehman and Tans in a recent INSTAAR news story:
A Q&A with the scientists who built a decades-long record of Earth’s atmosphere

The evening is a part of INSTAAR's 75th anniversary event series.

Paid parking only

The SEEC building is located at 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303. Use the front entrance, shown as a red star on the above map.

You can park in visitor lots 550 or 544. Both have hourly rates that can be paid using the ParkMobile app on your phone or with your credit card at an adjacent pay station. Rates are about $2 per hour until 7 pm and $1 per hour after. For the fastest parking, consider downloading the ParkMobile app at home before the event and launching it upon arrival.

Lot 550 is the closest parking and located on the southwest side of SEEC. If using ParkMobile, the lot should show as zone 63550. Once parked, walk about 2 minutes to get to the front entrance of the SEEC building.

If Lot 550 is full, go to Lot 544 on the south side of the Space Science Building (3665 Discovery Drive). If using ParkMobile, the lot should show as zone 63541. Once parked, walk about 6 minutes to get to the front entrance of the SEEC building.

Make sure you pay for enough time to cover the full event, which runs from 5:00 pm to approximately 8:00 or 8:30 pm, including the posters, talk, Q&A, and lab tours. If you used the ParkMobile app initially, you can later extend your parking time without needing to return to your car. Lots 550 and 544 are enforced 24 hours a day by CU Boulder Parking Services.

ADA-accessible spaces are available in the circle directly in front of the SEEC building as well as in Lot 550.

For quick drop-offs, use the circle near the front entrance of the SEEC building. If necessary, there are a few free 15-minute only spaces there that might be available.

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Photo in the background: Rachel Edie changes gas flasks on an INSTAAR mass spectrometer that measures stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen in atmospheric CO2, primarily from the NOAA CMDL Cooperative Air Sampling Network. (Ethan Welty)

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Russian Tea Conversation Hour
Thursdays, 5 - 6 p.m.

Hellems N250

Open to all CU Boulder students, faculty, and staff
All levels are welcome

Welcome to Russian Tea! At this one-hour long conversation hour, participants will practice speaking Russian in an informal setting – tea and cookies will be served.

For more information, contact jillian.costello@colorado.edu.

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with Cheyenne Poet & Educator Dr. Richard E. Littlebear

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Arabic-English Culture Club
Location: The International English Center
Dates: Tuesdays Sept 8, Sept 29, Oct 20, Nov 10
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm Come hike, play, laugh, and exchange cultures through language.

اCoffee and a Word
Location: HLMS N253
Dates: Thursdays Sept 24 & Nov 5
Time: 1-2 pm Discover beautiful Arabic words that carry
emotions, relationships, and cultural meanings that English can't quite capture.

ARABIC MOVIE NIGHT
Location: KTCH 1B60
Date: Thursday Oct 15
Time: 5:30 pm

ARABIC BOOK CLUB
Location: Lafayette Public Library
Date: 4th Wed of the month
Time: 6-8 pm

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Set from the summer for 1967 through the 1980's the movie follows Ahmed, an aspiring middle-class Cairo pianist who starts a long-distnce pen-pal friendship with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth or "Liz".

Structured across five interconnected episodes, the narative tracks Ahmed's musical dreams alongside major political and social turning points in Egypt's modern history - including the 1967 war, the 1977 bread riots, and the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat.

We be serving Tea and Baklava as well!

Oct. 15th. KTCH 1B60 5:30-8PM

See you all there!

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Special note: Footage of this film was featured in The New York Times in April 2024 - A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong. Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the fate of the universe.

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This event will be livestreamed by CU Boulder: https://cupresents.org/cu-boulder-college-of-music-Livestream/

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Thursdays 7:30PM-8:30PM(Oct. 1 / 8 / 15/ 22)

Thursdays 6:30PM-7:30PM (Nov. 5 / 12 / 19, Dec. 3)

All Japanese language learners who are currently taking or have previously taken JPNS2110 or a higher-level course in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations are invited!

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CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Week is designed to elevate awareness across campus, build a sense of shared community, create opportunities for collaboration and recognize exceptional leadership and outcomes.

Join us as we:

Highlight and shape tomorrow's leadersShowcase some of our most compelling innovationsDemonstrate CU Boulder's positive impact on humanity
Schedule of Events

Monday, October 12

11 a.m.–1 p.m.: Indigenous Peoples' Day: Moderated Keynote and Luncheon10 a.m.–3 p.m.: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Sidewalk SymposiumTuesday, October 13

11–11:45 a.m.: State of the Research and Innovation Enterprise1–3 p.m.: Graduate Student Dialogue on Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship2–4 p.m.: Biomedical Engineering ShowcaseWednesday, October 14

1 p.m.–2:45 p.m.: Bison Back: Bringing Our Relatives Home10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.: Core Facilities Open House and Front Range Industry and Postdoc Symposium2:30–4:30 p.m.: Research to Impact: Funding and Industry Partnership StrategiesThursday, October 15

9–10 a.m.: Advancing Public Impact Research: Public Health, Life and Death, Politics and Bible VersesFriday, October 16

3–5 p.m.: ATLAS Research Open Labs

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
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Abstract: The world around us is constantly changing in ways that shape the decisions we make, but how do we learn the latent structure of our environment and use it to guide our choices? In this talk, I will present recent evidence showing how humans use latent contextual features to modulate decision-making behavior. Compared with Bayesian inference, human strategies produce systematic biases that are better explained by heuristics favoring information generalization. Using recurrent neural network (RNN) models trained on these behavioral strategies, I will show how neural representations can adapt to learn latent structure. Finally, I will discuss how RNNs, human behavior, and intracranial EEG recordings together can inform our understanding of latent feature inference.

Bio: Tahra Eissa, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. Her lab focuses on how we learn latent features of the world, how these shape our cognitive strategies, and what happens to these processes in psychiatric disorders. She completed her postdoc at CU Boulder with Dr. Zachary Kilpatrick and her PhD at the University of Chicago.

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Registration is required if attending virtually.

All sessions begin promptly at 12:15 p.m. Please arrive a few minutes early if attending in person - doors to the meditation close at 12:15 p.m.

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Who should attend

Faculty, research administrators, project managers, program leads, and research team members working on or supporting research and sponsored projects and programs.

Office hours are a space to:

Ask questions about research or sponsored project/program managementSanity‑check ideas or approachesTalk through active or upcoming project scenarios for feedbackDiscuss risk, planning, governance or execution challengesExplore program or project management career paths within the research ecosystem
Participants may join the main session for general discussion, and PMO staff may also be available for short breakout conversations during office hours when a topic is more sensitive or would benefit from a smaller, private setting.

You do not need a fully formed problem or agenda—participants are welcome to drop in for brief questions or longer discussions as needed. View dial-in instructions below.

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Friday, October 16, 2026 1 - 2:30 p.m.Norlin Library, Center for British and Irish Studies Room (CBIS)If you require accommodations, including ASL or captions, please contact the ADA Coordinator at ADACoordinator@Colorado.EDU or Ph. 303-492-9725. Two weeks advance notice of need for accommodations is requested.

Questions? Please reach out to OFAFDS@Colorado.EDU

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On Sept. 25, Oct. 9 and 16, Graduate student Colleen Ahern will guide us through collective tarot readings and deck creation, while emphasizing tarot's LGBTQ+ history.

All students are welcome.

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Enjoy activities and resources including:

No cost Flu shots for students

Free resources and swag

Self-care activities

Arts and crafts

Fitness challenges

Chair massage

Games

Take care of yourself. Take care of each other. Thrive Like A Buff.

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The 8th annual ATLAS Institute Research Open Labs is your time to get a first-hand view of the radically creative engineering and design projects our lab teams are engaged in!

Get to know our lab directors, mingle with researchers and try out advanced technologies across many disciplines.

Interested in the Creative Technology & Design PhD program? This is a great way to get a sense for life in the lab and interact with our community.

ATLAS Research Open Labs is part of Research & Innovation Week, a celebration and showcase of research, scholarship and creative works at CU Boulder.

At Open Labs you can:

Tour ATLAS labs and studiosEngage with our research communityGo hands-on with demos and interactive technologyExplore novel ideas and radical creativityCheck out research on:

Human-computer interactionNeuroscienceFabricationWoven formsBiomaterialsNanoscienceExperimental typographyVR/ARDesign, art and more...

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Habitat or landscape fragmentation is a major challenge for biodiversity conservation, yet current understandings focus primarily on its ecological dimensions, overlooking the fact that fragmentation is equally political. Drawing on Blackfoot-led efforts to reintroduce buffalo – or iinnii – to Blackfoot lands, we show how fragmentation and subsequent efforts to rebuild connectivity are both ecological and political, and indeed these are intertwined. We show, first, how colonial settlement was a fragmenting project that intentionally splintered vast buffalo habitat and Tribal territory into a complex mosaic of land uses – from ranches and national parks to internally subdivided reservations – to serve colonial interests. Contemporary efforts to welcome iinnii home counter this history by employing innovative strategies, including tapping into land buyback programs and partnering with national parks, to rebuild continuous buffalo habitat. This creates expansive habitat while simultaneously enabling the Blackfeet to rebuild reciprocal relations with iinnii and restore sovereignty and decision-making capacity over a more coherent land base. Writing together as a team of Blackfoot and non-Tribal scholars and experts, we bridge conservation biology and political ecology to build a richer understanding of fragmentation and connectivity as jointly political and ecological. We show how Tribal activism advances scholarly debate by underscoring the profound impacts of fragmentation, how fragmentation was a tool of colonial settlement, the broad importance of connectivity, and that achieving conservation and connectivity goals require attending to both ecological and political factors. This article, moreover, celebrates the work of Tribal Nations as they rewrite histories of land loss and fragmentation.

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Standard bowling rates apply.

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Open houses are only held when the skies are clear. If you're not sure if we'll be open, check out our local weather, check our facebook or instagram an hour before scheduled time, or call us, on Friday night 15 minutes before scheduled time, for an observing status at 303-492-2020.

There is no charge for the Observatory's Open House nights ... the stars are free to everyone! Sessions typically last from 1-2 hours, depending upon the weather and the quality of the night.

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From pre-game festivities outside the stadium featuring local vendors, community partners, and Latiné-inspired activities, to a special halftime performance by the CU Marching Band highlighting beloved Latiné music, this celebration will showcase the diversity, joy, and orgullo of the Latiné diaspora. Fans will also enjoy a special sideline performance by ArtistiCO bringing the energy and traditions of Latin American dance to Folsom Field.

Come together with the CU community to celebrate Latiné Heritage Month, cheer on the Buffs, and honor the cultures, histories, and stories that make our community stronger.

¡Vamos Buffs!

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For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
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Many people associate fall in the mountains with changing aspens and the associated leaf peepers, but there are many other fascinating changes occurring throughout the natural world. Mammals like snowshoe hare and ermine are changing their coat color from the summery brown to a wintery white. Some resident bird species, like mountain and black-capped chickadees or Clark's nutcracker are busy caching 80,00-100,000 seeds to survive the coming summer.

The walk starts at 10:00 am and will last for about 2 hours. We only have space for 20 people. Sign up is required to reserve your spot. Additional details will be emailed to attendees one week prior to the walk.

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General Info

The Mountain Research Station is located approximately 26 miles west of Boulder, Colorado, off the Peak to Peak Highway (highway 72), about 7 miles north of Nederland and 5 miles south of Ward. The drive from Boulder takes about 45 minutes.

At an elevation of 9,500 ft (2900 m), the weather can be very variable and change rapidly. Be prepared for sun, cold, rain, snow, and wind.

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NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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We'll visit ancient Greece and find patterns in the Forge of Artemis; measure time with the Diné, or Navajo people to seek the Thunderbird; explore 18th-century India in Jai Singh’s Dream; journey with First People of what is now northern Canada in a Celestial Canoe; visit Japan to find the patterns of the Samurai and Stars; and venture out into the ocean with Hawaiian navigator in Wayfinders.

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

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Are you tired of the boring, repetitive nature of professional development workshops? Do you want to be challenged, add performance and communication skills to your CV, and belong to a community of brilliant, like-minded academics? This semester, Grad+ Mastery will focus on purpose. Is purpose something we find, or something we build? Human behavior research frames purpose as a dynamic person-environment process that emerges through our interaction with the world around us. This perspective not only allows but requires active engagement in the formation and execution of purpose.

We struggle to articulate why we do what we do, think what we think, and want what we want, yet we still expect to feel motivated, take action, and maintain focus. Purpose is now widely recognized as essential to human well-being, with a strong association between perceived meaningfulness and a host of improved psychological benefits. You are the most important project you will ever take on. Invest in your success and join Grad+ Mastery today.

If you have already participated in Grad+ Seminar Series (both Fundamentals and Special Topics), then sign up for Grad+ Mastery to take it to the next level.

Outcomes

Learn how action helps us refine purpose through meaningful experiencesCreate opportunities to explore and strengthen purpose“Read” your behaviors for purpose alignmentCultivate confidence through deliberate practiceInvest time, rather than “spend” it, for a high purpose ROIDiscover ways to incorporate purpose research into your teaching and training

All graduate students welcome!

Register by Sept. 3, 2026. Contact Hailey.Herman@colorado.edu with any questions.

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Katherine Lininger

Associate Professor, CU Boulder, Geography

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INSTAAR Seminar Series

All seminars are hybrid events, in person and via Zoom.

Audience: All are welcome

Location: Online and in SEEC S228. 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO.

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Drop in to the Academic Coaching Study Hall to work quietly and independently on homework, exam prep, projects, or whatever you’ve been putting off. You don’t need an appointment, and you’re welcome to arrive late or leave early.

Work alongside other studentsGet a little extra structure and accountabilityAsk an Academic Coach questions or get support when you need itSnacks, fidgets, silent timers & intention sheets provided!

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This seminar is designed for undergraduate students, especially if you're interested in getting involved with undergraduate research or considering grad school. We want to foster meaningful interactions with faculty and introduce you to the rich and fascinating world of computer science beyond the classroom. Talks will be given by leading researchers and educators from the computer science faculty.

Join us for our faculty presentation, and plenty of time for Q&A!

More information to come about this upcoming session featuring Prof. Bobby Schnabel!

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Join Palestinian American writer, publisher and musician Michel S. Moushabeck for an evening exploring the role of intellectuals, artists and publishers at a time when freedom of speech is increasingly under threat.

Moushabeck continues Educating the Whole Human, a University Libraries series featuring accomplished scholars whose acclaimed work, shaped by lived experience, expands how knowledge is created and understood

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Whether you're a devoted concertgoer or simply curious about new music, this program offers an inviting and memorable introduction to some of today's most exciting composers!

For complete information visit cupresents.org

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All students are welcome!

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Dates: Aug. 25-Dec. 8Days: TuesdaysTime: 7:30-8:30 a.m.Location: Rec Center, Studio 1Fee: Free

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Main Campus: CASE, Room W344*East Campus: SEEC, Room S225

*For Oct. 13 only, the Main Campus write-in will conclude at 11 a.m. due to a room conflict

Time to show up and write! Do you need a dedicated space to help you focus on your academic writing? Sign up to attend our weekly write-in sessions.

Research on academic writing suggests that making writing a regular, scheduled practice—rather than relying on occasional marathon writing sessions—can help writers make steady progress and increase productivity. Weekly writing groups that provide protected writing time can also foster accountability, camaraderie, and a stronger sense of research community.

The goal of these sessions is to help you put that research into practice by devoting a few focused hours to your writing each week. You’ll have dedicated time and space to build a sustainable writing habit, work independently alongside fellow graduate students, and track your progress regularly.

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Session 1: Mindful Awareness for Focus and Attention: What does it mean to be mindful? Learn to train the mind through focus and improve your attention without judgment.

Session 2: Mindfulness of Breathing: The mind wanders naturally. Learn to use the breath as an anchor for the wandering mind.

Session 3: Understanding the Brain and Stress Response: Learn the science behind our stress response and how to calm and reset when feeling stressed and activated.

Session 4: Noticing our Thoughts and Emotions: When we learn mindful practices to notice our passing, fleeting thoughts and emotions, we can better meet the moment as it is, without judgment, resulting in less stress and a greater sense of peace.

Session 5: Noticing Body Sensations: Release Tension for Reduced Stress: Why is it important to notice sensations in the body and how can that help release tension and stress?

Session 6: Hardwiring our Brain for Positivity and Well-being: Noticing generosity, choosing gratitude and the power of kind thoughts are mental medicine for our overall wellbeing. When we intentionally focus on positivity, we strengthen our neural pathways for greater wellbeing.

Session 7: Mindful Behavior vs Autopilot Behavior: What is autopilot behavior and why is it problematic? How can mindful behavior help improve our relationships at home and work?

Session 8: Mindful Self-Compassion: Discover practices to cultivate kindness and understanding towards ourselves, especially in times of stress. This powerful practice of befriending ourselves reduces stress and increases compassion.

All sessions are led by Kim Stephens.

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The Communications Committee meets the 3rd Tuesday of every month, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

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Park at Parking lot 543
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Pre-register: For planning purposes, participants are asked to register in advance using the link below.

Map & Parking: Please allow 10 minutes to park and walk from Euclid Parking Garage. There are also 2- and 4-hour metered spaces on the University Hill, west of Broadway.

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Blood Drive & Community Service committee meets the third Tuesday of every month fromn 10:00a - 11:00a.

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This fall, our Grad+ Special Topics seminar draws on behavioral science to explore how graduate students can develop, define, and leverage identity to build confidence and resilience. If you want to increase motivation and decrease stress, join us as we reimagine what success looks like, sharpen focus, and kick procrastination to the curb.

Identity is built through the personal, autobiographical narratives we construct and communicate, both internally and externally. Confidence in who you are, and clarity about your identity, are critical to resilience. Don’t miss this opportunity to build self-awareness, apply behavioral strategies grounded in research, and connect with fellow scholars across the CU Boulder community.

We recommend you participate in a year of Grad+ Fundamentals before advancing to Grad+ Special Topics series.

Outcomes

Clarify your sense of self to strengthen identity and self-imageExplore how values, beliefs, and experiences integrate into a cohesive self-conceptPersonalize research-backed, behavior-based strategies to support your growth and developmentUnderstand how cultural norms, family context, and personal experience shape identityLearn how identity can address patterns of avoidance and inactionUse identity to improve prioritization and reduce procrastination

All graduate students welcome!

Register by Sept. 3, 2026. Contact Hailey.Herman@colorado.edu with any questions.

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Join us to learn more about the campus accounting unit and understand the financial reviews they complete each month. We’ll walk you through our trial balance reports and share tips to help you prevent issues.

More about CCO's Financial Foundations - Monthly Sessions: Connect, Learn & Master Financial Compliance!

We recognize your dedication to accurate and compliant financial practices within your unit. Our monthly Financial Foundations sessions are designed to empower you with the knowledge and connections you need to excel.

Here's how you'll benefit:

🎯 Gain Clarity: Each session focuses on a specific financial topic, making complex information digestible.
🗣️ Get Answers: Participate in open discussions with subject matter experts and get your questions answered directly.
🌐 Expand Your Network: Connect with other financial representatives, share best practices, and build a supportive community.

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Where to search onlineHow to lean on your own networkAttending fairs and virtual recruiting eventsAlternative ways to connect with employersGetting application materials readyHow to interviewAny other questions on your mind

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Passcode for this talk is math-geo

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In this workshop, we will review the following topics:

What are the SEVIS OPT reporting requirements and why compliance is importantHow to comply with the SEVIS OPT reporting requirements What kind of employment is allowed while on OPTTravel while on OPTThe OPT STEM Extension, cap-gap, and how OPT intersects with the H-1B processAt the end of the workshop, we will also allow time for students to ask any questions they may have.

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*This workshop was previously publicized as Review and Support of Sabbatical Applications – Academic Leaders Institute Workshop. It has been retitled and expanded due to the cancellation of the Sep. 29 faculty workshop Preparing Your Sabbatical Application.

Please note: These sessions are not recorded to create a comfortable environment for open, candid discussions and engagement.

If you have a disability and require accommodations, including ASL or captions, please contact the ADA Coordinator at ADACoordinator@Colorado.EDU or 303-492-9725. Two weeks advance notice of need for accommodations is requested.

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Arabic - English Culture Club!

Please join us for hikes, coffee/ tea culture, karaoke & snacks, and a party!

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Arabic-English Culture Club
Location: The International English Center
Dates: Tuesdays Sept 8, Sept 29, Oct 20, Nov 10
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm Come hike, play, laugh, and exchange cultures through language.

اCoffee and a Word
Location: HLMS N253
Dates: Thursdays Sept 24 & Nov 5
Time: 1-2 pm Discover beautiful Arabic words that carry
emotions, relationships, and cultural meanings that English can't quite capture.

ARABIC MOVIE NIGHT
Location: KTCH 1B60
Date: Thursday Oct 15
Time: 5:30 pm

ARABIC BOOK CLUB
Location: Lafayette Public Library
Date: 4th Wed of the month
Time: 6-8 pm

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All students are welcome!

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Consultations are open to all – from undergrad to faculty – and are offered every Tuesday (in-person, virtual) and Thursday (virtual only). Please register to ensure we have the best people available to assist you, and to receive the Zoom link (virtual consults only).

If you are unable to attend our regular hours and would like to set up a one-on-one consultation, or have additional questions, please contact us through our support request form.

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Day: Tuesdays
Time: 1-2 p.m.
Location: The Center, C4C N320
Facilitators: Lucien Hawk (they/them)
Specific focus: Trans and gender diverse students

Day: Wednesdays
Time: 2-3 p.m.
Location: The Center, C4C N320
Facilitator: Ynigo Velayo (he/him)
Specific focus: BIPOC students

Note: Let’s Talk does not provide crisis services and is not a substitute for mental health treatment.

All students are welcome!

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This event is open to all CU Boulder students and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in accordance with state, federal and Regent law.

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Abstract
Small, supported nanoparticles (NPs) with 1-5 nm diameter play an important role in catalysis and tuning metal nanoparticle-support interactions is a fundamental method to control catalytic reactions. Experimental techniques provide limited insights into how interactions with the support change the structure of nanoparticles whereas density functional theory calculations suffer from system size constraints and rely on idealized constructions. I will show in this presentation that the simulation of supported nanoparticles is possible in quantitative agreement with benchmark microcalorimetric measurements for adhesion, chemical potential, and heat of adsorption. Analysis of coordination number, strain, and crystallinity in optimized Ag nanoparticles supported on graphene/Ni(111) and MgO(100) revealed surface features inconsistent with previously assumed idealized models. Our results demonstrated that the widely used Wulff construction is not satisfactory structural models of supported Ag nanoparticles. The approach developed here based on machine learning interatomic potentials opens up an avenue to achieve modeler’s dreams of simulating industrially relevant supported nanoparticles directly under catalytic conditions.

Biosketch
Prof. Tibor Szilvási studied chemical engineering, chemistry, and physics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, where he completed his PhD degree in 2016. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with Prof. Manos Mavrikakis he joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of Alabama (UA) as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2020 and got promoted to Associate Professor in 2026. Prof. Szilvási’s research group focuses on computational catalysis and materials design. Prof. Szilvási has published over 140 peer-reviewed publications. His research group is funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Education, Department of Defense, the Krell Institute, and NVIDIA. He obtained NSF CAREER Award and UA President’s Faculty Research Award for his research accomplishments and the UA-AIChE Outstanding Faculty Member Award from the undergraduate students of his Department for teaching excellence. Most recently, Tibor was announced as the 2026 recipient of the Early Career in Catalysis Award of the Catalysis Science & Technology division of the American Chemical Society.

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Maximize your effort by learning how to adapt your already-strong proposal for multiple fellowship opportunities. This session covers strategies for repurposing content with AI assistance—while avoiding overreliance. RIO’s Donna Axel will demonstrate ways AI can help identify reusable components for different funders…and points out places to be cautious. This session focuses on the ethical and practical limitations of AI in reusing, repurposing, and recycling proposals, with an emphasis on using AI as a tool for inspiration and efficiency—not as a substitute for your scholarly judgment. Register for one or both.

This session is offered at the following times:

With AIWednesday, October 14 at 10amWithout AITuesday, October 20 at 3pm

If you have any questions, please contact donna.axel@colorado.edu or rioconsult@colorado.edu.

Upon registration, users will receive an email confirmation and an Outlook Appointment invite with join instructions.

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Join veteran NBC News senior correspondent and CU alumnus Tom Costello (Jour’87), Colorado Public Radio reporter/host Bazi Kanani and film director Brian Malone for a post-screening discussion.

Free pizza!

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Each session will consist of:

5-10 minute guided meditation that includes poetry and/or a writing prompt with suggestions

10 minutes of free writing

10 minutes to share (optional)

Led by Kerry Love.

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Following the film, participants are invited to join a guided discussion and enjoy Puerto Rican empanadas.

All students are welcome.

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Professor Stephanie Bryant will deliver the October talk:

Engineering a Cure for Osteoarthritis. She will discuss her team's Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) funded NITRO project, which is developing injectable therapies to eradicate osteoarthritis, a debilitating disease that affects 32 million Americans. Through a lot of hard work, many hours, and a stellar team, they have demonstrated that they can reverse osteoarthritis and regrow cartilage in the lab. They are now moving towards FDA-required studies to prove their therapies are safe prior to moving into first-in-human clinical trails.

Come learn what tissue engineers, biologists, and clinicians are developing to cure osteoarthritis!

Talk + Q&A for the first hour, then a free reception to facilitate informal discussion.

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Co-presented by the CU Museum and Contemplative Arts, Learning and Meditation (CALM) Center at CU Boulder.

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All students are welcome!

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
NW Stairwell, 2nd floor

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Massimo Ruzzene, Senior Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Dean of the Institutes, will be hosting a Zoom Town Hall event on Wednesday, October 21 at 9:30 a.m. to share the latest information about the federal outlook and to learn from our faculty and researchers about your concerns, ideas and opportunities.

When you register, we invite you to submit questions or topics you’d like addressed during the town hall.

Upon completing the registration form, users will receive an email confirmation and a calendar invite with join instructions.

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In this interactive workshop, you’ll create your own Mentor Map to identify the people and resources already in your support network, recognize where you may want additional support, and develop practical strategies for building connections that support your academic, professional, and personal growth.

You’ll leave with a personalized map of your network and at least one concrete next step for strengthening it.

Space is limited, register early to save your spot!

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Fostering Professional Development
A goal of most mentoring situations is to enable the mentee to identify and achieve both academic and professional outcomes. Though learning to do disciplinary research, entrepreneurship, or creative artistry is an important academic outcome in mentoring relationships, there are many other outcomes that will influence a mentee’s future career. Mentors should consciously consider and support their mentees to achieve these other outcomes as well.

Mentoring Capstone: Building Your Mentoring Philosophy
Reflecting upon your mentoring relationships is a vital part of becoming a more effective mentor. This is especially important following mentor training so that you can consider how to implement changes in your mentoring practice based on the training. Reflection on your mentoring practice at regular intervals is strongly encouraged.

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See what the Costume Department is working on and what it takes to make thousands of costumes a yearHear from the College of Music Wellness Team about the connection between Music and everyday wellness for allLearn how to use your staff/faculty discounts from CU Presents And finally, get a Sneak Peak performance of the upcoming musical, Sweeney Todd in a special lunch time concert featuring songs and stories about the show! (this portion is optional, you are welcome to attend only the tour and not the performance)This is an in-person event and spots are limited, please register on Cvent!

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This all-level class allows participants to go at their own pace. Instructors can also provide cues and hands-on coaching as desired. Participants are welcome to borrow a mat or use their own. Registration is required for each class.

Dates: Aug. 26-Dec. 9Days: WednesdaysTime: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Location: Rec Center, Studio 3Fee: Free*Rec Center membership not required.

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Throughout the semester, CU Boulder faculty whose work intersects with public health will share their research and insights in an informal lunchtime setting designed to foster learning and connection.

Please join us:

📅 When: Wednesday, October 21st from 11:30am -12:45pm

📍Where: Muenzinger D428 and D430

Title: Assesing Population-level pesticide exposures in Ecuador

By: Dr. Federico Andrade Rivas, Assistant Professor in Geography

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This workshop focuses on reducing stress and anxiety and promoting overall wellbeing through acupuncture sessions. AcuDetox is a specific type of acupuncture, called auricular acupuncture, involving a five-point application of needles or ear seeds in the ear. These specific sites target various points throughout the body, leading to symptom reduction in anxiety, depression and substance use cravings, as well as can improve sleep, relaxation and concentration.

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Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the German Kaffeestunde, hosted by ALTEC and the Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures Department! We will meet at 12 - 1 p.m. on Wednesdays during the fall 2026 semester.

Contact: gsll@colorado.edu

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This series is open to all CU Boulder staff and faculty and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in accordance with state, federal, and Regent law. Register: https://cvent.me/W432YG

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Introducing you to the campus and city;Introducing you to career planning techniques and how to create your Individual Development Plan (IDP); andIntroducing you to important on-campus resources, including Human Resources, Faculty Relations, Career Services, and the Postdoctoral Association of Colorado (PAC) Boulder.
Speakers

Ryan Reeves, Program Manager; Karen Regan, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of Postdoctoral AffairsRepresentatives from the Postdoctoral Association of Colorado BoulderBurke Hilsabeck (Assistant Director of Faculty Relations, Office of Faculty Affairs)Stanley Ly, (Director, Faculty Staff Assistance Program)Sandra Rosewell (Career Development Advisor, Career Services)Mary Allen (Coordinator, Responsible Conduct of Research)

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For complete information visit cupresents.org

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Please register using your Identikey@colorado.edu.

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Academic Host: TBD

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Spaces are first-come, first-served. Space is limited.

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Day: Tuesdays
Time: 1-2 p.m.
Location: The Center, C4C N320
Facilitators: Lucien Hawk (they/them)
Specific focus: Trans and gender diverse students

Day: Wednesdays
Time: 2-3 p.m.
Location: The Center, C4C N320
Facilitator: Ynigo Velayo (he/him)
Specific focus: BIPOC students

Note: Let’s Talk does not provide crisis services and is not a substitute for mental health treatment.

All students are welcome!

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Host: Tobin Munsat

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Meet outside the west entrance of Norlin Library.

Hosted by the CU Bike Program and open to CU students as well as community members.

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All majors are welcome, law 1&2, MBA, and graduate students are encouraged to participate. Good governance takes all of us.

In person is encouraged, but zoom accomodations are available. Email the co-chairs at eboard@colorado.edu for details.

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Wednesday, Oct. 21
6–7:30 p.m.: Lecture: Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom
7:30–8:30 p.m. - Reception for all registered attendees

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required to attend and/or receive the livestream link.In person and Virtual (Zoom) attendance available.There will be a reception following the lecture. Details will be sent to registered participants prior to the event. Colorado CLE credits pending for this event.

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The Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture in Natural Resources

In 2018, the GWC received a generous gift from the Wright Family Foundation to establish the Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture in Natural Resources in honor of her inspiring legacy as a leader in western natural resources, land conservation, and environmental policy and advocacy. With this support, we look forward to bringing this free event to our community for years to come.

As a legislator, environmentalist, and historian, Ruth Wright dedicated her career to environmental issues and activism. While a student at Colorado Law, she led efforts to preserve Boulder’s open space and limit the height of buildings in Boulder to 55 feet to protect enjoyment of the unique landscape for the ages. In 1980, she was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives, where she represented Boulder until 1994. She was also the second woman ever to become the House minority leader, a role she held from 1986 until 1992. While serving in the House of Representatives, Wright continued to be a strategic champion for the environment, and has been recognized by such groups as the Colorado Wildlife Foundation, the ACLU, the Sierra Club, and Colorado Open Lands.

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Past pitches have included everything from next-generation batteries to cancer treatments and LVC has funded 117 projects that have gone on to launch 70 startups and raise more than $691 million, including Arkana Therapeutics, Mesa Quantum and Forge Nano—CU Boulder's 11th unicorn spinout.

These grants are funded in partnership with the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) Advanced Industries Program. These are the can't-miss showcases of the year to see CU's next wave of breakthrough innovations!

Event Details

🗓️ Physical Sciences: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 6-8:30 p.m.
🗓️ Biosciences: Thursday, Oct. 22, 6-8:30 p.m.

📍 The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder
👥 All Are Welcome — CU Affiliation is Not Required
🎟️ Tickets Are Free

About Venture Partners at CU Boulder

Set in the heart of our university's bold, innovative community of scholars and learners, Venture Partners at CU Boulder brings the university's world-class researchers together with business, startup and entrepreneurial communities to translate groundbreaking solutions into economic and social impact. Learn More

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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The myth of Prometheus serves as a cautionary tale about humanity's destructive use of a powerful element, particularly in the context of climate change. The concept of "Prometheus fire" highlights the duality of fire as both a gift that enables human progress and a destructive force that now imperils the planet through human-caused actions. As humans evolved from controlling fire for survival to harnessing it for industrial purposes, most of humanity inadvertently set the stage for a global climate crisis. This echoes the fate of Prometheus, a nearly 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine felled in 1964 by a graduate student studying past climate events. While the tree's felling was for research and not a direct act of climate destruction, its ancient life and the student's purpose implicitly connect it to the ongoing scientific efforts to understand and address the climate crisis that the broader Promethean myth foreshadows, making both figures symbolic of humanity's impact on the planet.

For easy entrance, arrive at the building from Discovery Drive.
Park at Parking lot 543
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Drop in to the Academic Coaching Study Hall to work quietly and independently on homework, exam prep, projects, or whatever you’ve been putting off. You don’t need an appointment, and you’re welcome to arrive late or leave early.

Work alongside other studentsGet a little extra structure and accountabilityAsk an Academic Coach questions or get support when you need itSnacks, fidgets, silent timers & intention sheets provided!

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For this course, we will assume that you have a basic understanding of version control and have been introduced to Git and GitHub. There is no need to be fluent in Git or GitHub.

This course is intended to be highly interactive. In order to participate, please be sure that you have a GitHub account, a working version of Git installed, and either a Personal Access Token or SSH keys set up to authenticate your GitHub account in advance. If you need assistance with this, please attend CRDDS consult hours or email rc-help@colorado.edu in advance of the session.

*What is a Short Course? A Short Course is a training that provides an in-depth understanding of a concept, system, or tool. You can expect to leave a "Short Course" with a solid grasp of the topic.

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This group is open to all CU Boulder staff and faculty and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in accordance with state, federal, and Regent law. Register: https://cvent.me/vmyWEe

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Aug. 27: Overall job search strategySept. 3: Building AI-compatible resumesSept. 10: Writing effective cover lettersSept. 17: Identifying skills to get noticed by employersSept. 24: Building skills that are valued by employersOct. 1: Networking skillsOct. 8: Using AI in the job searchOct. 22: InterviewingOct. 29: Negotiating job offers

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Learn more about volunteering and how to gain skills and experience that will help you qualify for Peace Corps service. There will be time to ask questions too!

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Consultations are open to all – from undergrad to faculty – and are offered every Tuesday (in-person, virtual) and Thursday (virtual only). Please register to ensure we have the best people available to assist you, and to receive the Zoom link (virtual consults only).

If you are unable to attend our regular hours and would like to set up a one-on-one consultation, or have additional questions, please contact us through our support request form.

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Students with a completed Handshake profile have a greater chance of being selected for an employer one-on-one. Others will be placed into group conversations.

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Sept. 3 • 2-3 pm • C4C S440
Sept. 15 • 11 am–12 pm • C4C N200
Sept. 24 • 2-3 pm • C4C S440
Sept. 28 • 5-6 pm • Virtual
Oct. 6 • 11 am–12 pm • C4C N200
Oct. 22 • 2-3 pm • C4C S440
Oct. 26 • 5-6 pm • Virtual
Nov. 3 • 2-3 pm • C4C S440
Nov. 12 • 2-3 pm • C4C S440
Nov. 16 • 5-6 pm • Virtual
Dec. 1 • 11 am–12 pm • C4C N200

Participation level: Medium. Students will be asked to participate in non-verbal ways and have opportunities to speak.

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Russian Tea Conversation Hour
Thursdays, 5 - 6 p.m.

Hellems N250

Open to all CU Boulder students, faculty, and staff
All levels are welcome

Welcome to Russian Tea! At this one-hour long conversation hour, participants will practice speaking Russian in an informal setting – tea and cookies will be served.

For more information, contact jillian.costello@colorado.edu.

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This event is open to all CU Boulder students and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in accordance with state, federal and Regent law.

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Hear short talks from students and faculty about opportunities such as research experiences, Studio Labs, internships, scholarships, and other ways to get involved and build your experience outside the classroom. Speakers will share how they found these opportunities, how to apply, and what they gained from the experience.

This event isn’t just about research and professional opportunities, it’s also about building community and creating connections among students, particularly students from diverse backgrounds. We want to create a welcoming space where students can meet one another and faculty, share experiences, ask questions, and learn about resources and opportunities they may not otherwise encounter.

Come connect with the IPHY community, explore what’s available to you, and learn about ways to take the next step in your academic and professional development. Free food will be provided!

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Past pitches have included everything from next-generation batteries to cancer treatments and LVC has funded 117 projects that have gone on to launch 70 startups and raise more than $691 million, including Arkana Therapeutics, Mesa Quantum and Forge Nano—CU Boulder's 11th unicorn spinout.

These grants are funded in partnership with the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) Advanced Industries Program. These are the can't-miss showcases of the year to see CU's next wave of breakthrough innovations!

Event Details

🗓️ Physical Sciences: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 6-8:30 p.m.
🗓️ Biosciences: Thursday, Oct. 22, 6-8:30 p.m.

📍 The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder
👥 All Are Welcome — CU Affiliation is Not Required
🎟️ Tickets Are Free

About Venture Partners at CU Boulder

Set in the heart of our university's bold, innovative community of scholars and learners, Venture Partners at CU Boulder brings the university's world-class researchers together with business, startup and entrepreneurial communities to translate groundbreaking solutions into economic and social impact. Learn More

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Learn practical tools for greater calm, focus, resilience, emotional well-being, and connection through evidence-informed breathwork, meditation, emotional intelligence, yoga, and mindful leadership practices.

Research on SKY Breath Meditation conducted with Yale University students has found improvements in areas including anxiety, depression, mindfulness, positive emotion, and social connectedness.

This retreat is more than a wellness course, it’s an opportunity to connect with yourself, meet new people, learn practical tools, and have fun!

✨ SKY Happiness Retreat Online

Choose from two dates:

October 16-18October 22-24Weekday sessions: 6:00-9:00 PM MT
Weekend sessions: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM MT

100% scholarships are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Full attendance for all three sessions is required. Sponsored by SOAC.

👉 Interested? Apply here:
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No-skill, novice and pro players are welcome.

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Thursdays 7:30PM-8:30PM(Oct. 1 / 8 / 15/ 22)

Thursdays 6:30PM-7:30PM (Nov. 5 / 12 / 19, Dec. 3)

All Japanese language learners who are currently taking or have previously taken JPNS2110 or a higher-level course in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations are invited!

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As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus. Contribute your personal experience to the project.

Visitors are also invited to enter the Campus Life Trivia Contest while exploring the exhibit to be eligible for a prize drawing. Follow the gingko leaves and respond to the questions to win a photo or a $50 dollar Amazon gift card.

Campus Life is a collaboration with NEST Studio for the Arts, the Museum of Natural History and Facilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check the Univeristy Libraries hours page for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.

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