Announcements & Deadlines

Being a Buff means getting out in the world and learning through experience. At CU-Boulder, we encourage you to enhance your academic experience and be engaged. CU-Boulder also has a number of programs and offices in place to help support you.

Due to an unexpectedly strong winter storm moving into the Boulder area overnight, the CU-Boulder campus closed today, cancelling on-campus finals. Read more about updates to the exam schedule and campus opening status .

This Thursday, Dec. 3, the new Human Capital Management (HCM) system will debut and human resources functions in MyCUInfo, like Leave, Pay Stub, and Benefits Snapshot, will have a brand new look and feel. New CU Careers functionality will also be introduced Dec. 3, and a new job applicant interface will roll out Saturday, Dec. 5. See how Elevate will affect your role at the university , what to expect from Elevate and the new-look HR resources , and check out the Elevate timeline to learn more about what to expect in the coming days and weeks.

Are you beginning to think about searching for a place to live next year? Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations can help. Click through to learn some house hunting tricks and tips and to see what campus resources are available to help you in your search.

Campus Dining Services and the University Memorial Center are excited to welcome a Starbucks in the UMC, slated to open late spring 2016. The Starbucks will be located in the current Baby Doe’s location.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will be on the University of Colorado Boulder campus May 16 to sign into law SB14-001, a $2 million appropriation to help fund the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory that involves four state institutions and a number of industry partners.

Jordan Burns, a University of Colorado Boulder junior majoring in civil engineering, has won a prestigious Truman Scholarship, an honor that brings with it up to $30,000 for graduate study. Burns, who is from Colorado Springs, is CU-Boulder’s ninth recipient of the scholarship and first since 2006.

Three University of Colorado Boulder students -- Brittany Earle, Mike Lotto and Jeni Sorli, all from the College of Engineering and Applied Science -- have been awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships. The scholarships are worth up to $7,500 and recognize sophomores and juniors who have achieved high academic merit and who are expected to be leaders in their fields.

University of Colorado Boulder Professor Bernard Amadei has been appointed one of three new Science Envoys who will help strengthen U.S. ties with other countries to address global challenges, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today. Amadei, who holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering at CU-Boulder, along with professors Susan Hockfield of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barbara Schaal of Washington University in St. Louis, make up the third cohort of Science Envoys since the program’s inception in 2009.

More than 100 students, faculty and professional engineers from a seven-state region are expected to gather in Boulder Oct. 5-7 to learn about sustainable engineering practices that can benefit the developing world. The University of Colorado Boulder will host the 2012 Mountain Region Conference for Engineers Without Borders-USA, a nonprofit organization founded by CU engineering Professor Bernard Amadei 10 years ago after he was asked to engineer a water pump for a village in Belize.