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Happy Halloween, Buffaloes! Get your costume ready and check out one of the Halloween-themed events this weekend. Remember to keep it classy and take care of your friends!

Each semester, the campus performs a test of the CU Boulder Alerts system to raise awareness of the platform and test the deployment of new notification methods. Elements of the rescheduled test at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 26, will include the final integration of the Alertus desktop notifications platform and testing of upgrades to the alerts.colorado.edu website.

The Environmental Center is happy to work with climate-solutions expert Native Energy to help mitigate some of the university's ecological impacts.

The Research & Innovation Office, previously the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, creates impact by cultivating and supporting collaboration, transformation and leadership across CU Boulder. The recently released annual research report includes an array of research highlights from fiscal 2015-16. Read the stories and check out a video on CU Boulder's Grand Challenge: Our Space. Our Future.

Have you ever felt clueless when writing a paper? Are you worried that your paper is made up of a series of un-cohesive thoughts jumbled together? If the only thing you know about writing comes from what gets highlighted in red in Microsoft Office, then The Writing Center is your new best friend.

Text messages are accepted by Boulder County’s four 9-1-1 dispatch centers, including the CU Boulder Police Department. While this is a great feature, there are only specific times and reasons to use this type of emergency communication.

With October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Office of Victim Assistance is sharing some warning signs of intimate partner abuse.

If you missed the first set of campus flu shot clinics, it’s not too late to get a flu shot right on campus. Employee Services will host flu shot clinics for all CU Boulder faculty and staff on Oct. 24, 28 and 31.

More than 100 middle and high school students from Boulder County are joining 35 undergraduates Friday to tour campus and participate in workshops with community and campus organizations to address public issues impacting their communities. The students are part of the Public Achievement (PA) program, a youth-led civic engagement initiative promoting student voice and transformative change.

This week we want to bring awareness to the issue of sexual assault on college campuses around the country. Sexual assault is a horrendous crime that needs to end. Look out for those around you and make sure your friends, sisters, brothers, colleagues and fellow students get home safely. It is time to act. It ends with us.