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Community Edition - Nov. 22, 2020

In Focus

A Protect Our Herd–face covering required sign at the entrance of Farrand Field

COVID-19 campus updates: Nov. 19 edition

Safety Campus Community
Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including stats and items of note. In this issue: the state places Boulder County at Level Red: Severe Risk on the COVID-19 dial; and more.
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CU making saliva-based PCR COVID-19 tests available to immediate family, household members

Safety Campus Community
CU Boulder Buff OneCard holders will be able to bring their immediate family/members of their household to participate in the campus surveillance monitoring program. Participants must be asymptomatic.

Discover What's Here

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Is it time for a new Civil Rights Act? A talk Dec. 1

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Professor Suzette Malveaux will explore how the U.S. Supreme Court’s civil procedure jurisprudence has undermined access to justice and civil rights enforcement, and why a new civil rights law is necessary during this critical and tumultuous time.
CT scan of a frog in vivid colors.

Museum spotlights reptiles and amphibians in incredible detail

Climate & Environment News Headlines
Ever want to see inside an iguana? A new project at the CU Museum of Natural History is collecting incredibly detailed images of specimens in its collection—including CT scans of their internal anatomy.

Research in Your Backyard

A researcher spits in a tube

Frequent, rapid testing could turn national COVID-19 tide within weeks

Health & Society News Headlines
New research shows that broad, national dissemination of frequent, rapid COVID-19 tests could turn the tide on the pandemic within weeks, without shutting down schools and businesses. For curbing infection, test turnaround time is more important than test sensitivity.
open window in an apartment

Keeping indoor air clean can reduce chance of spreading coronavirus

The Conversation News Headlines
Being indoors with other people is a recipe for spreading COVID-19, but removing airborne particles through proper ventilation and air filtration can reduce risk. Professor Shelly Miller shares on The Conversation.
Bike lanes

How the COVID-19 pandemic can reshape our streets and relationship to cars

Health & Society Climate & Environment News Headlines
In the spring of 2020, once-busy streets became quiet and empty. In many cities, pedestrians and bicycles filled city streets instead of cars. What could this mean for the future of our cities and transportation systems?
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Parental restrictions on childhood tech use have few lasting effects

Health & Society News Headlines
New research shows parental restrictions have few lasting effects on a child's tech use in young adulthood. Also, college students use more tech than they ever have in their lives or ever want to again.
silhouette of child playing in the woods

Connecting to nature is good for kids—but they may need help coping with a planet in peril

The Conversation News Headlines
Here are four ways adults can help kids work through their worries about the environment, shared by Professor Emerita of Environmental Design Louise Chawla on The Conversation.
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Talking criminal justice with Benjamin Levin

Law & Politics Faculty in Focus News Headlines Campus Community
Law Professor Benjamin Levin discusses the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and criminal justice reform, police unions and their role in policymaking, and mass incarceration in the United States.
Images of "circumstellar" disks circling young stars produced by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

New project to explore how planets get their atmospheres

Space News Headlines
A new NASA-funded effort will explore the processes that make planets habitable—or turn them into barren wastelands.
An image of a microscope

Researchers scale up tiny actuator inspired by muscle

Health & Society News Headlines
New research may one day enable soft machines to fully integrate with our bodies to deliver drugs, target tumors, or repair aging or dysfunctional tissue.

What We're Reading

CU Boulder Police Department ahead of curve in lethality assessment training

Leaders offer up reading list just in time for the holidays

Tyler Bey drafted by Philadelphia 76ers

In conversation with Colorado's premiere rock 'n' roll photographer

Leeds School of Business partners with Techstars

CU student earns prestigious Astronaut Scholarship

Attracted by top ranking, geology student returns to his roots

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