Faculty-Staff Edition - Aug. 25, 2023
With the help of family and volunteers, students from across the country and globe arrived on campus this week eager to move into their residence halls and start their time at CU Boulder.
Campus Community
Expanded emergency notification moves from pilot phase to adoption
Campus officials will continue to send emergency alerts for off-campus incidents that pose a threat to life and safety, partnering with the Boulder Police Department to share confirmed information quickly.
5 reasons to attend the Health & Wellness Summit
Health and Wellness Services is hosting its annual Health & Wellness Summit on Tuesday, Nov. 12, and Wednesday, Nov. 13. Faculty and staff are invited to attend engaging presentations to gain tangible skills and learn about resources and programs to support their well-being at work and at home.
13 faculty, staff selected for Excellence in Leadership Program
The Office of Faculty Affairs is announcing the 2023–24 Excellence in Leadership Program participants, who will play a crucial role in meeting the challenges and advancing the future of the university.
CU Boulder, CIRES welcome new geodesist Khosro Ghobadi-Far
Engineering faculty member and CIRES Fellow Khosro Ghobadi-Far uses sophisticated satellite data to understand Earth's evolving climate and water cycles.
Get start-of-semester Canvas tips
If you’re planning on using Canvas to teach this fall, these helpful tips will ease you into the new semester. Explore design features, using video and more. Browse frequently asked questions.
Faculty Takes
India just won the race to the moon’s South Pole. Here’s what comes next
Marking the latest milestone in a new kind of space race, India's Chandrayaan-3 mission touched down safely on the moon. CU Boulder astrophysicist Jack Burns gives his take on why nations and companies are hurrying to parts of the moon that no Apollo craft ever visited.
Research Updates
CU Boulder wins $5M Air Force grant to track objects orbiting the moon
CU Boulder is leading a major Air Force project to track objects orbiting near the moon, collaborating with researchers at Texas A&M, Georgia Tech and L3Harris Technologies.
The Conversation
Trump’s classified-documents indictment does more than allege crimes
Prosecutors could have composed a technocratic document intelligible only to other criminal law insiders when indicting Donald Trump in the documents case; they did much more. Read from CU law expert Derek Kiernan-Johnson on The Conversation.