Graduate Student Edition - Feb. 22, 2023

Earlier today, the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department along with multiple local and federal agencies assisted the Boulder Police Department in response to a reported incident at Boulder High School. There is no threat to the CU Boulder campus. People on campus may have noticed an increased police presence on campus as BHS reunification efforts took place at Macky Auditorium. Read the CU Advisory for more information about the response.

For those seeking resources, the university has a number of services and reminders:

Reach out for campus support resources

Ways to support yourself and each other through a traumatic event

When students, faculty and staff notice behaviors of concern

Campus Community

What to know about how campus emergency notifications work

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Safety

The campus’s new practice of alerting stakeholders to off-campus incidents can raise questions about the nature, reasoning and terminology of notifications, as evidenced this week. CU Boulder Police Chief Doreen Jokerst discusses.

Graduates sit on Folsom Field during commencement ceremony

CU Boulder commencement set for May 11

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General

Thousands of degrees will be awarded at commencement on May 11. The tradition-filled ceremony is designed for the campus community, families and friends to honor the remarkable graduates. Alumni who graduated during winter conferral in December of 2022 are invited to attend as well.

Research in Your Backyard

James Wilson and Rodger Kram carry a log from their heads using tumplines with the Boulder Foothills in the background

Scientists may have solved a Chaco Canyon mystery by hauling logs with their heads

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Society, Law & Politics

Roughly 1,000 years ago, ancient peoples carried more than 200,000 heavy timbers entirely on foot to a site in the modern-day Four Corners region called Chaco Canyon. CU Boulder researchers think they know how such a feat of human endurance may have been possible.

Artist's depiction of James Webb Space Telescope

Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist

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Space

In a new study, CU Boulder astrophysicist Erica Nelson and her colleagues spotted six "fuzzy dots" of light in images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The candidate galaxies may have existed just 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang and contain almost as many stars as the Milky Way.