Campus News

Researchers at CU Boulder are seeking participants for two different studies on pain. Pain is always tolerable. Both studies offer compensation.

Register today for CU Night at the Rockies through the CU Boulder Alumni Association to get discounted game tickets, access to our pregame at Blake Street Tavern with free appetizers and a free CU-themed Rockies baseball cap. Join the fun on Friday, Aug. 19. Less than 50 tickets remain for this fun summer event at the ballpark in Denver. Get yours today.

Weather permitting, Facilities Management Outdoor Services staff will be applying an organic dry poultry waste fertilizer to campus lawns during the week of Monday, Aug. 8.

The Student Recreation Center will be closed Aug. 8-12 for annual maintenance.

This Saturday, the Class of 2020 began their 30-day countdown to the start of their college careers… which means it is only three weeks until Move-In 2016. Have you made your plans for this year’s event?

Excitement for the Olympics in Rio is building for CU alumni Jenny Simpson and Emma Coburn. The two track and field stars and training partners are aiming for gold when they compete in August at the XXXI Olympiad in Rio.

For Patrick Cruz, studying archaeological sites in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico this summer was a way to hone his skills. But the trip also allowed Cruz, a CU Boulder archaeology graduate student, to retrace the journey his Tewa ancestors made centuries ago.

At this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival, audiences at “The Comedy of Errors” will be wooed back to 1920s Paris by the costumes, the set and of course, an onstage minstrel and her accordion. Because after all, what would summer be without the whimsical sound of the accordion? For Alicia Baker, the answer to that question is simple: it just wouldn’t be summer.

Taking the Lede: Colorado Edition —a 45-minute documentary produced by CU News Corps students and faculty members—will air on Colorado Public Television (Channel 12) on Wednesday, June 29, at 8:30 p.m. The documentary details stories of Colorado high school journalism in the wake of the the 1988 Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, which ruled that school administrators could exercise restraint of school-sponsored expression.

Thirteen students from the CU-Boulder’s advertising program have won seven awards in a major international advertising contest. Their ad campaign entries range from a Lego fund to teach children about wildlife extinction to a LinkedIn platform designed to allow workplaces to address positive change around inequality.