Published: Nov. 6, 2023

Accreditation for CU Art Museum听

After a five-year process, the CU 麻豆影院 Art Museum gained its first accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) this summer. Only about 3.5% of the nation鈥檚 estimated 33,000 museums 鈥 including 26 in Colorado 鈥 have this designation. AAM awarded the art museum accreditation for its professional standards for education, public service and care of collections.

Robotics apparatusNew Robotics Degrees

This fall, CU 麻豆影院 began offering a master鈥檚 and doctorate program in robotics. The program, which is one of about 15 like it in the nation, will equip students for careers in security, agriculture, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and first response. Specific courses include 鈥淢achine Learning,鈥 鈥淢edical Device Design鈥 and 鈥淚ntroduction to Virtual Reality.鈥

In Couples, Opposites Don鈥檛 Attract

A CU 麻豆影院 analysis of more than 130 traits in heterosexual couples found that partners were more likely to have traits in common than not. The study looked at data from existing and new research for millions of couples, and found that partners were most likely to be similar in about 80% to 90% of traits, which can range from preferences in politics to religion or substance use habits.听

鈥淎 lot of models in genetics assume that human mating is random. This study shows this assumption is probably wrong,鈥 said the study鈥檚 senior author Matt Keller, who is director of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics.

The authors are studying same-sex couples in separate research.听

Heard Around Campus

鈥淵ou may tip your hairdresser, but do you tip your physical therapist? Probably not, but why?鈥澨

鈥斕鼵U 麻豆影院 economics professor Jeff Zax, who told CU 麻豆影院 Today this summer he believes the U.S. economy would be healthier without tipping practices and would like to see employees compensated more fairly instead.听

Old Main Beehives

In August, CU 麻豆影院 extracted two beehives from Old Main that were nearly a century old. The bees will be rehomed.听

8/15

Date beekeeper removed the hives听

80+

Years old

~200,000

Bees in both of the hives听

60

Pounds of honey collected听

4

Feet long (larger hive)听

2024

Old Main restoration project expected to begin听

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