Through the spring semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: fall semester to mark return to more traditional in-person experience; CU to continue to prioritize earlier vaccine eligibility phases as state distribution expands April 2; more.
This month brings finals prep, volunteer opportunities, the Earth Day tree walk, craft nights, mental health support, video games, goat yoga, musical performances, puppy playtime and more.
We鈥檙e coming together in the CU Police Department to support our campus and our community in as many different ways as we can. Read more from Police Chief Doreen Jokerst.
Hear about Lori Peek's formative years in small-town Kansas, her love for teaching and mentoring and how her research is helping us learn from disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 pandemic. Peek is a professor, faculty associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science and the director of the Natural Hazards Center.
A dedicated team of faculty, staff and students has been working around the clock since the start of the fall semester to monitor the virus that causes COVID-19 in our campus wastewater. It's been critical to keeping campus safe during this pandemic, and systems like it could even help us catch the next one.
Beginning in 2015, dozens of researchers and engineers from the United Arab Emirates traveled to the foot of the Rocky Mountains to work toward an ambitious goal鈥攖o launch the first mission to Mars from an Arab nation.
Many of Colorado's small towns are losing young people as they follow job opportunities in bigger cities. But a new effort is trying to reinvigorate the economies of these tight-knit communities.
Business leaders around the state are feeling increasingly hopeful about Colorado's economy, a response to increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates and the easing of public health restrictions.