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Grab a cup of your favorite coffee or tea and join Carla Ho-a and Ann Schmiesing for an overview of the CU Â鶹ӰԺ budget and the financial challenges and opportunities we face as an institution.

Experts from the Â鶹ӰԺ are available to discuss the trial and its relevance to racial bias in the judicial system and policing in the United States.

ProPublica’s series The NYPD Files, a searing investigation into how the country’s largest police department maintains impunity from public oversight, is the winner of this year’s Al Nakkula Award for police reporting. The annual award is co-sponsored by The Denver Press Club and CU Â鶹ӰԺ's College of Media, Communication and Information.

Six CU Â鶹ӰԺ startups—HUG Solutions, LGBT50, Orbital Biodesign, Sarus, Seedling Biosystems and Toobtek—will vie for their portion of $100,000 in funding at 5:30 p.m. April 13 via Zoom. Register to attend.

A modest new house in Fraser, Colorado—considered the coldest town in the lower-48—is no ordinary home. With it, a team of Buffs will compete this week in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon for the first time since 2007.

This week brings Program Council's Behind the Music with Dayglow, a networking workshop, a volunteer Buff meet-up, Startups2Students, free basketball at The Rec and more.

With a focus this week on students and families, CU leaders will discuss plans for the fall, including class schedules, registration and course modalities. There will also be updates on vaccines, the University Hill neighborhood and King Soopers tragedy.

Suspending bylaws in order to vote, the Â鶹ӰԺ Faculty Assembly passed a resolution at its April 1 meeting supporting more awareness around anti-Asian racism. The resolution, which Staff Council also voted to support, includes a number of resources for the campus community.

Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini´s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces and women accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

Register for this virtual CU on the Weekend talk in which Assistant Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum will discuss his ethnographic research working directly with radical right idealogues.