A Protect Our Herd鈥揻ace covering required sign at the entrance of Farrand Field

COVID-19 campus updates: April 1 edition

April 1, 2021

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.

Sampling station and manhole

Not a moment to waste: How a resource beneath our campus has been key during COVID-19

April 1, 2021

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.

Engineers work on the EMM spacecraft in a cleanroom

How years of international collaboration led to Hope circling Mars

April 1, 2021

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.

Former undergraduate researcher Elizabeth Lombardi talks with Professor Barbara Demmig-Adams in the greenhouse on the roof of the Ramaley building at the 麻豆影院. (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)

Professor Barbara Demmig-Adams wins 2021 Hazel Barnes Prize

April 1, 2021

Biologist Barbara Demmig-Adams has won the 2021 Hazel Barnes Prize, the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the 麻豆影院.

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Get smart fast: Your top research stories from March

April 1, 2021

Here鈥檚 some CU news you can use: twerking bees, the challenges of sending humans to Mars, and seven lessons CU 麻豆影院 scientists helped discover about COVID-19.

Students eating off campus

10 things to do this weekend: Care packages, bingo game night, more

April 1, 2021

This weekend brings the CU Climate Justice Workshop, a free HIIT workout class, a 鈥淐lueless鈥 film screening, Buffs After Dark: Cycle like it鈥檚 2012, virtual concerts and more.

View of storefronts in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Colorado business confidence rebounding to record levels

April 1, 2021

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.

Chief of Police Doreen Jokerst

From Chief Jokerst: Supporting our community in many ways

April 1, 2021

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.

Street scene in Dolores, Colorado

New online network connects and supports Colorado鈥檚 rural entrepreneurs

March 31, 2021

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.

Lori Peek

Buff Innovator Insights podcast: New episode features Lori Peek

March 31, 2021

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.

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