Faculty/Staff Edition - March 8, 2017
Campus Community
From the Vice Provost: Focusing on first-year academic programs
The Office of Undergraduate Education (UE) focuses on first-year academic programs, such as Residential Academic Programs (RAPs), first-year seminars and Freshman Interest Groups (FIGs), as the foundation for student success.
Interested in BFA membership? Nominations due Friday
The Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Election Committee is now accepting nominations for BFA membershipÌýand for membership on the BFA's subcommittees. Submit nominations by Friday, March 10.
IMPART Fellowship grant applications due April 4
All ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder faculty are invited to submit applications for Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching (IMPART) fellowship awards. Grants ofÌýup to $4,000 are available.
Student-built 'tree office' takes root on campus
There’s a new office space on campus that anyone can use. The rental is free, the WI-FI works great and — being outdoors — the views are spectacular.
Events & Exhibits
Acclaimed video-art installation on display this weekend only
Dead ends, void zones and semi-porous borders fill a split-screen video of an Israeli bypass road and its surroundings in Peggy Ahwesh's art installation "Kissing Point (Revisited)," open March 11 and 12.
Economic, foreign policy ties between UK, Colorado on tap for British consul discussion
Expected to address Brexit, a British consul will give a talk on campus March 14 highlighting economic and policy ties between the U.K., Colorado and the university.
Research News
Engineers set to create membranes for next-generation battery technologies
A $3 million Department of Energy grant will help ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder researchers create better membranes for use in efficient cost-effective battery components for large-scale energy storage.
Break the two-hour marathon record? It could be done
Using mathematical calculations, a new study bears the recipe for how marathoners could break the world record among males, shaving about four and a half minutes off the fastest time.
In Focus
For Megan Mangum, the goal was college; and the route was hazy, as it often is for first-generation students. Now on track to graduate from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder, she tells her story with a disarming mix of candor, humor and optimism.
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