Faculty/Staff Edition - Oct. 28, 2016
Michele Moses, associate dean for graduate studies in the School of Education, has been awarded the 2016 Hazel Barnes Prize, the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the university. She is also the first education faculty member to receive the award.
Campus & Community
Funding innovation in how we work
Recently, Senior Vice Chancellor and CFO Kelly Fox put an experiment in motion. What would happen if she set aside a small budget to fund projects that would encourage creativity in both the work we do and how we do it?
First-Year Seminar Program to offer freshmen a high-impact learning model
Registration begins Monday, Oct. 31, for 32 new faculty-led freshmen seminars that will be offered in the Spring Semester. These seminars are limited to only 19 students each. Check out the variety of topics you can focus on with classmates who share your interests and goals.
It's another Colorado Cross Country sweep at the Pac-12 Championships
For the second straight year, Colorado reigned supreme at the Pac-12 Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships, sweeping the team titles Friday morning in Tucson, Arizona.
Top 25 or better: ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder ranks high in football and a whole lot more
The Buff football team has cracked the top 25 in national rankings for the second time this season, which led the campus community to wonder: What other programs and teams are ranked in the top 25? As it turns out, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder has quite a lot of leadership to be proud of.
Events & Exhibits
The success and the science of the student-built MinXSS Solar CubeSat
On Nov. 2, LASP research scientist and recent ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Aerospace Engineering Sciences PhD graduate James Mason will speak on the early results from LASP's latest CubeSat project, MinXSS, which focuses on the energetic processes that occur in the sun's atmosphere.
Forever Buffs Spotlight event to feature Alan Stern (PhDAstro '89)
Join the ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Alumni Association as we highlight the incredible accomplishments of Alan Stern, who received his PhD in astrophysics at in 1989. Stern is the principal investigator for the New Horizons mission and one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2016.
Comedian Maysoon Zayid at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Nov. 1
Award-winning actress, writer and stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid will speak at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder onÌýTuesday, Nov.Ìý1, at 7 p.m. in the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom. The event, hostedÌýbyÌýthe Cultural Events Board, is free and open to the public.
Buffs stun No. 9 UCLA
No. 22 Colorado knocked off its second consecutive top-10 opponent, defeating No. 9 UCLA 1-0 on Thursday afternoon at Prentup Field. The Buffs were coming off a 3-2 double-overtime victory at No. 10 California on Sunday. The Buffs will host No. 4 Southern California Sunday at noon.
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