Faculty/Staff Edition - Sept. 16, 2016
Campus & Community
Erwin named Chief Human Resources Officer
At the conclusion of a successful internal search, Senior Vice Chancellor Kelly Fox has today named Katherine Erwin Chief Human Resources Officer for the University of Colorado Boulder.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder awarded $437 million in research funding for FY15-16
University of Colorado Boulder researchers were awarded nearly $437 million in research grants in the 2015-16 fiscal year, continuing a decade’s worth of robust growth in sponsored research funding for the campus.
Most diverse, academically qualified freshman class settles into college life
Their average SAT score is 1191; ACT composite 27.3; and high school GPA 3.66. The freshman class of 6,439 is also the most diverse, with 26 percent U.S. students of color enrolled. Seventeen percent are first in their families to go to college. Of the freshmen from Colorado, 33.4 percent are Esteemed Scholars.
Ex-Libyan prime minister says technology won’t save the world
Five years after the Arab Spring uprisings rocked the Middle East, former Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril offered University of Colorado Boulder students a front-row perspective on the protests’ genesis, their shortcomings and the lessons the world should absorb in the coming decades.
Events & Exhibits
NASA's mission to Europa: Exploring a potentially habitable world
Robert Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will discuss the upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, and its potential to support simple life. The mission, slated to launch in the early 2020s, will investigate the moon’s ice shell, ocean, composition, geology, and current activity. Friday, Sept. 23, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Dance brings female Hip-Hop luminaries to Boulder
This fall, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder brings street culture to the stage with [UN] W.R.A.P.: Women of the Cypher, a weekend-long performance event bringing together renowned female Hip-Hop scholars, artists and enthusiasts for a critical and creative exchange. From breaking to waacking to DJing, no facet of Hip-Hop will go unexplored at the event, which takes place Sept. 23-25 at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder’s Charlotte York Irey Theatre.
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