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Free webinars on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and 'Richard II'

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Each year, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival offers a free webinar series, featuring CSF dramaturgs and directors. These one-hour sessions will help you learn a little more about the Shakespeare titles in CSF's 2025 season. All sessions are recorded and available on the website throughout the summer. 

Join study on sleep and circadian rhythms, delayed sleep-wake phase disorder

The Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory is looking for people with delayed sleep-wake phase disorder or people with late bedtimes, or healthy people with typical bedtimes.

The purpose of this study is to improve our understanding of mechanisms of delayed sleep-wake phase disorder (DSWPD). We are testing patients with DSWPD, as well as healthy people without DSWPD. The study is 6.5 weeks long with six in-person visits at CU Boulder.

You may be eligible for this study if you:

  • Are ages 16–30
  • Have a diagnosis of delayed-sleep wake phase disorder or have a bedtime after 1 a.m., an inability to fall asleep, and difficulty awakening when required for school/work
  • Or are healthy with typical bedtimes and no sleep concerns

Study activities include:

  • Health screening
  • Monitor on separate occasions your sleep, mood, eating times for one or two weeks, and blood sugar levels while living at home
  • Live in the sleep laboratory on two separate occasions for 51–66 hours (approximately 4.87 days in total)
  • Blood and saliva sampling and reaction time, mood, and ability to think testing

Compensation is up to $1,750. Get study details and apply.

Participants needed: Research study on sleep and circadian rhythms

We are looking for healthy males and females, ages 17–40, to participate in a study at the CU Boulder Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory.

  • The study is seven weeks long with eight in-person visits.
  • Participants live in the sleep laboratory on two separate occasions for 7.7 days (15.4 days total)

Compensation up to $4,093. Get study details and apply.

Low-cost therapy for students, faculty, staff, community members

Struggling with anxiety or depression? Feeling down, hopeless or stuck in a cycle of unproductive worry? Low-cost teletherapy and in-person therapy are available through CU Boulder’s Raimy Psychology Clinic for individuals residing in Colorado.

Raimy Clinic therapists can provide help coping with stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and other difficulties! Special low rates are available for all CU Boulder students, staff and faculty, or family members of full-time staff or faculty. Openings for new clients are available now. Email or call now to start the intake process.

For more information, call our intake coordinator, Pia Sellery, at 303-492-5177, email raimy@colorado.edu, or visit our website.

Deadline July 15: Pitch your innovation to win a grant up to $125K

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Through the Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), top innovations from CU Boulder, CU Denver and UCCS compete for grants of up to $125,000. LVC supports projects that address a commercial need, have a clear path to a compelling market and have strong scientific support. These grants are funded by Venture Partners at CU Boulder and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) Advanced Industries Program.

Join a mindfulness and cognition study

Participate in a paid one-hour in-person research study about mindfulness and cognition at CU Boulder!

Eligibility: 

  • 18-plus years old 
  • Able to communicate in English
  • Able to participate in-person 
  • Able to do a short, guided meditation

What’s involved:

  • Five-minute online screening
  • 55-minute in-person visit (at the Renée Crown Wellness Institute)

Compensation: $20 for your participation.

Sign up here. If you have questions, please contact the principal investigator, Winnie Zhuang, at wen.zhuang@colorado.edu. 

University of Colorado Boulder IRB Protocol # 24-0545

Get a sneak peek at the COLTT plenary panel and plan to attend

This year’s Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) Conference features a can't-miss plenary panel: AI from Campus to Career: Preparing Students for a Shifting Educational and Workforce Landscape.

Guiding this crucial discussion is Susan Adams (PDF), a trailblazing leader in instructional design and faculty development. Adams is a passionate advocate for empowering educators and students to thrive in this new AI era. 

The panel will bring insights from the workforce, vendor and ethics perspectives. Panelists include: Jennifer Henderson (PDF), France Hoang (PDF) and Beth Rudden (PDF).

Don't miss this opportunity to engage with leading voices that shape AI’s role in education and beyond. Be prepared to walk away with the clarity and confidence to navigate the AI revolution in education.

  • Redesign learning so AI use becomes a valued skill not a shortcut.
  • Integrate AI to deepen engagement and spark creativity.
  • Prepare students for careers that may not even exist yet!

Secure your spot today at the COLTT Conference and be part of this transformative discussion: Register now.

We look forward to seeing you at COLTT 2025!

Paid research opportunity: Study on cognitive load in VR/AR

The SHINE Lab at CU Boulder is recruiting participants for XR research assessing and optimizing cognitive load. This entails identifying when and how to reduce cognitive load and improve training in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). 

Who can join this study:

  • You are between 18–65 years old
  • You can speak and read English
  • You have normal vision (20/20) or corrected vision with contact lenses. Glasses are not recommended to be used with VR headsets.

Where

Center for Innovation and Creativity (CINC), Room 184E* 
1777 Exposition Drive, Boulder, CO 80301

*This room is inaccessible without a key, so someone will meet you in the lobby.

Study details

In this research experiment, you are invited to complete an assembly task while inside of a consumer-available extended reality head-mounted display (HMD). This means that you may be in virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR). You will also wear a full head of neurological sensors: functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electroencephalography (EEG). 

The experiment takes 120 minutes. There are no direct benefits to you as a participant, but you will be able to gain some understanding of XR research. HMDs may increase the potential for humans to experience motion sickness symptoms or simulator sickness. Experience of these symptoms is greater for participants who have a history of motion sickness. As with any research, there is some possibility that you may be subject to risks that have not yet been identified. 

You will receive a $40 Amazon gift card for your participation.

Please register for an experiment slot.

Free Shakespeare webinars from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

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Learn all about the plays in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2025 season from the dramaturgy team. This informal webinar series is a great way to learn about the historical context, production history and behind-the-scenes aspects of the plays.

Streaming talks: Dates and times

We invite you to attend each presentation from the comfort of your home.

The Tempest
Monday, June 2, 6–7 p.m. MT
Dramaturg: Amanda Giguere, PhD

Richard II
Monday, June 23, 6–7 p.m. MT
Dramaturg: Heidi Schmidt, PhD

Registration is required.

Paid research opportunity: Maternal communication study

We are writing to invite young children to participate in a fun language perception study! You and your child can participate online via Zoom or in person at a time that is convenient for you.

The study is open to 3- to 5-year-old typically developing children who are acquiring English as a first language.

Your child will engage in a task in which they will be shown four images and asked to touch one of them (e.g. "touch the star!"). The total time for the study is 20–30 minutes including breaks.

We will send you a $20 Amazon gift card within one to two weeks of study completion. We have attached a flier with further details.

Interested? Contact us at ldclab.boulder@colorado.edu.