Picking up your trash is even more important now that the Boulder City Council recently passed an ordinance that adds a civil violation to the city’s trash violation process.

Starting Saturday, March 18, the ordinance will make it easier for police officers to issue you a trash citation. Under the previous process, residents would receive a warning to clean up their trash by a certain deadline. If the violation was not fixed in time, an officer would have served the resident a criminal summons, which needs to be received in person and signed by the resident.

The new civil process still includes a warning to clean up by a certain deadline. However, instead of an officer needing to serve you a criminal summons in person, they can post the civil citation on your door or email it to your landlord. This change saves time for officers and makes it easier to deliver a citation.

The new process also established new fines:

• $100 for a first offense
• $250 for a second offense
• $500 for a third offense

Students can get free trash bags from Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations by stopping by their office in UMC 313.

As part of the continuous assessment of our emergency notification protocols and procedures, campus officials will test the CU Boulder alerts system at approximately 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21.

This test was originally scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 28. However, due to a high number of alerts sent to the CU Boulder community in the preceding week, the test was rescheduled.

The biannual testing, required by a federal law known as the Clery Act, involves checking the university’s systems for sending text messages, emails, social media posts, computer desktop alerts and website announcements. This testing helps ensure we’re staying up to date with best practices and maintaining readiness to respond in case of emergencies.

Get more information on the types of emergency notifications campus provides. Also, review what to know about how campus emergency notifications work.

Looking for adults (ages 21–40) to participate in a paid research study. The CUChange lab is conducting a study on acute cannabis use. The goal is to better understand the effects of cannabis on inflammation and blood sugar regulation.

Participation in this study involves two in-person appointments over the course of one week. These appointments include blood collection through an intravenous catheter (IV), two oral glucose tests and a series of confidential surveys about health, diet and exercise.

Participants can earn up to $200 for completing the study.

Requirements:

• 21–40 years old
• Have used cannabis at least once
• Have not used cannabis in the last 3 months
• Are willing to use cannabis at one of the appointments

If you are interested, please complete the eligibility survey. For more information, please contact sonic.custudy@gmail.com.

The Alumni Awards are one of CU’s longest-standing traditions—and we can’t celebrate deserving Forever Buffs without your help. Nominations are open through April 24 to recognize the achievements of CU alums, faculty, staff and students.

The Graduate and Professional Student Government is recognizing graduate and professional student excellence in the areas of teaching and mentorship; collegiality and scholarship; and diversity, equity and inclusion work.

Applications are open March 10–24. Learn more and apply.

The Pain Lab at CU Boulder, affiliated with the Institute of Cognitive Science, is seeking participants ages 21–70 for a research study with non-invasive wearable sensors.

You may be eligible if you have experienced back pain for the last three-plus months. Participants will be compensated up to $360.

If you're interested, fill out the eligibility screening form. We will contact you regarding your eligibility.

For those who are motivated by the potential to translate their research, win grants and impact society, I-Corps Starting Blocks provides the tools, resources and support needed to bring innovations to those in need and improve competitiveness for funding additional research. 

This program includes three virtual workshops spread over three weeks April 7–21 and introduces participants to the commercialization process.

CU’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence is recruiting participants for focus groups to view and provide feedback via Zoom on educational messages for violence prevention. The messages will be displayed on PowerPoint slides during a 60-minute meeting.

Each participant will receive a $25 Amazon gift card.

The study seeks to test messages on violence prevention and "upstander" reporting with CU audiences to help improve the quality of a public awareness campaign on campus and community safety.

To sign up to participate, email violence prevention researcher Sarah Goodrum at sarah.goodrum@colorado.edu. Recruitment will run through April 2023.

Faculty are invited to the March 16 open forum to review proposed salary procedures with the Faculty Salary Procedures Working Group’s co-chairs Daria Kotys-Schwartz and Steve Vanderheiden. Join to review the group's proposed salary procedures and weigh in on the draft report.

If you go

Thursday, March 16, 2–3 p.m.
Register for Zoom details

The Events Planning and Catering commencement menu is available May 7–13. The menu offers breakfast, hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and a variety of dessert options. Orders for commencement must be finalized by April 7. Review the commencement menu (PDF).

As the weather gets warmer, students are more likely to host gatherings outside. We understand some of those gatherings may disrupt your daily life. 

CU Boulder's Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations (OCHNR) is available to support community members in addressing concerns and mitigating any disruptions. Check out the OCHNR community resources page to get support and learn what to do if your student neighbor is hosting disruptive parties.

Affordable psychotherapy is available at the Raimy Clinic in the Muenzinger Psychology Building on the CU Boulder campus. Raimy Clinic therapists can provide help for children and adolescents who are struggling with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, ADHD or social and academic difficulties, among other problems. Special low rates are available for children of all full-time CU Boulder students, staff and faculty.

For more information, parents please call our intake coordinator Anna Gilmour at 303-492-5177, email raimy@colorado.edu or visit our website.

The Human Interaction & Robotics Lab and the Collaborative AI and Robotics Lab at CU Boulder are looking for participants to complete a study involving working with a Sawyer robot to complete a collaborative task.

You must be 18 years or older. You will receive a $15 Amazon gift card for approximately an hour of participation.

Sign up now to get involved.

The deadline to submit candidate petition packets for tri-executives and representative-at-large seats has been extended to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 8. Learn more about CUSG elections.