The InfoEd Electronic Research Administration system (eRA) will be unavailable during upcoming maintenance starting at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, until 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13. 

The BFA is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2023 Excellence Awards, recognizing outstanding work and a concerted effort to make advances in the academy. The chancellor provides financial support for these prestigious awards, which will be $5,000 beginning in 2023.

The BFA will grant three awards in each of the following areas:

• Excellence in Leadership and Service
• Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work
• Excellence in Teaching

Get details and nominate someone today.

Master's and doctoral students: Check out these November deadlines for winter degree conferral.

Nov. 10

Doctoral students must complete the PhD dissertation defense or final examination by this date. Notice of the examination must be provided to the Graduate School using the doctoral final examination form two weeks before the exam.

Nov. 17: Doctoral students

PhD students must submit the dissertation with Thesis Approval Form to ProQuest by this deadline. The dissertation must be submitted electronically for review and approval by Graduate School staff by the end of the business day. The Thesis Approval Form (TAF) must be uploaded as a supplemental file with the dissertation in order for the submission to be complete. Students whose dissertations are received after this deadline, or those not submitted with the TAF, must apply to graduate at the following semester's commencement.

PhD and DMA students must also fill out the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) online by this deadline. See additional information about the survey.

Nov. 17: Master’s students

Master's students must complete the thesis defense or final examination by this date. Notice of the examination must be provided to the Graduate School using the master's final examination form two weeks before the exam. Certain units do not require an exam for non-thesis students. Please contact your department with any questions.

Nov. 21

Doctoral student grade changes must be submitted for incomplete courses taken during previous or current semesters.

Nov. 30

Master's students must submit a thesis plan and Thesis Approval Form to ProQuest by this deadline. The thesis must be submitted electronically for review and approval by Graduate School staff by the end of the business day. The Thesis Approval Form (TAF) must be uploaded as a supplemental file with the dissertation in order for the submission to be complete. Students whose dissertations are received after this deadline, or those not submitted with the TAF, must apply to graduate at the following semester's commencement.

Preview additional upcoming graduation deadlines on the Graduate School website.

Graduate students are invited to attend an information session to learn about how to compete in the global Map the System competition organized by the University of Oxford.

The goal of the competition is to encourage a learning-first approach to social change—one where students delve deep into a problem that matters to them, research the system in which that problem is embedded, and then share their findings with the world.

Contact Professor Don Grant for more information.

If you go

Monday, Nov. 14
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Zoom

Is there a book, show, artist or podcast that you love and need the whole world to know? Submit a recommendation to the University Libraries’ winter media list.

Titles will be published with your name and recommendation blurb in a news story on the libraries website.

Recommendations will be accepted through Monday, Nov. 14.

We are seeking three passionate and enthusiastic part-time satellite operators to join our team at our headquarters in Louisville, Colorado. This is an opportunity to be a part of the space industry and make an impact. This is a critical role for the company and requires dedication and commitment with the ability to work evenings and weekends as needed. This would be an ideal opportunity for someone currently attending university, studying aerospace engineering, mechatronics engineering, astrodynamics or a similar field.  

The Starting Blocks program teaches customer discovery and market fit to university researchers and innovators.

The Starting Blocks Customer Discovery Workshop is a three-day virtual workshop with customer interviews designed to help scientists and engineers of all types find a market for their innovations. The core concept encourages inventors to get out of the lab and talk to industry decision-makers to find out what problem the industry needs their product to solve. 

Starting Blocks is the shortest, introductory version of the National Science Foundation's I-Corps methodology, which helps inventors build a customer discovery toolkit and learn to talk to industry and business funders about their technologies. 

The virtual workshop will take place from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursdays, Nov. 4, 11 and 18. There is no cost to participate.

The program consists of:

• Three half-day lectures on customer discovery and interviewing
• Five to 10 interviews during the week done in a target industry
• Weekly check-in meetings with instructors and staff

Want to learn more? Contact Program Director Emily Klein at eklein@colorado.edu.

What impact did the COVID-19 pandemic have on your commute? Last week, CU Boulder’s Parking and Transportation department, in partnership with the city of Boulder, released a survey that analyzes our methods of commuting to campus. All faculty and staff are encouraged to take the survey to inform decisions around campus transportation systems.

The survey should take about 7–10 minutes to complete. Data from the survey will be compared to past campus transportation surveys to assess current habits and changes that have occurred in recent years. Insights from the survey will inform CU Boulder’s efforts to improve transportation to, from and through our campus, supporting strategic initiatives that align with the recommendations of the Campus Master Plan.

Take the survey here: CU Boulder Faculty/Staff Employee Transportation Survey 2022. The deadline for completion is Nov. 9.

This survey is hosted by Polco and The National Research Center, which will report results in group form only. Your responses are entirely confidential. If you have any questions or comments about the survey, please email Sustainable Transportation Specialist Clark Rider at buffscommute@colorado.edu.

If you missed the State of the Research & Innovation Enterprise webinar, you can view the recording covering funding trends, investments in faculty and leadership, highlights and success stories, and research and innovation opportunities for faculty and campus.

Showcase your art in the heart of campus! The Student Arts Program collects original art created by the CU Boulder student community and displays it throughout the UMC.

Accepting art as photography/film/technology, painting, drawing, sculpture or textile. Visit our website for a detailed list of acceptable media.

Awards will be given for top submissions. Artwork is reviewed by a panel of judges that decides which artwork is accepted into the program and where that artwork will be displayed. The UMC covers the cost of framing, hanging and securing the artwork.

Deadline: Jan. 22, 2023

Are you interested in a leadership position next year? Want to find out more about the day-to-day activities of a GPSG executive? We are looking for a student(s) to shadow the president of outreach from the end of November until the end of January. During this shadow period you will:

• Attend outreach team meetings with the director of legislative affairs and co-senators to CUSG (once a week except during holidays)
• Attend executive team meetings (once a week except during holidays)
• Attend meetings with the dean of the Graduate School, chancellor and COO (two-three meetings a month)
• Be involved in discussion of the following executive areas of responsibility: Internal GPSG leadership, external graduate/professional student advocacy, administration and management, social engagement
• You will NOT be responsible for direct communication with campus administrators or other units within GPSG outside of the outreach team
• The director of legislative affairs will serve as the acting president of outreach during this time and has final responsibility for team decisions and communication

Executives for academic year 2023–24 will be elected in March and April 2023. See our elections page for more details. Serving in this shadow position is meant to be informative and does not guarantee election.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Chief of Staff Emily Jensen at chiefofstaff.gpsg@colorado.edu. 

Tickets still remain for the University of Colorado men’s basketball team’s exhibition game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Sunday, Oct. 30, in which all ticket proceeds will go toward survivors and first responders of last December’s devastating Marshall Fire in Boulder County.

With tipoff scheduled for 4 p.m., and gates opening at 3 p.m., the exhibition will be the first opportunity for fans to see the 2022–23 Buffaloes while also contributing to a great cause.

Tickets are $20 for chairback seating, $15 for bench seating and just $5 for students. Proceeds will go directly to the Boulder County Wildfire Fund. Tickets are available online or by visiting the ticket office located in the Champions Center. Survivors and first responders can claim complimentary tickets to the game by clicking here.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the CU Boulder Department of Athletics and the Community Foundation Boulder County, which has been working closely with government, business and nonprofit partners to address the immediate, short- and long-term needs of the community following the Marshall Fire.

Many survivors are still struggling to recover, and this exhibition game will put much-needed funds in the hands of those who need it, while providing survivors and first responders an exciting afternoon of college basketball.

The 2022–23 Buffaloes look to use this season to continue to build on their recent success, which includes four-straight 20-win seasons and a pair of Pac-12 Conference top-four finishes.

Labels aren’t a priority for the creative directors behind the College of Music’s popular Pendulum New Music series.

The live performance/forum for new works, which will officially change its name from Pendulum to CU Boulder SoundWorks in January 2023, doesn’t place the same emphasis on formal categorization that obsesses many music fans and scholars alike. According to Egemen Kesikli, Pendulum/SoundWorks’ newly appointed artistic director, the focus of the concert series is more about inclusion, exploration and innovation than it is about classification. 

The Faculty Salary Procedures Working Group, formed last spring to study existing faculty salary procedures and to discern best practices, has posted a webpage that lists the group’s appointees and links to the charge approved by Boulder Faculty Assembly Chair Tiffany Beechy and Provost Russell Moore. The group, co-chaired by Daria Kotys-Schwartz of mechanical engineering and Steve Vanderheiden of political science, will meet biweekly into December and plans to have an initial set of recommendations completed by January 2023. 

Faculty members are encouraged to send their questions and input to Andre Grothe, assistant vice provost, Office of Academic Planning and Assessment.