University of Colorado Boulder
The Buff Bulletin Board, a listing of campus announcements, is a service of Campus Communications.
Enterprise database maintenance on Saturday, July 30, will cause two 5- to 15-minute outages between 6 a.m. and noon for many campus services, including MyCUInfo, Buff Portal, Canvas and more.
The Neuromechanics Lab at CU Boulder is looking for volunteers to take part in a research study that investigates the roles of effort and reward on movement decision-making.
To take part you must:
This study is expected to last one hour. Participants will receive an Amazon gift card as compensation. All procedures take place in our campus laboratory (Engineering Center, ECSL 1B21).
For more information, please contact:
Colin Korbisch
Neuromechanics Lab
Engineering Center, ECSL 1B19
colin.korbisch@colorado.edu
Master's and doctoral students: Check out these August deadlines for summer graduation.
Doctoral grade changes must be submitted for incomplete courses taken during previous or current semesters.
Master's thesis plan students must submit the thesis 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.
Master’s grade changes must be submitted for incomplete courses taken during previous semesters.
Deadline to update diploma name and address for summer graduates.
Planning to have your degree awarded in summer 2022? Ensure you have met all previous graduation deadlines on the Graduate School website.
Need to change your previous graduation plans? Be sure to apply online to graduate anew through Buff Portal for December or a future term.
Be sure you've got your fall bill covered––check to make sure all of your financial aid to-do items are complete before Aug. 15.
Financial aid will apply toward the bill the Monday before the first day of classes (Aug. 15 for fall) if all to-do items are complete. You may see tuition charges on your bill already, but things such as housing and other charges may not be available yet. You'll be able to view your entire fall bill by mid-August, but it's not due until Sept. 5.
Read more about checking your aid before the fall semester.
The Human Interaction & Robotics Lab and the Collaborative AI and Robotics Lab 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.
To get involved, complete the participant interest form.
The University Libraries invites faculty and GPTIs interested in open educational resources to participate in the 2022–23 Course OER Creation/Adaptation Initiative. Deadline to apply is Aug. 1.
The NASA Psyche Inspired creative arts internship is open to all talented, creative full-time enrolled undergraduate students, regardless of major. Psyche Inspired is a program that brings students together to share the excitement, innovation, and scientific and engineering content of NASA’s Psyche mission with the public through artistic and creative works.
Deadline to apply is 1 p.m. (MDT) Friday, Aug. 5. Questions? Fill out the contact form.
Take a look at upcoming professional development seminars for graduate students and an important graduation deadline for doctoral students.
Grad+ Summer Book Club
Tuesday, July 19, 3–4 p.m., Rayback Collective
This summer, join us in reading GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-book/) We will discuss the book and how to apply it to your academic and personal goals. Register here: https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/grad_summer_book_club#.YtWjxHbMI2w
Self-Care for Leaders
July 20, noon–1 p.m., CASE, Room E422
Revisit and reflect on your goals for self-care. Explore how to create supportive teams and learn strategies to communicate more effectively with those you work with. Jennie Bernstein, PsyD, training and coaching program manager, and James Huffman, academic partnerships and outreach program manager from Health Promotion, will guide you through this two-part series tailored to graduate students. Lunch provided to those who RSVP by July 13.
July 19
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 by your academic unit two weeks before the exam on an examination report form.
During maintenance that affects the portals, such as the maintenance scheduled for Saturday, July 23, remember you can directly access Canvas and some other services that are provided through the portals.
Boulder County Public Health offers tips to help everyone keep themselves, friends, family and pets safe when temperatures rise.
When temperatures reach 105 degrees Fahrenheit or above, everyone is at risk of heat-related illness. Heat-related illness and heatstroke can be fatal if not treated appropriately.
Air conditioning is the most effective way to stay safe during a heat emergency. Fans are not effective at lowering body temperatures and keeping vulnerable populations safe.
Some members of our county’s communities face higher risks during high temperatures. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says athletes, people 65 and over, infants, children, individuals with chronic conditions, low-income households and outdoor workers are especially at risk of heat-related illness.
The Banich Lab is looking for healthy, right-handed, native English speakers to participate in research studies at CU Boulder looking at how information is removed from current thought.
Open to ages 18–40. The study will take place in Meunzinger over two visits, three hours total. Participants will be compensated $70 for the full completion of the study. Please email clearvalstudyset1@gmail.com if you are interested.
Researchers in the Neurophysiology of Movement Lab on Main Campus are conducting a study to evaluate the influence of light electrical stimulation on walking and balance capabilities in healthy older adults.
Subject requirements:
The study consists of two visits to CU Boulder Main Campus on separate days (approximately 2.5 hours each). In each session, we will apply mild electrical stimulation using a TENS device and assess subjects' walking and balance capabilities.
Compensation is $60 for the two visits. If interested, please contact Mohammed Alenazy for more information: moal4255@colorado.edu, 720-231-9767.
The 2022 CU Boulder Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology Student Symposium and 10-year anniversary reunion will take place on Friday, Aug. 12, at the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building.
We will have two exciting keynote speakers: Sammy Ramsey, a new BioFrontiers faculty member, and José Dinneny, a member of Bio-X at Stanford University. We will also hear short talks from IQ alumni and lightning talks from current IQ students. Additional conference programming will include a casual “sketch your science” poster session (anyone welcome to participate!), and a career panel that will feature CU and IQ alumni working in industry, government, and academia.
Visit the symposium website for more details. Please join us in highlighting interdisciplinary science, science education and science community!
This event is open to the public. Please RSVP by July 15 (RSVP link on website).
The CU Boulder campus is taking action on the recommendations from the Energy Master Plan and recently signed an investment grade audit (IGA) contract with McKinstry Essential, LLC.
McKinstry will conduct an investment grade audit of our facilities (19 were identified for this round) and deliver a project proposal that could include energy and water efficiency measures, renewable energy systems, electric vehicle technology, operations and maintenance and metering infrastructure improvements. The purpose of the IGA is to review our facilities and infrastructure and ultimately present an audit report and energy performance contract project proposal. The IGA contract was signed on June 28.
The intent is to create a replicable program to execute additional phases of energy performance contracts in order to meet our energy-use reduction goals from the Energy Master Plan.
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