Buff Bulletin Board

The Buff Bulletin Board, a listing of campus announcements, is a service of Campus Communications.

 

Staff, faculty involvement opportunity: Professional support network for outreach

Are you doing outreach and engagement work? Please join the Outreach and Engagement Professionals Network at CU Boulder! This network seeks to enhance collaboration, share best practices and increase professional development opportunities for CU Boulder staff or faculty who manage outreach programs and community partnerships.

Through special programs, networking events and staff awards, we offer the chance to learn from each other, hear about current research and resources and develop capacity as outreach professionals. 

If any part of your role involves community outreach, this group is for you! Email alyssa.willet@colorado.edu for more information or visit the outreach website for more information.  

Open, funded opportunities for undergraduate research, creative projects

undergraduate researchers

UROP is excited to announce open, funded opportunities for undergraduate research, scholarly and creative projects led by some of CU Boulder’s most innovative faculty mentors.

With more than 30 team projects in a wide range of disciplines, students have many opportunities to connect this summer and next academic year.

Explore projects and follow up on opportunities by visiting the UROP website.

Adults ages 35–55 needed for paid study on hearing, cardiovascular disease

Volunteers are needed for a study at the Hearing and Epidemiology and Research Diagnostics Laboratory investigating potential effects of cardiovascular health on the auditory system. 

We are recruiting healthy adults ages 35–55. We are specifically individuals who do not have any of the following: tobacco smoking, Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol or use of cholesterol-lowering medication, high blood pressure or use of blood-pressure-lowering medication.

Participants will receive a comprehensive hearing evaluation and physical examination with blood draw. Participants are compensated $15 per hour for up to five hours of testing. 

Interested? Email Jenny Masters at heardlab@colorado.edu or call 303-735-7127 to see if you qualify or for more information. 

Receive a $1,000 stipend for 2019–20 Course OER Adoption Initiative

University Libraries is pleased to invite CU Boulder educators to apply by July 1 to participate in a Course OER Adoption Initiative. All educators with academic year 2019–20 paid appointments, including instructors/senior instructors, temporary/permanent faculty and graduate part-time teaching instructors, are invited to apply.

Selected participants will adopt an open educational resource (OER) and integrate it into an existing spring 2020 undergraduate course. Integrating the OER may result in course materials costs savings to students, afford the educator new pedagogical possibilities and inspire the educator’s thoughtful redesign of content sequencing or course assignments.

Participants will be awarded a $1,000 stipend upon completing their successful OER adoption and course integration and submitting a portfolio by May 31, 2020, that documents the integration and evaluates the course. 

Learn more and apply by July 1, 2019.

Housing Master Plan survey reminders to be sent Monday

The CU Boulder Housing Master Plan (HMP) project team, in conjunction with a third-party consultant, will send out reminder emails on Monday, May 6, to faculty and staff who have not yet taken the HMP survey. Initial emails inviting all faculty and staff to participate in the survey via personalized email link were sent out on Monday, April 29. Those who have not yet taken the survey should expect to see an email on May 6 with a from line listing CU Boulder Campus Master Plan and the email address info@baseline.mail.campuslabs.com. Campus Labs is a third-party vendor sending the survey. The survey takes about 10 to 15 minutes to complete. All information that you provide is strictly confidential, and no individual responses will be identified. If you have any questions about the survey, please email mplan@colorado.edu. The HMP survey will provide the project team with invaluable data sets about the campus community’s current housing experiences, as well as preferences for future housing that will help shape the campus for years to come. The Housing Master Plan aims to set a vision for the future of on- and off-campus housing, and will examine providing students, faculty and staff with increased housing flexibility and choices. Broad participation in this survey will help ensure a Housing Master Plan that reflects a diverse range of campus perspectives and needs.

Boulder campus summer hours begin May 9

UMC with summer flowers in a garden bed nearby

Summer hours for the Boulder campus will be 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., effective Thursday, May 9, through Saturday, August 17. Thursday, May 9, is the day of spring commencement.

On Sunday, Aug. 18, the Boulder campus will return to its regular operating hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Some departments maintain their own unique hours of operation. Please follow your department's schedule.

Apply by May 20: Associate director of network engineering and operations

The CU Boulder Office of Information Technology welcomes applications for an associate director of network engineering and operations. 

This individual has primary accountability for the ongoing delivery, operations, support and continual improvement of CU Boulder’s network infrastructure, an infrastructure vital and central to CU Boulder’s ability to successfully deliver on its three strategic imperatives: 

  • Shape tomorrow’s leaders
  • Be the top university for innovation
  • Positively impact humanity

The associate director will work closely and collaboratively with other OIT service managers, the campus community, peer institutions, the city and county of Boulder, and partner organizations such as the Front Range GigaPop, to understand their requirements and ensure network services continuously serve our stakeholders. 

This position will set the direction for day-to-day decisions regarding the business-critical network services delivered to our customers. It will also develop policies, procedures, and operating guidelines for the standardization, maintenance and protection of our central networking systems in alignment with OIT service management processes. The associate director will create and monitor budgets and manage internal projects, and you will supervise and manage a team of professional network engineers.

What we require

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. A combination of education and/or relevant experience may substitute for the degree on a year-for-year basis.
  • Five years of experience in the management of mission-critical/high-availability networks, both wired and wireless, services in a large, complex enterprise IT environment including planning, formulating and managing complex budgets.
  • Three years of experience directly supervising a team of three or more IT professionals.

How to apply

Non-CU Boulder employees: Apply at colorado.edu/jobs.

Current CU Boulder employees:

  • Log in to MyCUInfo portal.
  • Navigate to the CU Resources tab.
  • Select Business Tools.
  • Select the CU Boulder Jobs tile.
  • Search "Associate Director, Network Engineering & Operations" or "17837."

Free Improv + Science Workshop for CU students, high schoolers

collage of students participating in workshop

Are you interested in learning about improv? Do you like environmental science?

Join the Improv + Science Workshop at the CU Museum of Natural History! The workshop takes place from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 11. 

About the workshop

The workshop will bring together local high school students and CU Boulder undergraduate/graduate students studying environmental science to learn about improvisational theater and how the principles of improv can foster communication and collaboration in science. Students will learn and perform improvisational theater games and scenes in the context of environmental science.

Improv requires the communication skills (e.g., listening, responding, storytelling) that are beneficial to engaging with others in science, particularly in collaborating to develop research ideas. We believe this is an innovative way to teach young people and have them practice these skills as they learn about environmental science topics. And…it’s fun!

Register now

Sign up by Monday, May 6, to claim your spot! 

High school student sign-up | CU Boulder student sign-up

For more information or questions, contact Megan Littrell at megan.littrell@colorado.edu.
 

For parents: Cognitive Development Center offers fun research projects for kids

The Cognitive Development Center in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience is looking for children ages birth to 12 years old who are interested in playing games that will help teach us about self-control, language and cognitive strategies. 

A visit, scheduled at your convenience, lasts about 60 minutes. Babysitting is available for siblings. Parents are compensated for travel and kids receive a fun prize.

To sign up, please do one of the following:

  • Visit our website.
  • Email cogdevctr@colorado.edu with your child’s name, gender, date of birth, and parent contact information (address, phone number, email address).
  • Call us at 303-492-6389.

For more information, feel free to check out our Facebook page and website

Find your power, find your force: Art therapy workshop May 22

Join Human Resources for the Find Your Power, Find Your Force art therapy workshop on May 22. 

We will bring awareness to this important part of us through guided meditation, and bring it to life giving it its own personality by applying art therapy. You will receive tools to access your power and force and will be able to take your drawing to stick in your wallet, put on your fridge or just to see what it looks like. It can be a helpful tool to remind us when we need to feel solid, strong, confident, and empowered. Come ready to learn and have fun tapping into your creative side.

If you go

Wednesday, May 22
12-1:30 p.m.
UMC 425
RSVP now

Apply for the CU Employee Leadership and Management Certificate summer term

The CU Boulder Department of Human Resources (HR) and Engineering Management Program (EMP) have partnered to offer a leadership and management graduate-level certificate for employees. The certificate was developed to help our current and future leaders enhance and refine their leadership skills, and learn new ways to measure and enhance organizational effectiveness. 

CU Boulder employees may use their tuition benefit for the certificate courses.  The application deadline for the summer 2019 term is Monday, May 20. Learn more and apply now.

Service leadership experience for students: Be an Alternative Breaks site leader

The Volunteer Resource Center is recruiting students to serve as site leaders for the CU Alternative Beaks program. This leadership opportunity is a practical application of leadership principles and provides students with a variety of skills and important knowledge to be successful leaders. We are seeking students interested in having an impact on social and environmental issues that impact communities in the United States through service. It is free to site leaders to participate and we provide training on planning and implementing service projects, leading peers, budgeting, group facilitation, education and reflection, risk management and much more. Site leaders will plan and implement a service experience for eight to 10 CU Boulder students for spring 2020. The site leader role is a seven-month commitment from October 2019 through April 2020. Site leaders can expect to spend 2-4 hours per week planning and organizing trip logistics.

Share by April 28: Your feedback on Graduate School dean finalists

Please send your feedback on the two finalists for the Graduate School dean to gsdeansearch@colorado.edu by Sunday, April 28. Ann Schmiesing, senior vice provost for academic resource management, to whom the dean position will report, will review all feedback beginning the week of April 29 and is expected to name the new graduate dean the week of May 6–10, with a start date of July 1, 2019.

Information on candidates Bud Coleman and E. Scott Adler is posted on the graduate dean search committee webpage.

Transportation Master Plan survey email issue resolved

People walk on the sidewalk near a Buff Bus

A technical issue related to email distribution of the Transportation Master Plan survey invitations on Monday led to the emails failing to send to a small portion of students, faculty and staff.

New invitation links are currently being resent to all who did not receive the survey on Monday, as well as reminders for those who received the invitation but have not yet taken the survey.

If you do not receive an invitation to take the survey today, please email mplan@colorado.edu directly so the issue can be resolved.

The TMP survey remains open through Thursday, May 2.