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The Dissertation Writing Retreat, sometimes called a boot camp, is a four-day workshop intended to introduce doctoral candidates to foundational concepts and best practices for managing and writing a dissertation.
The retreat takes place May 29 through June 1, and applications are due March 1. Learn more.
Do you know someone who has made significant contributions to making excellence inclusive at CU Boulder? Nominate them!
The Equity and Excellence Award recognizes students, staff and faculty who have successfully and effectively worked to promote the principles of making excellence inclusive in teaching, learning, higher education program management or leadership practices and execution.
Nominations are due March 2. Read the guidelines and submit an online nomination.
Center of the American West is now accepting entries for the 19th annual Thompson Awards for Western American Writing.
The contest is open to all CU Boulder program students, graduate and undergraduate. The entry deadline is Tuesday, March 20.
Prizes are $500 in each of four categories. Submit writing to any or all of the categories—fiction, memoir, poetry and creative non-fiction. The one content requirement is that entries touch upon some aspect of the American West, a subject rich and vast with possibility.
Visit the website for details and entry form and to read winning entries from past years. Then contact us with your questions at academics@centerwest.org or 303-735-1399.
Creativity is the antidote to destruction! Performance activists and cultural workers Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree use art as a tool for catalyzing action, cross-pollinating solutions and getting at the root of the unnatural disasters we’ve inherited.
In this interactive workshop that integrates performance and storytelling, Garcia and Penniman will share models of how creative interventions can be used to strengthen our movements for social and climate justice. Participants will interact with and contribute to a tapestry of thousands of hand-written stories, exercise the visionary muscle of the imagination and unleash collaborative power to build bridges of empathy across the walls that try to divide us.
Offered for CU Boulder students only. Cost is $25; lunch included. Reduced rates and scholarships available. Register by Feb. 8.
Sponsored by CU Environmental Center and CU Cultural Unity and Engagement Center.
Climate and Justice Workshop: Reshaping Reality through Cultural Activism
Sunday, Feb. 11, noon to 4 p.m.
Main Campus (location to be shared once registered)
The Cognitive Development Center in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience is looking for children age 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:
For more information, feel free to check out our Facebook page and website.
The Children's Auditory Perception Laboratory (ChAPL) is currently looking for a student with strong programming skills to join our team.
This lab is under the direction of Angela Bonino and is located in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Department. Our lab examines how the auditory system develops during childhood by using behavioral tasks. All experiments are controlled by MATLAB scripts that interface with a real-time processor to generate auditory stimuli.
Preference will be given to applicants with digital-signal processing experience and knowledge of real-time systems.
If you are interested, please contact Bonino at angela.bonino@colorado.edu. Please include a résumé.
Not sure yet what you’re doing this summer? Study abroad with CU faculty on a Global Seminar!
Application deadlines just extended for programs in the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland and South Africa, with many more programs and countries to choose from. Come by C4C S355 or email globalseminars@colorado.edu with questions or to open your application today!
March 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the Frankenstein novel. The bicentennial celebration explores a work which brings together the intersection of humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein on a dare when she was just 19 years old. Now’s your chance to win similar glory.
Submit a creative work as a response to her classic novel Frankenstein—a story, a film, a dance performance, visual art, a computer game—whatever medium works for you to explore some of the themes she touched on. Themes might include creation, scientific responsibility, gender, unintended consequences of innovations, science and religion, science and community, and resurrection. The winner will be announced and honored at the Frankenstein Bicentennial Event on March 13.
The winning works will be selected by a panel of judges.
Prizes:
Submit here by Feb. 16. For questions, email bebe.chang@colorado.edu.
This interactive 90-minute training is designed for staff and faculty on the CU Boulder campus. During the training, participants will engage in small- and large-group discussions to help identify examples of sexism in their lives or in an institution they participate in. They will also learn strategies for interrupting sexism.
Spring 2018 dates:
Monday, Feb. 12, 3:30–5 p.m. in UMC 457
Wednesday, March 14, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in UMC 457
Monday, April 16, 3:30–5 p.m. in UMC 457
The Women's Resource Center is offering two scholarships for the upcoming 2018–19 school year.
This $500 academic annual award is named for Cleo Estrada, who has devoted her life's work to the struggle for social justice for underrepresented communities. Estrada was a farmworker and first-generation student from the San Luis Valley who graduated from the University of Colorado with three degrees and worked as a counselor and student advocate at CU Boulder for 40 years.
The Dorothy Martin Fund provides $2,500 to a current, full-time undergraduate or graduate student. These awards will honor those who exemplify the ideals of Dorothy Martin, Professor Emerita, who was a faculty member in the psychology department at CU Boulder for 46 years and was instrumental in establishing the first CU Women’s Center in 1964. Martin’s ideals included activism and awareness concerning women’s issues and gender equity, openness to life and new experiences, and academic excellence.
The Buffs host the Utes this weekend on Friday and Sunday, so be sure to come to Coors Events Center to catch the action.
First, the men's basketball team takes on Utah at 7 p.m. Friday. Then come back to Coors Events Center at noon Sunday to watch the women's basketball team. Get your tickets at cubuffs.com/tickets.
Each summer, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival invites kids ages 6–18 to CU Boulder’s campus to study Shakespeare with CSF professionals.
Working in small groups, these students learn about Shakespeare by rehearsing, staging and performing a shortened play on the outdoor Mary Rippon Theatre (Sprites perform in the indoor Loft Theatre). Camp Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Sprites are a fabulous way for kids and teens to explore theater and Shakespeare in a creative and supportive environment.
In addition to acting training, students participate in master classes with special guests from the CSF company. Campers also work with a stage combat professional to learn the safe way to fight onstage. Tuition includes one ticket to attend a CSF performance. Scholarships available.
Camp Shakespeare: Session 1
Ages 9–13 will rehearse and perform Love's Labour's Lost
Ages 14–18 will rehearse and perform All's Well That Ends Well
May 29–June 25 | 9 a.m. to noon Monday–Friday (this session begins on a Tuesday)
Final performance: 6 p.m. Monday, June 25
Camp Shakespeare: Session 2
Ages 9–12 will rehearse and perform The Tempest
Ages 13–15 will rehearse and perform Richard III
Ages 16–18 will rehearse and perform Edward III
July 23–Aug. 10 | 1–5 p.m. Monday–Friday
Final performance: 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10
Shakespeare's Sprites, ages 6–9
Week 1: July 9–13 | 9 a.m. to noon
Week 2: July 16–20 | 9 a.m. to noon
Final performance: 11:30 a.m. Friday of each week
Camp Shakespeare tuition: $925 regular, $875 early bird (before March 1)
Shakespeare's Sprites tuition: $225 regular, $200 early bird (before March 1)
Use the faculty/staff coupon code "BUFFBARD18" to save 10 percent when registering! Call 303-735-1181 for registration, payment and scholarship questions.