The Student Engagement & Collaboration Area (SECA) in the University Memorial Center (UMC) is a space where Recognized Student Organizations (RSO) can come together, collaborate and prepare for events and projects.

It includes:

• Meeting rooms
• 55" monitors and computer hook-ups
• Prep/work rooms
• Lounge areas
• Whiteboard space
• Lockable storage cabinets

If your organization would like to reserve a room in the SECA lounge, visit the UMC online for all the information.

On Sept. 15, Instructor Galina Siergiejczyk will present an hour-long concert by Boulder chorus Planina: Songs of Eastern Europe preceded and followed by dialogue with students. 

The creative artistic performance, titled "Voices: Dimensions of Cultural Diversity and Critical Dialogue," aims to impart a meaningful cultural diversity experience for the first-year students at CU Boulder and to leverage resulting appreciation of the cultural legacy of multiethnic and multigenerational voices through inclusivity, open discussion and mindful action in their college experience. 

The performance is geared toward first-year students but open to the larger campus community. Please RVSP at grap@colorado.edu by Wednesday, Sept. 13.

Friday, Sept. 15, 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Kittredge Central Hall, room N114

On Sept. 15, CU Boulder and the Dairy Arts Center are pleased to present a screening of a rare 1918 silent film, The Yellow Ticket, accompanied by an original film score composed and performed live by klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals with jazz pianist Marilyn Lerner.

A panel discussion will follow the film, featuring Svigals and Learner alongside CU Boulder faculty members Yonatan Malin, Harumi Rhodes and David Shneer.

To view a trailer for the film and purchase tickets, please visit the Dairy Arts Center online. Current CU Boulder students who show their Buff OneCard at the box office on the day of the concert will receive a special $5 ticket!

To learn more about The Yellow Ticket film screening, please visit the event page. 

Friday, Sept. 15, 8 to 10:30 p.m.
Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St.

Photo credit: Chris Randle

Interested in learning a new language?

This fall, Anderson Language and Technology Center (ALTEC) is offering non-credit language courses in Spanish, Swahili, French and Italian.

The 10-week classes meet once a week in the evenings for two hours. Classes begin the week of Sept. 18. For more information or to register, please visit our website.

Save the date for 2017 Native Student Welcome! All CU Boulder Native students—including current, transfer and new undergraduates and graduate students—plus faculty, staff and local community members who support Native students on campus are welcome to attend.

Come be part of the CU Boulder Native community! We’ll have food, gifts and a lot of fun. No RSVP needed.

Friday, Sept. 15, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
CNAIS cottage, 1330 Grandview Ave.

Hosted by Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS) and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement (ODECE)

With the right tools and resources, starting your own business doesn’t have to be overwhelming. The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship demystifies entrepreneurship in a workshop for budding and current entrepreneurs. The Sept. 15–16 workshop is supported by a small grant from CU Boulder's Office for Outreach and Engagement.

After almost 20 years in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, carrying the LASP-built UltraViolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS), will conclude the final chapter of its remarkable story of exploration as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere. Join some of the Cassini team members at LASP, as we mark this significant milestone and celebrate one of NASA’s most successful missions ever. Wake Up with Cassini: The Grand Finale Event will feature NASA TV coverage, a couple brief live presentations and snacks and coffee.

DBER is a weekly seminar series that serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for faculty, staff, researchers and students interested in education research and course transformation to share their ideas and get feedback on their work.

These seminars bring together faculty and graduate students from roughly 45 different programs and departments across four schools/colleges. The average attendance is more than 20 people. In addition to being intellectually rich, these meetings also serve to create community among the many STEM education researchers on campus. All are welcome to attend.

Upcoming seminar:
"Development of Faculty Online Learning Communities"
Featuring Allie Lau, Melissa Dancy
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 3 to 4 p.m.
Porter Biosciences, room B121

Please see the weekly schedule.

The Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) movement espouses an innovative initiative to integrate the study and use of foreign languages in courses outside language departments. This workshop discusses the critical role of foreign languages in enhancing students’ global learning outcomes and identifying proven strategies for comprehensive internationalization at CU Boulder. It examines language not only as an outcome of internationalization but also as a driving force in an institution’s commitment to a broader holistic, dynamic system. CAS Event Thursday, Sept. 28, 4:30 p.m. Norlin Library, British and Irish Studies Room

The Diverse Musician's Alliance at the College of Music is looking for performers for its an annual Diverse Music Concert. All genres, styles and instruments are welcome. This is a great opportunity to showcase your talents!

The concert is at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at Grusin Hall in the Imig Music Hall. Each performer is allowed to perform for 5 to 8 minutes. Reception to follow the concert.

Sign up to play by Sept. 21.

Make Mondays special! Every Monday from 6 to 11 p.m., spend just $8 per person for two hours of unlimited bowling. Shoes and a fountain drink included. Come alone or with friends or family; everyone is welcome. This is the best deal!

Upcoming dates:
Mondays, Aug. 28 to Dec. 18
Except Sept. 4, Nov. 20

Check out all of The Connection’s weekly events | The Connection Bowling, Billiards & Games, UMC first floor

The first annual Bike Fest, hosted by the Environmental Center, will be a day of bike community, culture, fun and information for the students and affiliates of CU Boulder.

Come by and enjoy all sorts of free stuff, including beverages and tacos; get a custom printed T-shirt; talk to various campus and local groups that support sustainable transportation; demo an electric bike or listen to music. Stick around until dark to watch a screening of Filmed by Bike from Portland, Oregon.

The always popular used bike sale will start at 7 p.m., and we will be handing out entry numbers at 6 p.m. to those who are lined up. Bikes, paid for with cash or check only, cost either $100 or $160. They are all registered, include a high-quality U-lock and have been totally refurbished by our trained mechanics. The sale is first come, first served, so plan accordingly.

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2–9:30 p.m.
Farrand Field

There is no audition required and no experience necessary to join the University Men's Chorus and become part of the CU Boulder choral community. A non-auditioned group directed by Graduate Choral Conductor Craig Robertson, the Men's Chorus performs diverse and exciting music in formal concert as well as at athletics and other campus events throughout the semester. They have also planned a tour of performances at select Colorado high schools. The group rehearses from 4 to 5:15 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays each week. Enroll today in EMUS 1247 (or EMUS 3247 for upperclassmen). Please email craig.robertson@colorado.edu or stop by Macky Auditorium, room 102, with any questions.

On Sept. 7, CU’s Vietnam War Commemoration lecture series will feature William Adams—Vietnam veteran, Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities—will reflect on his experiences in the Mekong Delta in 1968–69.

The lecture, titled "Comradeship, Moral Injury, and the Legacy of the Vietnam War: The Need for the Humanities to Close the Gap between the Veterans and their Nation" is free and open to the public.

In a difficult reckoning with their experiences in war, Adams knows from his own experience, many veterans also steer by the treasured memory of comradeship in facing risk and danger. Adams has led initiatives to put the humanities to work in bridging the gap between the individual experiences of veterans and the nation’s involvement in a war that divided the nation, and may divide it still. He will also reflect on his recent return visit to Vietnam as a parable of memory and return.

Thursday, Sept. 7, 6:30 p.m.
Eaton Humanities, room 150

Photo credit: Fred Field, courtesy of Colby College

Interested in your mood and thoughts? Participate in a paid study on emotion and mood here on campus in the CU Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Earn up to $200 to participate in studies involving answering questions about your feelings and thoughts, watching brief films, playing computer games and keeping a log of your emotions and activities. The study includes two separate visits and pays $10 per hour in cash. (First visit is 2-3 hours; second is 4 hours). Additionally, there will be an option for paid follow-up phone interviews.

Please complete the screening survey for more information. If you have any questions, please email gruberpeplab@gmail.com or visit the PEP Lab website.