Want to help find ways to reduce the financial burden of course materials and textbooks on students and transition the university toward more affordable course materials? The Open Educational Resources Advisory Committee will examine national trends centered in the use of open educational resources (OER) and make recommendations to the provost regarding their best use at CU Boulder, serving as a catalyst to promote educational innovation at CU Boulder. Faculty, staff or students can volunteer to serve on the committee, or can nominate others, by submitting names to oercommittee@colorado.edu. Nominations will be accepted through April 9.

The Buff OneCard office will be closed over spring break, March 26–30, for an office remodel. We will have limited services available by appointment. Please email boc@colorado.edu or call 303-492-0355 with any questions.

Are you a CU Boulder PhD student interested in learning and carrying out community-based research?

CU Engage is announcing details about the 2018–19 Community-Based Research (CBR) Graduate Fellowship. The online application will open on March 28 and close at 5 p.m. Monday, April 23. Apply here.

Doctoral students who will be in their second to sixth years during the 2018–19 academic year are eligible to apply.

Do you know someone at CU Boulder who is an advocate for women? Or a department that continually works to improve the campus climate? 

Nominations of students, faculty, staff, departments or units are currently being accepted for the Chancellor’s Committee for Women (CCW) Advocacy Awards. The awards recognize the efforts of those who tirelessly work toward building and advocating for a more inclusive, gender-equitable climate at CU Boulder. 

Submit nominations by Tuesday, April 3.

The CCORE Diversity Service Recognition Awards recognize CU Boulder students, staff and faculty who have successfully and effectively worked to promote the principles of inclusive excellence by implementing diversity-related activities in teaching and learning, higher education program management and leadership development. This award is to recognize any individual, group or department that has supported, recognized and advocated for efforts that promote diversity, multiculturalism and social justice within the campus community. 

Recipients will be chosen by a selection panel composed of members of CCORE and will be recognized at the Equity and Excellence Celebration. Submit nominations by Tuesday, April 3.

This well-loved stuffed animal recently turned up in a bag of unclaimed lost and found items from the CU Rec Center. If the bunny is yours, please email boulder.today@colorado.edu, and we'll connect you with the person who found it!

Students: Submit your best photos of earth features and natural landscapes!

The Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library is pleased to announce our fourth annual photo contest. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students, this photo contest is designed to highlight student photography depicting earth features and natural landscapes.

Photos will be judged on:

• Artistic merit, composition and aesthetics
• How well an earth feature, process or landscape is captured
• The short, well-written description of the photograph that explains the earth feature or natural landscape being depicted (one to three sentences)

The contest is open to any CU Boulder student, and students can submit up to three photos. Submit by 11:59 p.m. Friday, April 13.

The winner of the contest will be announced on May 1. The winning photograph will be printed, framed and hung in the library. Runners-up will be temporarily displayed in the Earth Sciences & Map Library during the 2018-19 school year.

More information and submission instructions can be found here (log in with your IdentiKey).

Do you fear public speaking? Feel highly anxious in social situations? Have no major health problems? Ages 18-25?

You may be eligible to participate in a paid study at CU Boulder.

Participation includes completing questionnaires, social tasks and a brief intervention for social and public-speaking anxiety. Participants will earn $32 for completing the two-part, four-hour study. 

To sign up for the study, please select experiment No. 1022 on the paid Sona website or email intervention-study@colorado.edu for more information. 

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. 
 

Students can see a free movie showing of either Black Panther or Love, Simon at the Century Boulder Theatre at the 29th Street Mall. Black Panther will begin at 9:20 p.m., and Love, Simon will begin at 10:20 p.m. 

Students should bring their Buff OneCard and arrive at the theater 30 minutes before the show time to receive their free ticket.

The No. 5-ranked Colorado Buffaloes men's lacrosse team will take on Arizona State (ranked No. 16) at 7 p.m. Friday, March 16, for their home-opener at Kittredge North Field. The Buffs are an impressive 5-1 so far this season, so it is sure to be an exciting one. Come out and support!

The Emotive Computing Lab at CU Boulder is looking for participants for a study of eye movements during reading. 

You are eligible to participant in this research study if you:

• Are at least 18 years of age
• Are a CU Boulder student
• Speak English
• Do not have significant and uncorrected vision impairments

The study contains two parts: 

1. A visit to the lab will be scheduled at a mutually convenient time (lasting one hour and fifteen minutes) for a $20 Amazon gift card.
2. A week later, we will email you a follow-up questionnaire to complete remotely online (lasting 30 minutes) for a $10 Amazon gift card.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Julie Gregg at eyetrackingandreading@gmail.com for more information.

If you see a St. Patrick’s Day themed golf cart on campus, you might be able to catch a ride to class on a Lucky Lift! Lucky Lifts is similar to Cash Cab, where students have the opportunity to answer trivia questions and win prizes while getting a ride around campus. Be on the lookout for Lucky Lifts Wednesday through Friday.

Stop by the Health Hut near the Euclid underpass from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, to win St. Patrick’s Day prizes and get tips for staying safe on a night out.

Where in the world do you want to go? 

The Fulbright program is the U.S. government’s flagship program for international educational exchange, and CU Boulder is a top-producing institution for U.S. Fulbright student grants. 

Come to Norlin Library, room S-421, for an informational meeting to learn how you can apply for a Fulbright grant to do overseas study/research or to be an English teaching assistant overseas. These grants are for any student who will have at least a bachelor's degree by the time the grant starts and won’t yet have completed a PhD. 

All meetings are the same; choose the most convenient for you. Email deborah.viles@colorado.edu for more details.

Upcoming meetings:
Monday, March 12, 4–5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 4, 4:30–5:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 24, 5–6 p.m.