Showcase your art in the heart of campus! The Student Arts Program collects original art created by the CU Boulder student community and displays it throughout the UMC and the Rec Center. We are looking for original pieces in the following media: painting, drawing, sculpture, textile and photography/film/technology. Submit your piece by Jan. 31. Awards will be given for top submissions.

The Bard's Book Club is back! The club will meet once a month, January-May, to discuss each of the five plays in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2020 season. Conversations will be guided by CSF staff. Experience the joy of discovering and discussing the characters, language, plot complications and modern interpretations of Shakespeare (and non-Shakespeare) plays with fellow CSF fans. 

Seating is limited, so register today! Ages 18 and up.

Book Club meets monthly on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m. in the IBS Building at CU Boulder (1440 15th St).

Jan. 22: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Feb. 19: All's Well That Ends Well
March 18: The Odyssey
April 22: Coriolanus
May 13: Pericles

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The city of Boulder’s Parks and Recreation Department’s Forestry Division will perform tree work in the University Hill commercial area during winter break, Dec. 23 to Jan. 10, weather permitting. The University Hill commercial area generally is recognized as the area bordered by Pleasant Street and College Avenue between 13th Street and Broadway.

• Thirteen ash trees that are heavily infested with emerald ash borer (EAB) will be removed, as they have declined severely in health. The trees are considered dead/dying and pose a risk to public safety. 
• Five additional trees of various species will be removed as they are dead/dying and pose a risk to public safety.
• All removals are scheduled between 8 and 11 a.m. No street closures are anticipated, as work zones are small and will be coned and taped off for safety. 
• A tree replacement plan is being developed by the city’s Community Vitality Department, which maintains the commercial district streetscape in consultation with the city’s Forestry Division. The plan will be presented for consideration to the Boulder City Council-appointed members of the University Hill Commercial Area Management Commission.
• To meet the city’s urban tree canopy goals and guidelines, the plan will include a mix of tree replacement, landscaping and upgrades to the tree irrigation system to ensure the viability of the new trees. It is anticipated a plan draft will be ready for public review and comment in early 2020. Replanting will likely occur as weather allows in spring or early summer 2020.

Learn more about the city’s EAB Plan. Specific information regarding temporary lane closures or traffic detours is posted the week prior to the City Cone Zones map.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2020 season is full of sea voyages, magical potions, mysterious disappearances (fantastical reunions) and other epic adventures.

In this 10-week after-school class for ages 8-12, we will introduce students to four Shakespeare plays from CSF’s upcoming season: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus and Pericles, culminating in a final showing of short scenes on the last day of class. 

Students will learn about Shakespearean verse, build characters and have tons of fun along the way, of course! This class is a fun and engaging way to build language and performance skills, work with other kids as part of a team and connect the ideas and conflicts in Shakespeare's world to our own. Open to students of all experience levels and abilities.

Is it possible to improvise scenes and plays in the style of Shakespeare? Absolutely! 

In this 10-week after-school class, teens will learn about Shakespearean language, verse and themes while building improvisational skills in order to spontaneously create theater that could have been written by the Bard himself. This class culminates in an informal showing for friends and family on the last day of class. Improvised Shakespeare is a fun and engaging way to develop language and performance skills, build confidence and work with other teens as part of a team. 

Taught by Royce Roeswood, one of the founding members of Makeshift Shakespeare with over 20 years of improvisational theater experience. Open to students of all experience levels and abilities (whether you're new to improv and Shakespeare or have been performing for years).

Join our research study on light exposure and the body clock. This study is about how typical artificial indoor lighting versus a simulation of a natural sunset influences the timing of the human body clock. The body clock controls 24-hour patterns of physiology such as sleep and hormone release. This work will have important implications for determining how implementation of new lighting technology can be used to promote sleep. We are looking for healthy men and women, ages 18-45, to participate in a study lasting approximately 15 days, consisting of wearing an activity tracking watch at home and two laboratory visits of about seven hours each at the CU Boulder Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory. Compensation up to $200. For study details, email sleep.study@colorado.edu and ask about the Simulated Sunset study.

Are you aged 18-35 and healthy? CU Boulder is seeking participants for a research study investigating how sleep loss affects decision-making and your body’s ability to digest and process the foods you eat. Participants must be healthy adults, ages 18-35, who normally sleep less than 6.5 hours per night during the school/work week. Participants will complete six laboratory visits at the CU Boulder Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory and six weeks of at-home sleep monitoring. Four of the visits will last between 0.5-2.5 hours, and two of the visits will last about one day. Compensation up to $750. Get study details: https://redcap.ucdenver.edu/surveys/?s=3PHMAJRHMP For questions email the Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory at sleep.study@colorado.edu

The Cognitive Development Center in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience is looking for children ages birth to 13 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. https://www.colorado.edu/cognitivedevelopment/help-us-explore-cognitive… 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 (http://www.facebook.com/CognitiveDevelopmentCenter/) and website (http://www.colorado.edu/cognitivedevelopment/).

Don’t forgot to return your textbook rentals to the CU Book Store before you leave for winter break! 

Textbooks rented for fall 2019 are due by 6 p.m. on Dec. 20. If you purchased your books and want to sell them back, the CU Book Store will be buying textbooks Dec. 14–20 at the store in the UMC and locations throughout campus. 

See website for hours and locations.

The Bursar's Office will close at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, for a staff event. The office will resume normal business hours on Thursday, Dec. 12, opening at 9 a.m.

The Office of Financial Aid (including Scholarship Services and Student Employment) will close at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, for a staff event. The office will resume normal business hours on Thursday, Dec. 12, opening at 9 a.m.

We invite undergraduate students from across campus to apply for the Responsible Computing Fellows program for spring 2020. Students who have existing interest or curiosity about ethics in computing and who are enrolled in a computing-related course in any discipline in the spring 2020 semester are encouraged to apply.

Weekly meetings (not a class you must register for) will involve seminar-style discussions that connect current events and ethical issues to the content of computing classes at CU and will also engage the broader community with guest speakers and open events.

In addition to the title of Responsible Computing Fellow (a great résumé line for potential employers), students will receive a $500 fellowship for their participation in the program over the course of the semester.

Selection criteria will focus on interest, enthusiasm and ensuring a diversity of students who represent different backgrounds and relationships to computing. 

Pain Research: Innovative Strategies with Marijuana (PRISM)

In this study, we want to understand how edible cannabinoids (e.g., THC and CBD) impact health and symptoms of chronic low back pain. To better understand how varying levels of cannabinoids in the body are related to your health, we ask you to provide blood samples.

You will be compensated up to $220 for your participation.

You may be eligible to participate in this study if you:

• Are 21–70 years old
• Have used cannabis at least once in your life
• Experience chronic low back pain
• Have not used cannabis to treat your pain but are interested in trying edibles to manage your pain

This study involves:

• 1 appointment scheduled at our lab facility in Boulder
• 1 appointment scheduled in our mobile lab facility (comes to your street)
• 4 small blood samples
• Brief and confidential cognitive tasks and questionnaires

Fill out our survey here. If you are interested or have any other questions, please contact the CU Change research lab at 303-492-0288 or prism.custudy@gmail.com.

During the maintenance window from 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, to 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, Campus Solutions, MyCUInfo, MyCUBoulder, Buff Portal and some of the resources accessed through these services will be unavailable. 

Services that are linked through the portals but not otherwise dependent upon them will still be accessible through direct links. Maintenance will affect systems with real-time data.

Learn more and see the list of affected services.