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

 

Love listening to music? Participate in our research study

Do you love listening to music? Are you curious about what music others are listening to? The Brain Music Lab at CU Boulder is currently recruiting participants for a research study investigating music listening, sharing and enjoyment behaviors in young adults (IRB # 24-0658).

Participating involves completing an online survey, followed by one visit to the Brain Music Lab (Roser ATLAS building) on CU Boulder’s Main Campus where you will listen to music, answer questions on a computer and have a short interview about your experience.

The total expected time commitment is two hours. Individuals who complete the study will be compensated with a $20 Amazon gift certificate and be entered in a drawing for an additional $50 Amazon gift certificate.

To participate, you must be between the ages of 18–25 and have normal or corrected-to-normal hearing.

Interested in participating or have any questions? Please email Sophia Mehdizadeh (some4995@colorado.edu) or complete this form.

Mental Health First Aid trainings coming up

Mental Health First Aid training is designed to help individuals assist someone experiencing mental health or substance use concerns or crises. Participants will learn about risk factors and warning signs, engage in experiential activities, discuss professional and self-help resources and practice a five-step strategy to provide support. Mental Health First Aid for higher education provides tailored information for college and university communities.

Sign up for upcoming trainings!

Expect brief outages to services like Canvas Jan. 7 and 8

Enterprise database changes on Tuesday, Jan. 7, and Wednesday, Jan. 8, will cause a 5- to 15-minute outage each day between 6 and 6:30 p.m. The outages will affect multiple campus services, including MyCUInfo, Buff Portal, Canvas and others.

Participants needed: Research study on sleep and circadian rhythms

We are looking for healthy males and females, ages 17-40 to participate in a study at the CU Boulder Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory.

  • The study is seven weeks long with eight in-person visits.
  • Participants live in the sleep laboratory on two separate occasions for 7.7 days (15.4 days total)

Compensation up to $4,093. Get study details and apply.

Docker users will have to buy licenses

Docker, a platform used to build and share containerized apps, has updated its subscription service agreement to prohibit free use by members of an educational organization who are not enrolled students.

Effective Dec. 10, 2024, CU Boulder faculty, staff, researchers and other non-students who download a Docker product for the first time or upgrade an existing installation will need to purchase a license for the product(s) they use.

Currently, OIT cannot offer Docker products at discounted rates. If you're relying on a free offering, we recommend exploring other free alternatives, such as Podman or Rancher.

For additional information, see the full OIT news story. If you have questions, please email OIT's Software Asset Management team at oitsoftware@colorado.edu.

Summer 2025 research experiences for undergraduates: Beyond Boulder

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With deadlines mostly in January and February, now is the time to start looking at opportunities for summer 2025 and find the best fit for you. Programs are offered in most fields of study (not just STEM). And most programs provide funding to accepted participants!

Explore opportunities for summer 2025.

Join paid research on effects of menopause on vascular health

The purpose of this study is to learn more about how changes in vascular function and fat gain during menopause may contribute to the increased heart disease risk in women.

Primary inclusion criteria:

  • Females ages 20–50 years
  • Non-smoking
  • No current use of hormonal contraceptives

Compensation up to $800 provided.

Interested? Complete the optional eligibility survey.

Do you use the Alertus mobile safety app? Here’s an important update

If you are an existing user of the Alertus mobile safety app, you should know that as of Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, the app will be discontinued and replaced with a new safety app called AlertAware Mobile.

Some CU Boulder faculty and staff members may have used the app as a supplemental notification for CU alerts and to communicate with building managers.

If you’re an existing Rave Guardian mobile safety app user, these changes do not impact you. 

Here are five reasons to download the Rave Guardian mobile safety app, which also provides an additional way to receive CU alerts.

If you wish to continue to use the Alertus app, you will need to download the new AlertAware Mobile app. Download the iOS version or the Android version.

Chronic back pain? Participants needed for research study

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The Pain Lab at CU Boulder, affiliated with the Institute of Cognitive Science, is seeking participants ages 21–70 for a research study with non-invasive wearable sensors.

You may be eligible if you have experienced back pain for the last three-plus months. Participants will be compensated up to $360.

If you're interested, fill out the eligibility screening form. We will contact you regarding your eligibility.

Get paid to participate in research to support astronaut training

Please consider participating in our study, Advancing and Validating Galvanic Disorientation Simulation Trainer.

In this experiment, you will wear a galvanic vestibular stimulation headset. This system senses how you are tilted and stimulates your vestibular system with small amounts of electrical current through electrodes based behind your ears, near your forehand and back of your head. The system is intended to make you feel like an astronaut returning from spaceflight. During the experiment, you will perform tasks like reporting how you feel you are tilted, standing balance, walking or using a joystick to keep yourself upright in a chair.

You will be paid for the time you spend participating in this study.

If you have questions, would like additional information or are interested in participating, please respond via email. The principal investigator for this study is Torin Clark. You must be 18–65 years old to participate in this study.