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For parents: Paid research study for children on hearing

The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting children between 2-7 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how children hear. During the course of this study, your child will sit in a sound-proof booth with an examiner and will listen to sounds presented over a loudspeaker or over earphones. To find out what your child can hear, we will teach him/her to make a response to a certain sound signal. These responses will be play activities like putting a toy in a bucket or adding a block to a tower. We may use a mechanical toy whenever he/she responds to the sound. The signals will be presented in quiet and in various background sounds. The sounds we use are not loud. You will be able to sit inside the booth with your child or watch your child through an observation window. As part of this study, your child will also receive a middle ear screening at no cost to you. If at any time we discover any important hearing-related findings, we will report those findings to you and provide you with contact information for a complete hearing evaluation. Two visits to the laboratory are required. Each visit lasts about one hour. You will receive $10 per hour and we will pay your parking, if you drive to the lab. If you are interested please email childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252. The principal investigator for this research study is Angela Yarnell Bonino of the Department Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. All testing will be completed in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences building on the campus of the University of Colorado Boulder.

For parents: Paid research study for children on noise and reading

The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting children between 5-7 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how noise affects children’s ability to read. During the testing, your child will sit in a sound-treated room and will listen to sounds presented over headphones. While listening to these noises, your child will read brief reading passages aloud. At the end of the passage your child will be asked to retell the story and answer comprehension questions. Three visits to the laboratory are required. Each visit lasts about one hour. You will receive $10 per hour and we will pay for your parking, if you drive to the lab. If you are interested please email childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252. The principal investigator for this research study is Angela Yarnell Bonino of the Department Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. All testing will be completed in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences building on the campus of the University of Colorado Boulder.

For parents: Paid research study for children on noise and reading

The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting children between 5-7 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how noise affects children’s ability to read. During the testing, your child will sit in a sound-treated room and will listen to sounds presented over headphones. While listening to these noises, your child will read brief reading passages aloud. At the end of the passage your child will be asked to retell the story and answer comprehension questions. Three visits to the laboratory are required. Each visit lasts about one hour. You will receive $10 per hour and we will pay for your parking, if you drive to the lab. If you are interested please email childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252. The principal investigator for this research study is Angela Yarnell Bonino of the Department Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. All testing will be completed in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) building on the campus of the University of Colorado Boulder.

Participate in a paid study on mood and emotion

Pep Lab illustration of head and heart
Interested in your moods 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 each (first visit is 2 to 3 hours; second is 4 hours). There is an option for paid follow-up phone interviews in addition. Please fill out the very brief survey to apply: https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6Rs6wMhIFnKePjL If you have questions please contact us at gruberpeplab@colorado.edu or visit our website: http://www.gruberpeplab.com.

Donate CU swag, volunteer at Denver Pride Fest June 16 to 17

A pride flag with the sun behind it
The University of Colorado—all 4 campuses—is an official sponsor of Denver PrideFest, June 16-17, 2018. Denver PrideFest is one of the largest pride events in the nation. The Gender and Sexuality Center invites you to donate department/CU swag to our office in the Center for Community, N450, to be given out at the CU booth. Please drop off items by Thursday, June 14. We also encourage you to participate and volunteer for the event.

For parents: Paid research study on children and hearing

The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting children between 2 and 7 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how children hear. During the course of this study, your child will sit in a soundproof booth with an examiner and will listen to sounds presented over a loudspeaker or over earphones. To find out what your child can hear, we will teach him/her to make a response to a certain sound signal. These responses will be play activities like putting a toy in a bucket or adding a block to a tower. We may use a mechanical toy whenever he/she responses to the sound. The signals will be presented in quiet and in various background sounds. The sounds we use are not loud. You will be able to sit inside the booth with your child or watch your child through an observation window. As part of this study, your child will also receive a middle-ear screening at no cost to you. If at any time we discover any important hearing-related findings, we will report those findings to you and provide you with contact information for a complete hearing evaluation. Two visits to the laboratory are required. Each visit lasts about one hour. You will receive $10 per hour, and we will pay your parking if you drive to the lab. If you are interested, please email childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252. The principal investigator for this research study is Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D, Department Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. All testing will be completed in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) building on Main Campus.

For parents: Cognitive Development Center offers fun research projects for kids

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: • visit our website: https://www.colorado.edu/cognitivedevelopment/help-us-explore-cognitive…, or • email cogdevctr@colorado.edu with your child’s name, gender, date of birth and parent contact information (address/phone number/email address), or • call us at (303) 492-6389 For more information, feel free to check out our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/CognitiveDevelopmentCenter/) and website (www.colorado.edu/cognitivedevelopment/).

Take the State of Education survey

The Education Leadership Council, a nonpartisan, multi-stakeholder council is working to look at the state of Colorado’s education system, ask the hard questions and create a level playing field for every student.

ELC is developing a unified, nonpartisan blueprint for the state’s educational system, from early childhood through the workforce. Its working to help every student have the opportunity and tools for success, fuel the state’s growing workforce and become a national and global leader in education.  To do that, the ELC needs your insight.

Adults needed for a hearing research study

The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting adults between 18 and 30 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how children hear. During the testing, you will sit in a sound-treated room and will listen to sounds presented over a speaker or through headphones. You will be asked to indicate when you hear sounds by selecting a picture on a computer monitor, raising your hand or repeating speech. The sounds we use are not loud. One visit to the laboratory is required. The visit lasts one hour. You will receive $10 per hour. If you are interested please email childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252. The principal investigator for this research study is Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. All testing will be completed in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) building on Main Campus.

Adults needed for study on tobacco smoking, auditory function

Volunteers are needed for a study at the Hearing and Epidemiology and Research Diagnostics Laboratory investigating potential effects of tobacco smoking on the auditory system. We are recruiting individuals ages 18-45 who have been actively smoking tobacco (cigarettes) for at least one year and do not use other recreational drugs, including cannabis. Participants are compensated $15 per hour for up to five hours of testing. Interested? Email Kailey Durkin at heardlab@colorado.edu or call 303-735-7127 to see if you qualify or for more information.

Human Resources closure June 22

Human Resources will be closed on Friday, June 22 for a staff retreat. Human Resources includes:

  • Compensation and Position Management
  • Diversity and Inclusive Excellence
  • Employee Relations
  • The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program
  • HR Operations (Records, I-9 Office, Employment Verification)
  • HR Service Center
  • Organization and Employee Development
  • Talent Acquisition

We will reopen at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, June 25, and respond promptly to voicemail and email messages. We apologize for the inconvenience.  

Buff OneCard office closure

A woman holds a Buff OneCard

The Buff OneCard office will be closed from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30, for an office training. We will open again at 1:30 pm. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Save the date for OpenCon Sept. 7: Open research, more affordable textbooks

Bethany Wiggin (yakubova-studio)

Are you a student wanting more affordable textbooks? A librarian seeking more information on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data? Are you a professor curious about open research and interested in supporting more affordable textbooks for your students? Then the OpenCon conference Sept. 7, 2018, in Boulder is for you. Save the date and join University Libraries for this event.

This full day event will include a keynote from Dr. Bethany Wiggin, co-founder of DataRefuge, an open access panel, and a training session on advocating for Open Educational Resources on your campus.