Graduate students who are planning to graduate in December, don't miss these Oct. 1 deadlines.

Master's students––final deadline

Master's students who have not already done so must submit to the Graduate School a Candidacy Application for an Advanced Degree.  Applications follow a workflow process and must be approved by the academic department before they are directed to the Graduate School.

All graduate students

Graduate students must apply online to graduate through Buff Portal on the “apply for graduation” card in order to have the degree awarded in December. This is required even though there is no university-wide ceremony. Doctoral students must enter their dissertation title as part of the online graduation application; you may update the title through the portal until this date. This title will appear on your transcript after your degree is awarded.

You will receive compensation for your participation.  

The SHINE Lab at CU Boulder is recruiting participants for a cognitive neuroscientific study that aims to understand how people make decisions and judgments about online information and what makes them more susceptible to making errors. The study will use several surveys and computer-based tasks to study this. Brain activity and eye-tracking data will be collected during these tasks. If you do not want your data to be recorded, you may decide not to participate in this study at any time. 

Who can join this study:  

• Ages 18–65  
• Can speak and read English  
• Comfortable and familiar using computers  
• Comfortable and able to communicate via email, text or phone 

Who cannot join this study: 

• Those with history of seizures or epilepsy

Where:  
Center for Innovation and Creativity (CINC), Room 184E  
1777 Exposition Drive, Boulder, CO 80301  
(This room is inaccessible without a key; someone will meet you in the lobby.) 

Details: You will be asked to complete some surveys for $15, which will take no more than a half hour, and then to complete some computer tasks ($30), which will take no more than one hour.   

While there are no direct benefits to you as a participant, you will gain a unique look at how cognitive neuroscience research is conducted all while having fun! There may be some minor discomfort after wearing the fNIRS cap for more than two hours. As with any research, there is some possibility of risks that have not yet been identified. Please register for an experiment slot.

If you have any questions, please send them to: shine.lab@colorado.edu 

During campus portal maintenance, which is next scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 28, you can still access Canvas and some other campus services through direct links (e.g., canvas.colorado.edu).

Enterprise database maintenance on Saturday, Sept. 27, will cause two 5- to 15-minute outages between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. for many campus services, including MyCUInfo, Buff Portal, Canvas and more.

Struggling with anxiety or depression? Feeling down, hopeless, or stuck in a cycle of unproductive worry? Low-cost teletherapy and in-person therapy are available through CU Boulder’s Raimy Psychology Clinic for individuals residing in Colorado.

Raimy Clinic therapists can provide help coping with stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and other difficulties! Special low rates are available for all CU Boulder students, staff and faculty or family members of full-time staff or faculty. Openings for new clients are available now. Email or call now to start the intake process.

For more information, call our clinic coordinator, Pia Sellery, at 303-492-5177, email raimy@colorado.edu, or visit our website.

Researchers in the Language, Development, and Cognition Lab in the Department of Linguistics are conducting a study on early childhood numerical skills.

Who can participate?

Typically developing children between the ages of 2 years 6 months up to 6 years 0 months of age and their caregivers.

What happens?

Children will take part in four simple tasks. They will be asked to count as high as they can, place objects in a container, compare different numbers of dots on a screen, and remember pictures presented on a screen. Caregivers will complete a short demographic questionnaire.

What we’re studying

Early childhood numerical skills are very important for later academic performance in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math). So we are interested in learning about the mechanisms that support early number word knowledge and how children’s early numerical skills are related to factors such as gender, age and general cognitive ability.

Duration

The study is conducted in a single session lasting 45–50 minutes or less, but two 20–25 minute sessions may be required depending on the child. The study will be conducted in-person at the Language, Development, and Cognition (LDC) Lab on CU Boulder campus.

Compensation

We will give your child a book, sticker book or small toy valued at $15.

Interested?

Contact us at ldclab.boulder@colorado.edu.

IRB Protocol Number: 25-0114

Beginning the week of Sept. 22 and running through mid-November, the city of Boulder will be making improvements to the medians on Broadway between College Avenue and Marine Street. These improvements will include installing new irrigation piping, planting new vegetation and repairing some concrete components of the medians.

During this period, there may be one-lane closures on Broadway to accommodate the crews and their equipment. Closures will be limited to Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 or 4 p.m. The city will do everything possible to have both northbound lanes open for the morning commute and both southbound lanes open for the evening commute.

Do you have trouble falling asleep before 1 a.m.? Do you find it difficult to wake up early in the morning for your commitments? Does your high schooler have a hard time falling asleep before 1 a.m. and waking up early in the morning/for high school?

Researchers are looking for people with delayed sleep-wake phase disorder or people with late bedtimes, or healthy people with typical bedtimes.

You may be eligible for this study if you: 

• Are ages 16–30
• Have a diagnosis of delayed sleep-wake phase disorder or have late bedtimes after 1 a.m., an inability to fall asleep and difficulty awakening when required for school/work
• Are healthy with typical bedtimes and no sleep concerns

The study is 6.5 weeks long with six in-person visits and will include:

• Health screening
• Monitor on separate occasions your sleep, mood, eating times for one or two weeks and blood sugar levels while living at home
• Live in the sleep laboratory on two separate occasions for 48-66 hours (approximately 4.87 days in total):
• Blood and saliva sampling
• Reaction time, mood, and ability to think testing

Compensation is up to $1,750.

Go study details and apply. For more study details, email sleep.study@colorado.edu or call 303-735-1923.                        

IRB Protocol: 23-0285, Pathophysiology of Circadian Rhythm Delayed Sleep Wake Phase Disorder
 

The purpose of the Biomarkers of Peripheral Circadian Clocks in Humans study is to examine how light exposure and meal timing influences circadian rhythms in healthy people ages 17-40. 

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

Compensation is up to $4,093.

For more study details and information on how to apply, please complete this survey. If you have any other questions, please email sleep.study@colorado.edu and ask about the peripheral clock study.

Twenty new outdoor warning sirens have been installed across Boulder County and county officials will run a systemwide test at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 19.

The test will last approximately three minutes. During this time, residents will hear:

• Five short beeps.
• A voice message stating, “This is a test.”
• A siren tone.
• A closing voice message repeating, “This is a test.”

This test is the final part of the installation process to ensure the upgraded sirens are operating properly and ready to alert the community in the event of an emergency.

Join the Young Emerging Adult Research Study (YEARS) study at CU Boulder and CU Anschutz (IRB# 23-2067) to understand emotions. Earn $25 per hour (up to approximately $400 total) for up to three study session phases (one hour and 45 minutes). Must be 18-25 years, be able to attend in-person sessions, and have a personal history of bipolar disorder or no mental health history.

Apply now. Email years-study@colorado.edu or call 303-735-7547 with questions.

This year’s Culture Crawl T-shirt was designed by CU Boulder College of Music alum Andrea Kloehn. Pick up your tee on Oct. 8 at any of the 20 events, while supplies last.

This week, Apple released its newest operating system, macOS Tahoe (version 26). Because of several incompatibilities with a number of widely used applications at CU Boulder, OIT recommends waiting to upgrade Apple devices until key issues are addressed.

If you are at risk for Type 2 diabetes or heart disease and you’re a CU Health Plan member, the Omada program may be available to you at no cost. Learn more.