After noon on Friday, June 30, and through the morning of Wednesday, July 5, call the Operations Control Center at 303-492-5522 to report any facility-related issue. You won’t have the ability to submit a service request online.

Facilities Management is launching its new AssetWorks integrated work management system (IWMS). This new system will replace the current work management system (FAMIS), which has been serving the campus since 2003.

The new system has three complementary components, AiM (which is the back end management system), ReADY Request (which is the customer-facing self service portal) and Go Mobile (which is the mobile platform that technicians can use from anywhere).

This change may impact building proctors, managers and campus customers who interact with Facilities Management and submit work, key and project requests.

The Supporting Student Resiliency Professional Development Series provides CU faculty and staff with concrete skills to better support students.

Sessions focus on areas critical to student retention and success. Faculty and staff can attend any individual session; those attending all three will receive a non-degree certificate.

The trainings will be offered via Zoom from 11 a.m. to noon on July 12, 19 and 26.

The sessions will cover:

• An introduction to motivational interviewing.
• Supporting survivors (how to respond in a trauma-informed way to someone who discloses a traumatic experience).
• Supporting student mental health.

This summer the Colorado Department of Transportation is continuing Bustang, its direct bus service to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park from Denver, Westminster, Broomfield, Boulder and Lyons.

Trips depart on Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 1, as well as on select holiday Mondays, including July 3 and Sept. 4.

Catch the bus at Denver Union Station, the US 36 and Sheridan Station, Broomfield Station, Table Mesa Station or in Lyons.

Tickets are typically $15 round-trip and students receive a 25% discount. 

During July and August, Regional Transportation District (RTD) will offer "zero fares" across its system as part of the Zero Fare for Better Air initiative. This collaborative, statewide initiative is designed to reduce ground-level ozone by increasing the use of public transit.

Current RTD customers will also benefit as they will not have to use or purchase fare products from July 1–Aug. 31, during Colorado’s high ozone season.  

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how probiotic supplementation impacts your stress levels. This research may help us better understand factors that support adaptive stress responding.

You may be eligible for this study if you are:

• Age 18 to 45.
• Willing to take a probiotic supplement for about two months.
• Not immunosuppressed.

Participation includes:

• One 30-minute in-person visit, where you will receive the probiotic/placebo and complete questionnaires.
• About 2 months of supplementation.
• Completion of periodic brief questionnaires sent via text.

970-921-9321 IRB Protocol #: 22-0234

The Shine Lab is recruiting participants for a research study who:

• Are students, staff or faculty at CU Boulder
• Are native English speakers
• Are over the age of 18
• Are proficient at using computers
• Do not have a history of seizures

These studies take place at the Center for Innovation and Creativity (1777 Exposition Drive) in Room 171E. In this type of study, we look at your physiological reaction and at your brain waves as you work in a team on a task that involves searching for objects of interest in satellite images. The purpose of the research is to better understand the experiences people have while working in teams on collaborative tasks. 

We will use non-invasive sensors (functional-near infrared spectroscopy) to measure your brain and physiological activity while you work with the visual search task.

These devices are safe and comfortable for experiment participants to wear.
The studies last two hours each and the pay is $15 per hour, plus a significant merit-based cash bonus. You cannot earn course credit through this study.

If you are interested, please email shinelabstudy@gmail.com to schedule a slot.

During maintenance that affects the portals, such as the maintenance scheduled for Sunday, June 25, remember you can directly access Canvas and some other services that are provided through the portals.

Efforts are underway to create a unified scheduling tool for reserving space on campus to streamline cross-campus collaboration and address the scheduling needs of all students, faculty and staff (both academic and administrative).

Currently, space reservations are made through more than a dozen separately managed scheduling tools. This tool also will provide more accurate data for campus to make better space development decisions.

If you currently use a scheduling tool for reserving space on campus, staff from the Office of the Provost and Student Affairs want to hear your feedback and current challenges. Please contact emina.begovic@colorado.edu by July 14. There will be another opportunity in the fall to offer feedback, as well.

The Neuromechanics Lab needs volunteers for a study on arm-reaching behavior.

You must:

• Be English-speaking
• Be 25–65-years-old
• Have no neurological or musculoskeletal disorders
• Be able to move the arms and hands without difficulty
• Be able to arrange transportation to CU Boulder campus

This study will involve one day of testing for approximately two hours. All procedures take place in our campus laboratory, Neuromechanics Laboratory, Engineering Center ECSL 1B21. Subjects will be compensated for their participation (up to $50).

CU Boulder has a great number of experts conducting research focused on fires at the wildland urban interface (WUI). This research encompasses many aspects of WUI fires, including forecasting across scales, disaster resilience, air and water contamination, and community support.

With the goal of increasing CU Boulder's impact and bringing our research community together, CIRES is planning a workshop focused on wildfire in the WUI research on Sept. 8. If you are interested in participating or are working on fire research, please fill this form by July 10. Organizers then will look at submissions and organize the workshop. 

Located on the first floor of the UMC, The Connection is the place on campus for fun things to do with friends and family! As the only bowling center in Boulder, The Connection features bowling lanes with automatic scoring, billiards tables, video game consoles (Xbox One, PS4, Wii), table tennis and a selection of food and beverages available daily.

The Connection is hiring mechanics, cashiers and a Connection coordinator!

Mechanic | Student Assistant I $15/hour; 8–20 hours per week

The Connection mechanics are a unit of student para-professionals whose primary function is to service, maintain and repair bowling equipment in addition to assisting with maintenance and service needs in and around The Connection facility.

Cashier | Student Assistant I $15/hour; 8–16 hours per week

The Connection cashiers are a unit of student para-professionals whose primary function is to monitor, maintain and provide service to those who attend and use The Connection and all equipment provided. Work in the heart of campus at the only bowling center in Boulder, serving the recreational needs of CU students, faculty, staff and the community.

Connection coordinator | Graduate Student Assistant | Student Assistant IV | $18.20/hour; up to 25 hours per week

The Connection coordinator will assist The Connection manager in the oversight of daily facility operations, staff supervision, reservation management, staff training and development, general marketing, and monthly inventory. The position will also assist The Connection manager and the UMC program coordinator with weekly, monthly and annual programming for The Connection.

Graduation deadlines are approaching master's and doctoral students who are planning to graduate this summer. See what's coming up June 15 and June 25, and look ahead to August.

Got an arts-loving young person in your life?

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival offers summer camps for kids and teens (ages 6–18) on CU Boulder’s campus. Students will rehearse, stage and perform a shortened Shakespeare play (scenes for Sprites). Camp Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Sprites are a fabulous way for kids and teens to explore theater and Shakespeare in a creative and supportive environment.

Visit our website for dates, details, tuition and more.

The Moth will hold its GrandSLAM Championships: Big Breaks event in Denver at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 15. (Doors open at 7 p.m.)

The Moth is offering one pair of free tickets in a giveaway for CU Boulder Today readers. Enter to win by 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 13. The Moth will notify the winner via email by Tuesday, June 13. Activate the QR code here or click on the giveaway form to enter.

Listen as 10 champions from The Moth's open-mic StorySLAM series compete for the title of the Denver GrandSLAM champs. Ten of Denver's finest storytellers will share stories of the unusual, unexpected, occasional, rare and magical. Hosted by Nick Ross, the night’s theme is big breaks. 

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling.

The Office of Information Technology will be migrating email safety and security technology to Microsoft 365 on Tuesday, June 6. This change will mostly run in the background to improve anti-spam, anti-malware and phishing protection for the CU Boulder campus, but you will start to see notifications that you haven't received before from Microsoft Defender Quarantine.

Read the OIT news story about this change, as well as the Microsoft Defender Quarantine page for additional information and instructions for releasing emails from quarantine.