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Paid research for young adults with public-speaking anxiety

Do you fear public speaking? Feel highly anxious in social situations? Have no major health problems? Ages 18-25?

You may be eligible to participate in a paid study at CU Boulder.

Participation includes completing questionnaires, social tasks and a brief intervention for social and public-speaking anxiety. Participants will earn $32 for completing the two-part, four-hour study. 

To sign up for the study, please select experiment No. 1022 on the paid Sona website or email intervention-study@colorado.edu for more information. 

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 ages 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 do one of the following:

For more information, feel free to check out our Facebook page and website
 

Student-participants wanted for reading study

The Emotive Computing Lab at CU Boulder is looking for participants for a study of eye movements during reading. 

You are eligible to participant in this research study if you:

  • Are at least 18 years of age
  • Are a CU Boulder student
  • Speak English
  • Do not have significant and uncorrected vision impairments

The study contains two parts: 

  1. A visit to the lab will be scheduled at a mutually convenient time (lasting one hour and fifteen minutes) for a $20 Amazon gift card.
  2. A week later, we will email you a follow-up questionnaire to complete remotely online (lasting 30 minutes) for a $10 Amazon gift card.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Julie Gregg at eyetrackingandreading@gmail.com for more information.

Fulbright student grant informational meetings

Where in the world do you want to go? 

The Fulbright program is the U.S. government’s flagship program for international educational exchange, and CU Boulder is a top-producing institution for U.S. Fulbright student grants. 

Come to Norlin Library, room S-421, for an informational meeting to learn how you can apply for a Fulbright grant to do overseas study/research or to be an English teaching assistant overseas. These grants are for any student who will have at least a bachelor's degree by the time the grant starts and won’t yet have completed a PhD. 

All meetings are the same; choose the most convenient for you. Email deborah.viles@colorado.edu for more details.

Upcoming meetings:
Monday, March 12, 4–5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 4, 4:30–5:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 24, 5–6 p.m.

Win $500: Deadline approaching for Western American writing awards

March 20 is the deadline for a chance to win $500 in the 19th annual Thompson Writing Awards. 

The contest is open to all CU Boulder students at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Prizes are $500 in each of four categories: fiction, memoir, poetry and creative non-fiction. Enter your writing in any or all of the four categories. 

Your topic should touch on any issue of the American West - past, present or future. To name some examples: growing up in a Western town; visiting a Western place for the first time; Native American history, culture and current events; immigration; myth and stereotype in movies and books about the West; ranching; prairie dogs; wolves; wild horses; water, dams and drought; tourism; public lands; national parks and monuments; energy development. 

Visit our website for details and the entry form and to read winning entries from past years. Contact us with your questions at academics@centerwest.org or 303-735-1399. 

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 do one of the following:

  • Visit our website.
  • 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 and website
 

BSI Scholars in STEM Undergraduate Research accepting applications

Student working in lab

BSI (Biological Sciences Initiative) Scholars in STEM Undergraduate Research is a funding and professional-development program for current CU Boulder undergraduates. 

Eligible students conducting original STEM research are paid to work in a laboratory at CU Boulder or CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Students also attend seminars to enhance the research experience and summarize their findings through a presentation at the end of the term.

Summer 2018 applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday, March 16, for students who have not previously received funding through BSI. For more information, please visit the BSI website.

First-generation college students needed for research

Do you identify as a first-generation college student? The “Experiences of First Generation College Students in Colorado Academic Libraries” project is a research study about how first-generation undergraduate college students experience libraries at universities across the state.

We are looking for students from CU Boulder who would be willing to participate in the study by responding to a brief survey and if interested, meet with a member of the research team for a follow-up discussion regarding their experiences at CU Boulder. 

Survey participants can enter a raffle to have the chance to receive $25 gift card. 

If you are interested in participating, email Juliann Couture at juliann.couture@colorado.edu or proceed directly to the survey. The survey should take 10–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until March 16.

Spread the word: Enter writing contest by March 20 for chance to win $500

CU Boulder students and faculty: Center of the American West is accepting entries through March 20 for the 19th annual Thompson Awards for Western American Writing. 

The contest is open to all CU Boulder students at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Prizes are $500 in each of four categories: fiction, memoir, poetry and creative non-fiction. 

Enter your writing in any or all of the four categories. The writing should explore some aspect or issue of the American West, past, present or future. To name some examples: growing up in a Western town; visiting a Western place for the first time; indigenous people, culture and history; immigration; myth and stereotype in movies and books about Western people, places and events; ranching; prairie dogs; wolves; wild horses; water, dams and drought; tourism; energy development. 

Visit our website for details and the entry form and to read winning entries from past years. Contact us with your questions at academics@centerwest.org or 303-735-1399.

Student-participants needed for paid psychology study

We are currently looking for CU students, ages 18 to 22, right-handed and native-English speakers. 

This study investigates people's decisions during a gambling task and also looks into people's abilities to control their attention.This study will take one hour to complete and you will get $15 for participation and the chance to earn bonus money. 

To sign up for the study, please visit the paid SONA site to get scheduled.

Students: Help build a sustainable bamboo structure in coastal Ecuador

Group of students in Ecuador
Calling all students interested in architecture, sustainable design, engineering, environmental studies, agroforestry and traveling! Are you interested in making an impactful difference in a community of coastal Ecuador? Are you interested in taking long walks on the beach, late-night soccer matches with locals or campfires on the beach over summer break? Join other CU Boulder and UC Berkley students May 20-30 to build a bamboo structure and learn about sustainable eco-farming practices! Come to one of our upcoming interest meetings; the next will be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21, in DLC 191 (in the ITLL of the Engineering Center).

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 ages 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 do one of the following:

For more information, feel free to check out our Facebook page and website.

Students: Submit your Western American writing by March 20 for chance to win $500

Regardless of whether you call the West your home or you are just passing through, as a student at CU Boulder you live, breathe, eat, drink and sleep the West. Here's an opportunity to transform your unique perspective on this region into cash, simply by putting it to paper. 

Center of the American West will continue accepting entries through March 20 for its 19th annual Thompson Awards for Western American Writing. The contest is open to all CU Boulder students, graduate and undergraduate. 

Prizes are $500 in each of four categories: fiction, memoir, poetry and creative non-fiction. Students may submit entries in any or all of the four categories. The theme must touch upon some aspect or issue of the American West. To name a few examples: growing up in a Western town; visiting a national park or other place in the West for the first time; immigration; wildfire; the use of myth and stereotype in movies and books about Western people, places and events; ranching and public lands; skiing and ski resorts; prairie dogs and mustangs; water; tourism; energy development.

Please visit our website for details, entry form and to read winning entries from past years. Then contact us with your questions: academics@centerwest.org or 303-735-1399.

Participate in a paid study on mood and emotion

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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 (the first visit is 2–3 hours; the second is 4 hours), with an option for paid follow-up phone interviews.

For more information, please complete the screening survey. If you have questions please email us at gruberpeplab@gmail.com or visit our website.

Call for Southeast Asia course development proposals, due Feb. 26

The Center for Asian Studies has funding available for CU Boulder faculty members who would like to develop curricula for new or revised courses about Southeast Asia.

CAS will offer two faculty awards for the creation or significant revision of an undergraduate course on Southeast Asia in any discipline. Funding will be provided to faculty in order to enhance the area studies curriculum and build toward the Southeast Asia track in the Asian Studies major. Two $1,500 stipends will be awarded for a total of $3,000 per year. Proposals for new Global Seminars in Southeast Asia are also welcome.

Awards will be paid as summer salary (subject to taxes and withholding), or as reimbursement for travel or course materials. Recipients will be asked to submit a report and syllabus for the new course during the fall 2018 semester. New or revised courses must be cross-listed with Asian Studies. Failure to do so will result in ineligibility for future CAS faculty awards.

Please complete a Course Development Grant Application and submit, along with appropriate attachments, to cas@colorado.edu. Proposals are due Monday, Feb. 26.

Please direct any questions to CAS Executive Director Danielle Rocheleau Salaz at salaz@colorado.edu or 303-735-5312. To learn more, visit the CAS website.