University of Colorado Boulder
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You’re invited! Health and Wellness Services is looking for undergraduate students to join us for a focus group on March 1 to share thoughts on peer support programming.
The group will run from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Wardenburg. We will provide tea and snacks, and participants will also receive $5 Campus Cash as a thank you. You can sign up here!
The Hearing Research Laboratory is recruiting participants for a research study on how different listening conditions affect our ability to perceive noisy speech that has been processed in a way that mimics state-of-the-art hearing aids. We are interested in determining how hearing aid settings can be optimized for speech understanding when we are listening with two ears in realistic environments.
You may be eligible if you are aged 18 years or older with normal hearing.
What will you have to do? If you qualify, you will be presented speech and will repeat back the words/sentences that you hear. You will visit the Hearing Research Lab about three times.
How much time will it take? The study will include three visits over approximately two to three weeks, for a total of about four hours in the laboratory. We will schedule the visits at a time convenient for you. You will be paid $15 per hour for your time. You will also receive a free hearing test to determine if you qualify for the study.
The study will be held in the Hearing Research Laboratory in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at 2501 Kittredge Loop Rd.
Contact hearlab@colorado.edu with any questions.
We are recruiting participants for a research study. You may be eligible if you are 18 years or older and are a member of the CU Boulder community (faculty, staff, student or alumni).
Along with a small group, you will walk to several locations on campus; and at each location, you will fill out a survey about your perception of sounds you hear in each location. You will be provided with a survey and pen/pencil.
The sound walk will take about one hour. For your participation, you may choose to be entered into a drawing for $25 gift cards.
The study will be held outside on the CU Boulder campus. You will meet the rest of the group at the buffalo statue outside of Folsom Field, and from there the group will move to the other selected locations.
Currently, we are recruiting for sound walk sessions the week of Feb. 5 and the week of Feb. 12 (weather permitting).
Living with metastatic cancer? Avoiding planning for the future? Feeling down, distressed, or worried? Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers and CU Boulder are offering an online study for adults with metastatic cancer who are feeling anxious, down or distressed.
The Valued Living Study compares a five-week online skills group to usual supportive care. Participants can earn up to $150. You may be eligible if you:
We welcome individuals of any race, ethnicity, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic status or national origin.
Please reach out to learn more! Email valuedliving@colorado.edu; call or text 720-515-9461.
CU Anschutz researchers in the Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes are looking for healthy men and women to study the effects of sleep disruption on bone health.
You may qualify for this study if you:
Involvement includes:
The total study duration is up to six weeks of participation. You will receive up to $1,500 and a FitBit for your time.
If interested, email spotlight@cuanschutz.edu for study details, or complete the prescreening survey.
The CU Boulder Sleep and Development Lab is looking for participants to help us learn about current trends in sleep patterns and sleep-related practices in early childhood. We need parents of children ages 1.0-8.9 years to complete a short online survey taking approximately 10 minutes.
For more information, contact the Sleep and Development Laboratory at sleepdev@colorado.edu or visit our website.
The CU Boulder Bioastronautics Research Group, part of the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, is recruiting subjects to participate in an astronaut training study using virtual reality.
Subjects will be trained on one of three tasks: an entry-descent landing scenario, a rover driving scenario, or a habitat maintenance scenario. Subjects will complete anywhere from three to eight sessions, with the first session taking up to 2.5 hours and the following sessions taking one hour each.
All subjects between the ages of 18 and 65 are invited to email vr_training@outlook.com to learn more. Any questions about the study can be directed to the PI at apanders@colorado.edu.
The Neuromechanics Lab needs volunteers for a study on learning and effort in a walking task. We are interested in how the effort involved in a movement impacts how you learn in a new environment. The task involves walking on a treadmill with separate belts for each foot at walking speeds.
You must be English-speaking, between 18–35 years old, have normal or corrected vision, no movement control or vestibular problems, and no recent orthopedic surgeries or broken bones.
The study will involve a single two-hour visit to our campus laboratory in the Engineering Center, ECSL 1B21, and will include motion-capture of your walking gait. Subjects will be compensated with a $25 Amazon gift card.
If interested, please fill out a screening survey.
The Neuromechanics Lab needs volunteers for a study on learning and effort in a walking task. We are interested in how the effort involved in a movement impacts how you learn in a new environment. The task involves walking on a treadmill with separate belts for each foot at walking speeds.
Qualifications:
The study will involve two visits (the first lasting 75 minutes and the second lasting 65 minutes) to our campus laboratory in the Engineering Center (1B21 ECSL) at 1111 Engineering Drive. It will include motion-capture of your walking gait. Subjects will be compensated with an Amazon gift card for $25.
If interested, please fill out a screening survey. Contact Rachel Marbaker at rachel.marbaker@colorado.edu or 719-373-1748 with any questions.
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 screening form, and the lab will contact you regarding your eligibility.
Have you had a spinal cord injury? If so, we need your help.
The Sensorimotor Recovery and Neuroplasticity Laboratory at CU Boulder and CU Anschutz is seeking persons with a spinal cord injury to participate in a research project to study how low-oxygen therapy may promote recovery of movement.
This study is looking to see how mild bouts of breathing low oxygen may improve leg strength and walking ability in persons with spinal cord injury. The purpose of this study is to gain better understanding of how this potential therapy may help people with spinal cord injury become more independent.
If the following two questions apply to you, we would like to hear from you.
Data we collect will be used to determine if this therapy may increase voluntary movement in persons' spinal cord injury.
The study takes up one to two hours per day, up to 10 days of experimental treatment and training, and up to two days for tests on the CU Boulder campus. Participants will be compensated $25 for each visit and in some cases for travel.
Thank you so very much for your consideration. Your participation in our research program is greatly appreciated. For more information, contact CU Boulder's Andrew Quesada Tan and/or CU Anschutz's Andrew C. Smith with the subject line "IH STUDY."
Strategic Relations and Communications seeks first- and second-year undergraduates to participate in an hour-long focus group being held throughout the week of Oct. 10. The focus groups will be conveniently held on Zoom.
We want to hear your opinions about different CU Boulder communications and sources of information. Participation is confidential, and all responses will be anonymous.
As a token of appreciation, we are offering each participant a $20 Amazon gift card.
Please use the link below to find a date and time that works for you and reserve your spot. Participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis—so sign up today!
We are looking for males and females with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), ages 18-35, with typical bedtime of 1 a.m. or later to participate in a study at the CU Boulder Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory.
Compensation up to $750. Get study details and apply.
We are recruiting participants for a research study who are fluent English speakers, are over the age of 18, and who have taken at least an intro-level programming class (or equivalent experience) with C++.
We are investigating how programmers of varying experience levels approach debugging C++ code. Our eventual goal is to create a collaborative robot that can support newer programmers as they learn debugging strategies. In the study, you will be completing a debugging task alongside our partner robot.
The study will last 30 minutes, and the pay is $15. You cannot earn course credit through this study.
Schedule an appointment online. The studies take place at the CU Engineering Center, Room ECST 322. To get directions to our lab, or for more information, please email kayleigh.bishop@colorado.edu. Thanks!
The CU Boulder Sleep and Development Lab is looking for participants for a research study to learn about how light exposure in the evening affects pupil size in adolescents. We need children ages 15.0–16.9 years who are healthy and have no sleep problems for a six-day study, requiring one short visit to our lab (approximately two hours). Families will be compensated for participating.
For more information, contact the Sleep and Development Laboratory at sleepdev@colorado.edu or visit our website.