The Task Force for International Student Success has scheduled several town hall meetings in an effort to better support international students. Coffee, cookies and conversation will be provided. The first meetings for faculty and staff members are Friday, Jan. 27 in UMC 247. The faculty session is from 9 to 10 a.m., and the staff session is from 10 to 11 a.m. Please visit CU Boulder Today for the complete list of scheduled meetings.

Burns Paiute former Chairwoman, Charlotte Roderique, will be bringing the profound stories of her peoples’ pasts to Benson 180 on February 21st, 2017 at 6:30pm. Charlotte Roderique is this years Modern Identity speaker and will be speaking on “The 2016 Oregon Wildlife Refuge Takeover: A Tribal Response.”

Earn up to $180 in a paid research study! Researchers in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder are conducting a study seeking to understand the neuroscience of emotion and well-being. If you are a woman between ages 18 and 55, you may be eligible to participate. Participants must be: * Healthy women OR women with a history of depression * Ages 18 to 65 * Willing to participate in an MRI assessment * Smartphone users Contact us at womenswellness@colorado.edu or 303-492-7378.

The Gender and Sexuality Center offers monthly Safe Zone Training to help create a welcoming, inclusive community for all members of campus. Upcoming Training Sessions: * Thursday, Feb. 9, 1 to 3 p.m., s435, C4C * Thursday, March 16, 1 to 3 p.m., s484, C4C * Friday, April 7, 12 to 2 p.m., s484, C4C * Thursday, May 18, 1 to 3 p.m., s484, C4C Please register online for a Safe Zone Training for your department or group.

Join Colorado Law for the final round of the Rothgerber Moot Court Competition on Tuesday, March 14, at 4 p.m. in the Wittemyer Courtroom at the Wolf Law Building. A reception will follow for registered guests. Please register to attend by Tuesday, March 7. Visit the Colorado Law website for more information and to register. Special thank you to Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP for its generous support of this event.

The 2017 Innovative Seed Grant Program (ISGP) proposal deadline is Sunday, Feb. 12. Designed to stimulate new, compelling areas of research and creative work on the CU Boulder campus, the program has set aside $1 million to fund grants of up to $50,000 each, with $250,000 reserved to support work connected to the campus Grand Challenge. Faculty from across disciplines will be judged in categories designed to allow all disciplines an opportunity to compete successfully. See the website below for more information.

CU Public Interest Internship Experience (PIIE) is seeking applicants interested in making a positive impact this summer. PIIE provides full-time, paid summer internships in fields ranging from animal welfare to education, health, law and sustainability working for nonprofit and government agencies in the Denver/Boulder area. Visit CU Boulder Today to learn more information and see the complete list of host organizations.

Margaret Werth received her MA and PhD from Harvard University and taught at Barnard College and Columbia University before going to the University of Delaware in 2001. Her area of interest is art and visual culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her book The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900, published in 2002, explores dreamlike representations of mythic community, individual fantasy and utopianism. The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, March 22, at 5:30 p.m. at Norlin Library in the British Studies Room.

Through mixed-media painting and sculpture, Kelliher-Combs offers a chronicle of the ongoing struggle for self-identity in the Alaskan context. Her combination of shared iconography with personal imagery demonstrates the power of each vocabulary. Similarly, her use of synthetic, organic, traditional and modern materials moves beyond oppositions between Western/Native culture, self/other and man/nature to examine their interrelationships and interdependence. The lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m. in VAC 1B20.

Frohawk Two Feathers re-imagines colonial history in his intimate paintings, conjuring a fictional cast of subjects, including freed slaves, militiamen, dukes, lords and tribesmen. Two Feathers paints ink and acrylic scenes onto coffee- and tea-stained paper, detailing colonial uprisings against the imaginary superpowers Frengland and Fenoscandia. His images contain a mashup of references, combining elements of 18th- and 19th-century colonial portraiture and folk art. The lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, March 7, at 6:30 p.m. in VAC 1B20.