Faculty, your textbook information is due now for spring 2015. Please contact the CU Book Store as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sept. 24, noon in Imig N285 Overwhelmed by all the streaming music services out there? Are you wondering about the differences between Pandora and Spotify? Rdio and iTunes Radio? Are you curious which is best for you and your musical tastes, and how you can manage your own listening library? And which apps should you use for listening on the go? Come to this session to explore the options, from the super popular, to the ones we bet you haven’t even heard of yet…

Sept. 17, noon, in Imig N285 Qualtrics is a powerful online survey suite available free to all CU faculty, staff and students. Create surveys with a wide range of question types, collect and track detailed data from respondents and analyze data with built-in reporting tools, all through a browser interface. Use Qualtrics to collect information quickly from large groups of people and to easily gather large datasets for analysis. Please feel free to bring your Mac/PC laptop to work with the Qualtrics features demonstrated.

Google Glass has many potential applications in higher education. Come learn more about how Google Glass works, & how musicians and performing artists are using it in their work. In this Learner’s Lunch, the presenter will provide an overview of the technology and its basic functionalities and share examples of how it is being used in music. The format will be a brief presentation followed by a demo and discussion. Depending on the number of participants, attendees may have an opportunity to try Google Glass. Noon, Sept. 3 Imig N285

Join Jeremy Smith, associate professor of musicology, for a discussion about how composers over the centuries— from Byrd to Bach to Beethoven — have told their stories through their music, often with powerful results. Saturday, Nov. 15, 1-3 p.m. Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180. The event is part of CU on the Weekend, which is free and open to the public.

Join Jeremy Smith, associate professor of musicology, for a discussion about how composers over the centuries— from Byrd to Bach to Beethoven — have told their stories through their music, often with powerful results. Saturday, Nov. 15, 1-3 p.m. Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180. The event is part of CU on the Weekend, which is free and open to the public.

In many ways — including counts of the cells and the genes in and on our bodies — we are more microbial than human. Join Rob Knight, professor of chemistry and co-founder of the American Gut Project, for a discussion about techniques scientists are using to find out about microbes across the human body, including the gut, and the ways that microbes contribute to disease. Saturday, Oct. 18, 1-4 p.m., Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, Butcher Auditorium. Free and open to the public.

Join CU-Boulder Adjunct History Professor Peter Wood for a discussion about the wartime election of 1864—held 150 years ago this fall. The election has rightly been called the most remarkable and significant presidential contest in American history. Through a new generation of research, 1864 emerges as a key year during the nation’s most tumultuous decade, and the greatest confrontation of that fateful year involved ballots, not bullets. Saturday, Sept. 6, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. in Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180. Free and open to the public.

An annual tradition at CU at the start of Lent. Rev. Roger Wolsey & students active with Wesley Fellowship campus ministry will offer anyone ashes and/or blessings at the Fountain area outside the UMC 11AM-1:30PM. Open to everyone who seeks a reminder of the call to spiritual depth, embracing mortality, & faith. (ashes on forehead or on back of your hand) Also: Ash Wednesday worship service at 6PM at Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St. Across from Folsom Field, at the corner of University Heights Ave., 1 block north of Colorado Ave.

The Anderson Language Technology Center (ALTEC) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for fall language classes. These classes are non-credit and are open to the CU staff, faculty, graduate students, retirees and their spouses, as well as the Boulder community. Classes begin Sept. 13 and run for 8 weeks. Tuition is only $75 for CU affiliates. This summer choose from various levels of French, Japanese, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish. Sign up now