Join the UMC Board and be part of the decisions that help the UMC fulfill its mission. The UMC Board is the governing board for CU's student union and currently has openings for student members. You must be able to make the board meetings on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. It is a great leadership opportunity for new and returning CU students. Learn more and apply by Oct 3.

Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 4 p.m. in Hellems 152. Comprehensible input is the key to language acquisition. Through a movie talk sample lesson, participants will learn about CI strategies for fun class activities and meaningful ways to get repetitions in order to engage students in the World Language classrooms. This discussion will be led by Amick Chen, the recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award 2015-16 in Colorado, so don't miss out on this event!

ALTEC is seeking language informants for an intermittent week in helping in testing Amharic and Tigrinya. For more information please contact the ALTEC program director, Mark Knowles, at mark.knowles@colorado.edu.

Non-credit Portuguese is now available for students who are interested. Beginning Portuguese requires no previous knowledge or exposure to Portuguese, so everybody is welcome! This class begins with basic skill building for communication and introduces cultural information through a variety of classroom activities. The course runs Oct. 14 through Dec. 9, Fridays 5 to 6:50 p.m. Register here Contact us altec@colorado.edu

Join the UMC Board and be part of the decisions that help the UMC fulfill its mission. The UMC Board is the governing board for CU's student union and currently has openings for student members. You must be able to make the board meetings on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. It is a great leadership opportunity for new and returning CU students. Learn more and apply by Oct. 3.

Historian, anthropologist and award-winning author James F. Brooks will examine one of the most important events in the early historic period in the American Southwest. Brooks’ interdisciplinary research on the indigenous and colonial past explores complex interactions between the native people of the Southwest borderlands and subsequent intruders, probing divisions of gender and class within each group. Come to Hellems room 201 at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20 for this free lecture.

Calling all performers! Come showcase your talent at the annual concert of the Diverse Musicians' Alliance on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. in Grusin Hall of the Imig Music Building. All genres of music are welcome. Please join us. Sign up at http://tinyurl.com/SignupDiverseMusicConcert by Sept. 23.

September’s monthly brown bag series on Monday, Sept. 26, 12 to 1 p.m. in the Rec Center will feature a presentation by Ceal Barry and Jillian Keegan on compliance in athletics. The presentation will include an overview of CU's Athletic department values, highlights of the compliance program, equity aspects of Title IX and information on what Athletics does to ensure academic benchmarks are achieved while ensuring well-being for their student-athletes. Q&A will follow presentation. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunch.

Give your child some STEM enrichment in the form of after-school classes at our on-campus (east) location. 3D Video Game Design, Lego Robotics WeDo and Myra Makes:STEM Adventures for Girls are being offered for six weeks starting next week. CU employees receive a 5 percent discount. Call 303-735-2230 to have the discount applied. Register now.

Science Learner's Lunch is a workshop series designed to provide students with tools and information that complements the skills they learn in the classroom. These workshops take place every Wednesday, at 12 p.m., in Math 150, inside the Gemmill Library of Engineering, Math & Physics. Upcoming topics: Sept. 21: Basic Zotero Sept. 28: Advanced Zotero Oct. 5: Implicit Bias at Benson 380 Oct. 12: Introduction to ArcGIS Oct. 19: Building Your Professional Identity Oct. 26: SciFinder for Chemical Engineers