Apply now for an internship next semester at The Nature Conservancy, History Colorado or Colorado Humanities through the Center of the American West Internships Program. Current openings include working as a research assistant or a school-groups tour guide at History Colorado; assisting with conservation science projects at The Nature Conservancy; and serving as assistant editor for Colorado Encyclopedia at Colorado Humanities. Please see our website for details and contact us with questions.

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that the Eaton Humanities building will be open 24 hours a day during finals week for students with a current Buff OneCard, providing an all-night study location on campus.        

• Eaton Humanities will be open 24 hours starting Friday, Dec. 15, through Tuesday, Dec. 19. (The building resumes its regular hours on Wednesday, Dec. 20.)
• Finals will be conducted in this building during regular business hours, so students should be respectful of this.
• After-hours access will only be through the south door.
• Students must have a valid Buff OneCard to enter.
• Security will be present in the building from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
• Auditoriums on each level will be not be available after hours.

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.

Join a movement of college students who are passionate about engaging in service during college breaks. Participants commit to preparation as well as pre- and post-trip service.

Financial aid and scholarships are available to those who qualify. The trip cost includes, food, lodging and travel.

Apply now at colorado.edu/volunteer.

$450 per month (negotiable) to share a room. Apartment is two blocks from campus on 13th Street in the University Hill area. Other roommates are female. Apartment available starting this month. Contact me directly to discuss.

Be a project lead for the Better Boulder Day of Service. This is a leadership opportunity for enthusiastic and service-oriented individuals who are looking to plan and lead a group service project as a part of this long-standing CU Boulder tradition. 

For more information please visit our website, and direct any questions to vrcevents@colorado.edu.

Apply at colorado.edu/volunteer.

The Center of the American West is proud to present the Wallace Stegner and the Humor Initiative’s Fool for a Day Award to Senator Alan Simpson, his wife Ann Schroll Simpson, Pete Simpson and his wife Lynne Simpson. Please join us for this once in a lifetime event.

Each year, the center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual or group of individuals who have made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore or an understanding of the West. The center also presents a Fool for a Day Award annually to celebrate those individuals whose skills and temperaments support the central conviction of the Center of the American West: A dose of good humor is essential to constructive public discussion and, not coincidentally, to public health.

The Center has combined the Stegner Award with the Humor Initiative to celebrate their contributions to our understanding of the West and to celebrate the opportunity to laugh as we do so. 

Visit the Center of the American West online for more information on the award recipients.

Thursday, Dec. 7, 6:30 p.m.
Village Center Multipurpose Room

Are you a fan of Shakespeare's late romance plays like The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest? You'll love Pericles! Part fairy tale, part soap opera and part seafaring adventure (complete with pirates), this rarely performed play has something for everyone. 

In this 10-week class, students will rehearse an abridged version of Pericles and perform it for friends and family on April 24. For advanced performers and newcomers to Shakespeare, this class is a fun and engaging way to build language and performance skills, work with other teenagers as part of a team and connect the ideas and conflicts in Shakespeare's world to our own. 

Open to students of all experience levels and abilities. 

Early-bird price (before Jan. 1): $180
Regular price: $200

Scholarships available upon request. Get $20 off with employee discount code "BUFFBARDC17."

Tuesdays, Feb. 13 to April 24, 4–5:30 p.m. 
(No class March 27)
Wesley Fellowship Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder

Deadline extended on the Women’s Leadership Symposium 2018 call for programs!

The symposium seeks to explore a variety of ways women/woman-identified individuals build their leadership skills and feel empowered to become tomorrow’s leaders.

We encourage staff and students to collaborate on proposal submissions that address our key themes:

• Women’s issues around the world—a global perspective
• Navigating the working world
• Exploring and celebrating diverse leadership styles

Learn more and submit online by Dec. 15.

The Office of Financial Aid (including Scholarships and Student Employment) will be closed from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 12, for a staff event. Offices and phones will be closed. All offices (and phone lines) will reopen on schedule at 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 13. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Are you planning and developing a crowdfunding campaign and need some help? Work with the CU Boulder crowdfunding coordinator to get your questions answered, feedback on your page, and general crowdfunding work done in a workshop-style setting.

Wednesday, Dec. 13, 4–5 p.m.
University Memorial Center, room 415

Test your knowledge of everything from celebrities and sports to history and more!

$5 entry fee. Sign up at 6 p.m. at The Connection front desk. Games begin at 7 p.m. Prizes for top finishers!

Last date for fall semester:
Monday, Dec. 11

Check out all of The Connection’s weekly events.

Are you a Leeds student interested in earning academic credit through a summer international internship? Attend the international internship interest meeting Dec. 4 to learn more.

Monday, Dec. 4, 5 p.m.
Koelbel, room S125

LASP Public Lecture: "Science Data Centers—How We Turn Bits into Science Results"

What happens between the spacecraft and the science results? How do we take that stream of ones and zeroes that comes back from space and turn it into something that a scientist can use? What do we do when a spacecraft sends back gigabytes of data per day and we can’t possibly look at it all, or when there are glitches and gaps and our images are full of holes?

These are the questions that will be answered in our discussion of “How we turn bits into science results.” This talk will describe some of the lesser-known aspects of the “pipeline” that turns the bits from the spacecraft into products that scientists can use to make new discoveries. We’ll talk about the vast differences between all the various data sets that we handle here at LASP, the similarities between the pipelines, and the challenges that arise in processing, storing and distributing unique spacecraft datasets.

Admission and parking are free. Doors open at 7 p.m. Please see the event page for complete details.

Wednesday, Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m.
LASP Space Technology Building, room 299

The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting children between 2 and 7 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how children hear.

During the course of this study, your child will sit in a sound-proof booth with an examiner and will listen to sounds presented over a loudspeaker or over earphones. To find out what your child can hear, we will teach him/her to make a response to a certain sound signal. These responses will be play activities like putting a toy in a bucket or adding a block to a tower. We may use a mechanical toy whenever he/she responses to the sound. The signals will be presented in quiet and in various background sounds. The sounds we use are not loud. 

You will be able to sit inside the booth with your child or watch your child through an observation window. As part of this study, your child will also receive a middle ear screening at no cost to you. If at any time we discover any important hearing-related findings, we will report those findings to you and provide you with contact information for a complete hearing evaluation.

Two visits to the laboratory are required. Each visit lasts about one hour. You will receive $10 per hour, and we will pay your parking if you drive to the lab.

If you are interested, please email childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252.

The principal investigator for this research study is Angela Yarnell Bonino, PhD, Department Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. All testing will be completed in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) building on Main Campus.