Sharpen your PowerPoint skills, enhance your conference talk and hone your elevator pitch in this two-day workshop.

Open to graduate students, postdocs and senior undergraduate researchers who are interested in giving scientific talks to a scientific community. Apply by Feb. 6, as this workshop is limited to 40 participants to encourage a more personalized experience.

If you go

Saturday, Feb. 23, and Sunday, Feb. 24
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. both days
Biotechnology Building

The CU Hearing Research Laboratory is recruiting participants for a research study on how our ability to hear interacts with our ability to listen (focus our attention) in difficult listening situations, such as distorted or noisy speech. We are interested in whether measures of attention and memory can help us choose hearing aid settings that make speech more clear. You may be eligible if you are age 18 years or older with normal hearing or with hearing loss in both ears. Please contact us if you may be interested in participating in this study.

Are you aged 18–35 and healthy? Join our research study on sleep, performance and gut health

This study is about how sleep loss affects your ability to think and changes the helpful bacteria living in your gut. This research will help us to create treatments and strategies for people working long hours under stressful conditions at night (e.g., emergency workers and military personnel).

We are looking for healthy men and women, ages 18–35, to participate in two laboratory visits of approximately 3.7 days each at the CU Boulder Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory.

Compensation up to $1,680.

For study details, email sleep.study@colorado.edu and ask about the Navy study.

The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting children 9-16 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how children hear. During the testing, your child will sit in a sound-treated room and will listen to sounds presented over a speaker or through headphones. Your child will be asked to indicate when they hear sounds by playing games. The sounds we use are not loud. One visit to the laboratory is required. The visit lasts about 1.5 hours. You will receive $10 per hour, and we will pay for 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 the CU Boulder campus.

The Child Research Participant Registry connects families and researchers, so that together we can advance our understanding of human communication and methods to diagnose and treat children who have communication-related challenges. We invite families of children with or without communication challenges to join the registry.

To learn more, or to sign up your child, please visit our webpage.

The research registry is affiliated with the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at CU Boulder.

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at CU Boulder invites applications for faculty grants in all fields of study. Faculty proposing projects for the 2019 summer and/or 2019–20 academic year grant terms must apply by Feb. 15.

All tenured/tenure-track, research faculty and contract instructors at CU Boulder can advance their research, scholarly or creative goals while providing engaging experiences for undergraduates with the following faculty grant types:

• Team Grants: Provide up to $3,000 to form student teams for collaborative projects
• Publications Grants: Provide up to $3,000 to support venues for undergraduate research, scholarly and creative work
• Department Development Grants: Provide up to $4,000 to advance the undergraduate research, scholarly and creative mission of a department or program

The Emotive Computing Lab at CU Boulder is looking for participants for a study of collaboration. 

You are eligible to participant in this research study if you:

• Are a CU Boulder student at least 18 years of age
• Speak English
• Do not have significant and uncorrected vision impairments
• Have not previously played Physics Playground or a similar game (e.g., Crayon Physics Deluxe, Magic Pen) for more than an hour

The study contains two parts: 

1. An at-home portion where you fill out some surveys and practice the game (lasting one hour)
2. A visit to the lab, which will be scheduled at a mutually convenient time (lasting two hours)

You will receive payment after participating in both parts of the study. You will be compensated with $50 in Amazon gift cards.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Caroline at emotivecomputing.cps2@gmail.com for more information.
 

Interested in your moods and brain? Participate in a paid neuroimaging study to understand your own emotions and the emotions of others on the CU Boulder campus in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience (IRB# 17-0358).

Earn between $15 and $25 per hour to participate in studies involving answering questions about your thoughts and feelings, watching brief videos, playing computer games and having an MRI brain scan taken. Study includes up to three separate visits (first is 4-5 hours, second is 3 hours, third is 1-2 hours). Option for additional paid follow-ups.

To qualify, you must be between the ages of 18 and 55 years old and either have:

• A diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• A history of depression
• No history of mental health conditions

Please fill out the brief survey to apply.

If you have questions, please contact us at gruberpeplab@colorado.edu or 303-735-7547.

The Graduate School will host its second annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition 3–5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in UMC 235.

Come cheer on grad student finalists as they present their research in three minutes to a panel of judges and vie for prizes in research funding. Cast your vote for the people’s choice award.

All full-time, degree-seeking CU Boulder undergraduates working under the mentorship of an eligible faculty mentor in any field of study (major) may apply for the following student grant types:

• Assistantships (with stipends from $1,000 to $2,000) allow students to assist a mentor on a project and do not require an original proposal.
• Individual Grants (with stipends from $1,500 to $3,000) allow students to take ownership of part or all of a project with an original proposal.

Students proposing projects for the 2019 summer and/or 2019–20 academic year grant terms must apply by Feb. 15.

Enter the Center for the American West’s spring’s writing contest on Western American topics in any of these genres—poetry, memoir, fiction, creative or academic nonfiction—for a chance to win one of five $500 prizes. Five $500 prizes will be awarded. 

For contest rules and more information, visit the center online. Open to graduate students and undergraduates. Entries due by March 19.

Are you an undergraduate woman interested in a career in the earth systems and environmental sciences? The earth systems and environmental sciences include topics such as the earth, its atmosphere and oceans, energy, air quality, climate, water and natural resource management, and natural disaster forecasting.

If yes, then we would like to invite you to participate in a one-day professional development workshop at Colorado State University; meals and transportation provided. The workshop is part of a study to identify ways to support women’s interest in earth systems and environmental science careers through the National Science Foundation funded PROGRESS (PROmoting Geoscience Research Education and SuccesS) program. The workshop will be held on either the Saturday or the Sunday during the weekend of Feb. 9 and 10.

If you are interested in participating in one of these single-day workshops, please complete the brief online application (will take less than 5 minutes to complete).

This project is being funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant# DUE-1431795). For questions, please contact Emily Fischer, principle investigator of the PROmoting Geoscience Research Education and SuccesS (PROGRESS) Program and assistant professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University at 970-491-8587 or evf@rams.colostate.edu, or reach out to Program Coordinator Ilana Pollack at ipollack@rams.colostate.edu.

Volunteers are needed for a study at the Hearing and Epidemiology and Research Diagnostics Laboratory investigating potential effects of cardiovascular health on the auditory system. 
 
We are recruiting men ages 18–30 who have normal hearing and do not smoke tobacco or use other drugs. 
 
Participants will receive a comprehensive hearing evaluation and physical examination with blood draw. Participants are compensated $15 per hour for up to five hours of testing. 

Interested? Email Kailey Durkin at heardlab@colorado.edu or call 303-735-7127 to see if you qualify or for more information.

Interested in your moods and brain? Participate in a paid neuroimaging study to understand your own emotions and the emotions of others on the CU Boulder campus in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience (IRB# 17-0358).

Earn between $15 and $25 per hour to participate in studies involving answering questions about your thoughts and feelings, watching brief videos, playing computer games and having an MRI brain scan taken. Study includes up to three separate visits (first is 4–5 hours, second is 3 hours, third is 1–2 hours). Option for additional paid follow-ups.

To qualify, you must be between the ages of 18 and 55 years old and either have:

• Diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• History of depression
• No history of mental health conditions

Please fill out the brief survey to apply.

If you have questions, please contact us: gruberpeplab@colorado.edu or 303-735-7547.

Interested in your moods and brain? Participate in a paid neuroimaging study to understand your own emotions and the emotions of others on the CU Boulder campus in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience (IRB# 17-0358).

Earn between $15 and $25 per hour to participate in studies involving answering questions about your thoughts and feelings, watching brief videos, playing computer games and having an MRI brain scan taken. Study includes up to three separate visits (first is 4–5 hours; second is 3 hours; third is 1–2 hours). Option for additional paid follow-ups.

To qualify, you must be between the ages of 18 and 55 years old and either have:

• Diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• History of depression
• No history of mental health conditions

Please fill out the brief survey to apply.

If you have questions, please contact us: gruberpeplab@colorado.edu or 303-735-7547.