The Department of Human Resources (HR) will be closed on Friday, July 14, for an annual employee retreat. HR will reopen and respond promptly to voicemail and email messages on Monday, July 17, at 7:30 a.m.

Are you a CU Boulder student? Would you like a $10 Amazon gift card in exchange for about 60 minutes of your time? The University Libraries are studying e-books to understand how students use them and what they like or dislike about them.

If you are interested in participating in this study, occurring in Norlin Library, please fill out the form.

Want to receive a big packet of legally required notices in the mail? This year, you don't have to; opt in to receive them electronically.

Instead of paper handouts, we'll email you when new notices are available. Plus, they'll be stored in your employee portal, where you can access them at any time—saving paper and space in your mailbox.

Visit Employee Services online to learn more and sign up to receive electronic benefits notices.

The bursar and financial aid offices (including Student Employment and Scholarship Services) will close at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 11, for a staff event. All offices will open as scheduled on Wednesday, July 12, at 9 a.m. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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. For more information or to sign up, see our information below or call us at 303-492-6389.

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 at the Center for Community noted below.

Friday, July 14
1 to 3 p.m.
C4C, room S484

Monday, Aug. 7
1 to 3 p.m.
C4C, room S484

The campus WWWLegacy service will be moved to new storage on Saturday, July 8, from 8 a.m. to noon. Websites on the legacy server (these are websites built as HTML sites or using a CGI script) will be unavailable for approximately 90 minutes starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, however, a four-hour maintenance window has been reserved in the event that a longer outage is necessary. This work does not impact sites on the Web Express platform. Web Express websites are on a different server and will not have any scheduled downtime during this timeframe.

If you suffer from chronic back pain you may be eligible to participate in a paid research study on the benefits of a novel mind-body treatment for chronic pain. The research study consists of two MRI scan sessions four to six weeks apart on the CU Boulder campus, before and after treatment. Participants will be compensated $225.

MRI is safe and non-invasive technology for measuring brain function, and participants will be given a photo of their brain to take home. The treatment will be administered at the Interventional Pain Management clinic at the University of Colorado Hospital at the Anschutz Denver metro campus.

Eligibility criteria:

• Age 21–70
• Back pain for the last three months or more
• No metal in the body (for MRI safety)
• No opioid use for more than four weeks in the past two years; opioids include common prescription painkillers like oxycodone (Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin) and meperidine
• Not pregnant due to unclear effects of MRI on a fetus

If you are interested, please email canlab@colorado.edu or call 303-492-4299.

If you schedule numerous meetings with numerous attendees, have delegated access for creating or editing meetings, or create or edit meetings from a mobile device, then the new "Exchange Online Calendaring Best Practices" guide developed by the Office of Information Technology (OIT) is highly recommended reading.

The best practices include recommendations for creating and editing meetings, responding to meeting requests, scheduling resources, recurring meetings, delegated calendaring and more.

Read the calendaring best practices guide online now.

Any student who opens a spring 2018 CU Boulder study abroad application by Friday, July 21, will be entered into a drawing to win one of two $500 scholarships! Not on campus over summer break but still want a chance to win? That’s OK! You can complete Study Abroad 101 online and receive advising from study abroad advisors via live chat, email (abroad@colorado.edu) or phone! Visit our website for more information on how to get started. The winner will receive funds once they are accepted and committed to their study abroad program.

The CU Museum of Natural History will be closed Tuesday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day.

The University of Colorado Hearing Research Laboratory is seeking adults with hearing loss to participate in a study on sound perception. The study investigates the perception of sound processed through hearing aids. Testing will take place on the CU Boulder campus. Listeners will be compensated for their time. For more information, email hearlab@colorado.edu or call 303-492-0067.

This is a five-hour study broken up into two sessions (two and a half hours each). Compensation is $10 per hour plus a $15 dollar bonus upon completion of the second part ($65 total). In the first session you would be wearing a cap with sensors that record the electrical activity on your scalp (EEG) while you read sentences and answer questions on a computer screen. In the second session, you would be doing various tasks on a computer (without the EEG cap). The requirements for participating in the study are that you are: right-handed, university student or recent graduate, native English speaker (English primary language from age 5 to present), age 18-35, not taking psychiatric medications and have normal or corrected-to-normal vision. Our lab is located north of East Campus at the Center for Innovation and Creativity (CINC), 1777 Exposition Drive, Boulder, CO 80301. If you have any questions or would like to sign up for this experiment, please email kimerplab@gmail.com

The campus WWWLegacy service will be moved to new storage on Saturday, July 8, from 8 a.m. to noon. Websites on WWWLegacy will be unavailable for approximately 90 minutes starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, however, a four-hour maintenance window has been reserved in the event that a longer outage is necessary.

The Social Neuroscience and Games Lab (SNaG) is seeking individuals between the ages of 18 to 35 to participate as behavioral subjects in a study for one to two hours. Participants will play several games with other individuals for money and complete a series of questionnaires. Participants will be paid $10 an hour for participating and will have the opportunity to earn bonus money for their performance in the games. For more information or to sign up for a session, please email cu.snaglab.968@gmail.com with your name and age.