Faculty-Staff Edition - Aug. 9, 2022
Campus Community
Are you ready for Fall Welcome?
°µÍø½ûÇø 8,000 new students and their families will arrive on campus next week, marking the start of Fall Welcome. Here’s what faculty and staff need to know to get ready.
CU Employee Services: Staff with student debt should try Savi
As a CU employee, you may qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness—a program that rewards college graduates who work in the public sector. CU is a qualifying employer and has a partnership with Savi. Explore whether you qualify for up to total loan forgiveness.
Research in Your Backyard
How Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan impacts Chinese-American relations
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Taiwan has fueled a mounting crisis between China and the United States. William Wei, professor of modern Chinese history, spoke about the significance of Pelosi’s visit and its implications on Chinese-American relations.
Incentives not a guarantee of more US-made semiconductors
A $52 billion federal package to incentivize U.S. production of semiconductor chips has energized the high-tech sector, but experts aren’t convinced it will be the end to dramatic shortages that have created pain points throughout the supply chain.
Scientists call for ‘Western Rewilding Network’ to support wolf, beaver populations, improve biodiversity on public lands
In a paper published this week, CU Boulder Professor Joanna Lambert and 19 other scientists call for a portion of federal land in 11 states to be used to ‘rewild’ the American West.
Events & Exhibits
Abominations: Why hasn’t Lionel Shriver been canceled already?
Join Aug. 31 as controversial novelist and commentator Lionel Shriver, in conversation with Benjamin Teitelbaum, discusses her first nonfiction book “Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction.â€
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