Faculty-Staff Edition - Sept. 30, 2022
Campus Community
Sexual misconduct town hall engages campus community in ongoing issue
Campus experts answered questions and broke down the results of the latest campuswide Sexual Misconduct Survey at a town hall earlier this week. Read an overview.
$10.9M grant supports underrepresented Denver-metro students pursuing engineering careers
A grant from the Office of Naval Research in the U.S. Department of Defense will support five Denver-metro community colleges and two universities in an initiative to increase the number of community college students who pursue engineering careers—particularly those from underrepresented populations.
University Libraries reveal new wellbeing, sexual health collection
A new pilot collection includes over 125 titles related to mental health, wellness and sexual health, including New York Times bestsellers such as “Between Two Kingdoms” by Suleika Jaouad.
Research in Your Backyard
Another monkey virus could be poised for spillover to humans, new study shows
Arteriviruses, which are already common in African monkeys and known to cause fatal outbreaks, appear to have learned how to access human cells, replicate and evade human immune systems—a warning sign these could become next in a long line of viruses to jump from nonhuman primates to people, new laboratory research shows.
4 easy ways to reduce your risk of severe COVID-19
New research highlights how taming chronic, low-level inflammation through diet, exercise, rest and stress management could help fend off serious and lasting impacts of the virus.
Rover findings offer glimpse of Red Planet’s ancient landscape
CU Boulder geologist Lisa Mayhew serves on the science team for NASA’s Perseverance rover, an intrepid machine that has crossed over nearly 8 miles of the surface of Mars—and is helping to recreate the forces that shaped this planet into what it looks like today.
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Autumn in Boulder: Scenic hikes, Halloween scares, more
Earth scientist wins $2.5M grant to advance geochronology
RASEI represented prominently among Department of Energy centers tackling climate change
How tiny seeds might reduce our huge dependence on fossil fuels
Can AI detect Alzheimer’s earlier? CU researchers combine forces to find out