In-person Conference on World Affairs panel in 2019

Conference on World Affairs to return in person and online April 6–9

March 1, 2022

The Conference on World Affairs will return in person with most sessions available via livestream online. One hundred diverse speakers and performers will participate in 125 panel discussions, performances and keynote events on the CU Boulder campus.

Sun peaks through clouds over snow-covered Flatirons

Faculty assembly announces excellence award winners

March 1, 2022

The Boulder Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce its 2022 awards, with winners in the categories of excellence in research, scholarly and creative work; leadership and service; and teaching and pedagogy.

Ken Washington

How a Stanford student prompted CU to challenge discrimination

March 1, 2022

In April 1965, the Stanford University chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity invited Ken Washington to become a member. This flouted the fraternity’s longstanding whites-only policy, and the fallout reverberated across the nation, generating a controversy and legal challenge in Boulder, Colorado.

Judge Katanji Brown Jackson

5 questions: Understanding the magnitude of Biden's pick—Ketanji Brown Jackson

Feb. 28, 2022

Professor Suzette Malveaux explains the historic nature of President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nomination, what Ketanji Brown Jackson would add to the Supreme Court and the challenges she may face in confirmation.

Danu ensemble

Authentic, fiery and wholehearted: Danú to perform March 16

Feb. 28, 2022

Danú, one of today’s leading traditional Irish ensembles, will present a vibrant performance in a celebration of traditional and contemporary Irish music, just in time for St. Patrick's Day.

Employees in a meeting

Ombuds ‘lunch and learn’ March 22: Keeping conflict productive

Feb. 28, 2022

In this virtual skill building “lunch and learn” presented by Jenn Mahoney, learn where defensiveness comes from, explore what the likely triggers are, and discover a plan for how to disrupt it in the moment.

Young professionals

3 free online career tools for grad students

Feb. 28, 2022

Whether you’re exploring careers outside of academia or gearing up for your industry job search, there are resources to help. Here are three on-demand career tools for graduate students to learn about career options, network and feel more confident with interviewing.

Kobe Bryant memorial

What do we owe the dead? Truth, philosopher says

Feb. 28, 2022

CU Boulder’s Iskra Fileva has won the Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest for her 2020 essay about the dust-up surrounding Kobe Bryant’s death and life, exploring the social pressure to pretend those who have died were good people.

Stock image of a prison

Virtual panel March 9 to featurecreators of the Incarceration Transparency database

Feb. 28, 2022

The CODE:SWITCH Speaker Series brings professors Andrea Armstrong and Judson Mitchell and student collaborators from Loyola University to discuss their collaborative effort to create the Incarceration Transparency database.

Artist’s rendition of the NOAA GOES satellite

Go for launch: GOES satellite includes instrument built at CU Boulder

Feb. 28, 2022

The satellite carries a state-of-the-art solar monitor built at CU Boulder to protect national technology assets from space weather hazards. Read more from LASP senior scientist Frank Eparvier.

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