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CU Boulder leaders briefed city council members and officials during a virtual meeting about the campus’s preparations for the return of students, faculty and staff in mid-August.

Staff members: Attend a forum with campus leadership to hear about the state of the campus, actions affecting personnel and more. Staff Council wants to help keep you in the know.

Campus leadership announced that the on-campus events moratorium will be extended through at least Aug. 16. The moratorium had been slated to run through July 31.

As the campus community prepares for a COVID-19-ready fall semester, the implementation teams of the Road Map to Fall 2020 share regular updates. In this issue: disinfecting foggers, hybrid classrooms for in-person and remote individuals, course pre-registration and more.

With students, faculty and staff preparing to return to campus this fall and some already on campus, CU Boulder is launching a public health awareness and accountability campaign called Protect Our Herd aimed at normalizing behaviors to curb the spread of COVID-19 on campus and in the broader community.

Upcoming events of particular interest to graduate students include a creative writing and academic jargon workshop and the August writing retreat. Get details.

To augment this week’s topic for CU Boulder Where You Are with Cassandra Brooks, Librarian Philip White has organized additional resources for viewers to explore online.

The University Libraries will provide access to course reserve materials in electronic form only for the fall semester. Instructors are encouraged to submit their requests for class materials as soon as possible.

The St. Patrick Bay ice caps on the Hazen Plateau of northeastern Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, have completely disappeared, according to NASA satellite imagery.

New, first-of-its-kind research shows that climate change is driving increasing amounts of freshwater in the Arctic Ocean, which could disrupt ocean currents and affect temperatures in northern Europe.