Events & Exhibits
- Ten Core Facilities Assistance Grants totaling $200,000 have been awarded to 14 new core facility-led projects for the 2023 cycle. Stop by the Shared Instrumentation Network’s open house and local industry fair on Tuesday, June 6.
- Join a letter writing campaign to build awareness about the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.
- Four new short, science-based plays debut online this weekend, about everything from pikas and tsunamis to cannibalism.
- Fiske Planetarium is debuting two new exhibits designed by students that will give visitors a chance to get up close and personal with Earth's favorite star.
- CU Boulder will host the first field hearing of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on Thursday, Aug. 1; clean energy transition will be the topic of the hearing.
- Applications are now open for the first annual ComSciCon Rocky Mountain West event, which will offer grad students and post-docs the chance to learn science communication from industry professionals and faculty mentors. The event is scheduled for Sept. 23-24, 2017.
- CIRES director Waleed Abdelati hosts and narrates "The Crowd and the Cloud," a new documentary series focusing on citizen science. The series premieres Thursday, April 6.
- Expected to address Brexit, a British consul will give a talk on campus March 14 highlighting economic and policy ties between the U.K., Colorado and the university.
- Chief Wilton Littlechild will deliver a public lecture focusing on indigenous entrepreneurship and the importance of indigenous access to business and financial services in a global economy. He is an honorary chief of the Maskwacis Cree First Nation, a former Canadian senator and a decorated rights advocate who has has served the United Nations for decades.
- For its 69th season, the iconic Conference on World Affairs (CWA) will bring speakers from 18 countries to campus to discuss issues ranging from space exploration and nuclear policy to the long-term health impacts of professional sports. The conference, which is free and open to the public, will be held April 10 to 14.