Graduate Student Edition - April 1, 2021
Campus Operating Status
1 Thing to Know Today

Through the spring semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: fall semester to mark return to more traditional in-person experience; CU to continue to prioritize earlier vaccine eligibility phases as state distribution expands April 2; more.
Campus Community
Free things to do in April
This month brings fitness classes, casino nights, AAPI Heritage Month events, film screenings, ticket giveaways, College of Music concerts, finals prep, craft nights, career development workshops, the Campus Sustainability Summit, graduation events for seniors and more.
From Chief Jokerst: Supporting our community in many ways
We’re coming together in the CUÌýPolice Department to support our campus and our community in as many different ways as we can. Read more from Police Chief Doreen Jokerst.
Buff Innovator Insights podcast: New episode features Lori Peek
Hear about Lori Peek's formative years in small-town Kansas, her love for teaching and mentoring and how her research is helping us learn from disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 pandemic. Peek is a professor, faculty associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science and the director of the Natural Hazards Center.
Research News
Not a moment to waste: How a resource beneath our campus has been key during COVID-19
A dedicated team of faculty, staff and students has been working around the clock since the start of the fall semester to monitor the virus that causes COVID-19 in our campus wastewater. It's been critical to keeping campus safe during this pandemic, and systems like it could even help us catch the next one.Ìý
How years of international collaboration led to Hope circling Mars
Beginning in 2015, dozens of researchers and engineers from the United Arab Emirates traveled to the foot of the Rocky Mountains to work toward an ambitious goal—to launch the first mission to Mars from an Arab nation.
New online network connects and supports Colorado’s rural entrepreneurs
Many of Colorado's small towns are losing young people as they follow job opportunities in bigger cities. But a new effort is trying to reinvigorate the economies of these tight-knit communities.
Colorado business confidence rebounding to record levels
Business leaders around the state are feeling increasingly hopeful about Colorado's economy, a response to increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates and the easing of public health restrictions.
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