Graduate Student Edition - April 12, 2021
Six ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ startups—HUG Solutions, LGBT50, Orbital Biodesign, Sarus, Seedling Biosystems and Toobtek—will vie for their portion of $100,000 in funding at 5:30 p.m. April 13 via Zoom. Register to attend.
Campus Community
A house run on the sun: How a team of CU students SPARC-ed advances for modern mountain housing
A modest new house in Fraser, Colorado—considered the coldest town in the lower-48—is no ordinary home. With it, a team of Buffs will compete this week in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon for the first time since 2007.
Events & Exhibits
10 things to do this week: Diamond painting,Ìý‘E.T.’ movie, more
This week brings Program Council's Behind the Music with Dayglow, a networking workshop, a volunteer Buff meet-up, Startups2Students, free basketball at The Rec and more.
This week's Campus Q&A—join at noon April 13
With a focus this week on students and families, CU leaders will discuss plans for the fall, including class schedules, registration and course modalities. There will also be updates on vaccines, the University Hill neighborhood and King Soopers tragedy.
Coded Bias: A virtual film screening and discussion April 16
Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini´s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces and women accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Face to face with the radical right: A lecture April 24
Register for this virtual CU on the Weekend talk in which Assistant Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum will discuss his ethnographic research working directly with radical right idealogues.
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