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At its Feb. 11 meeting, the CU Board of Regents voted to approve the new names of a pair of buildings and held a preliminary discussion on tuition, fees and compensation. The board also formally recognized members of the 2020 cohort of distinguished professors.

Approved are the new names of two buildings––one after pioneering alumna and lifelong educator Lucile Berkeley Buchanan and another after Professor Emeritus Albert Ramírez and his late wife, Vera, who for many years provided support, mentorship and guidance to first-generation and other underrepresented students.

Through the spring semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: Mobile testing; expert advice on face coverings; Buff Pass upgrades; and more.

Chancellor Philip DiStefano, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Akirah Bradley and Professor and Renée Crown Wellness Institute Director Sona Dimidjian discussed mental health challenges, how we are addressing them as a university and how we can care for our personal wellness challenges.

On behalf of the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ and city of Boulder police departments, Chief Doreen Jokerst and Chief Maris Herold welcome you back. Our departments work together to provide all Buffs with a safe environment in which to learn and live.

Eligible for nomination are faculty, staff, students, alumni and departments. Recognize people's outstanding efforts to help ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ continue and improve its sustainability stewardship. Nominate by March 5.

The National Academy of Inventors announced that ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ researchers Mark Rentschler, Greg Rieker and Tin Tin Su have been designated as NAI senior members, in recognition of their impact on society through extraordinary innovation.

New kinds of liquid crystals developed at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ resemble gypsum or lazulite crystals—except they flow like fluids.

A team of engineers has developed a new device that you can wear like a ring or bracelet and that harvests energy from your own body heat.

Since the 1980s, Colorado's small mammals have made an ominous trek—climbing, on average, 400 feet uphill in elevation to escape from climate change.