Faculty-Staff Edition - July 16, 2024
With the baseball season well underway, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder history professor Martin Babicz offers thoughts on why some fans remain loyal to baseball’s perennial losers.
Campus Community
Russell Moore announces dean search, encourages nominations
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s national search for a new dean of its School of Education is underway, with Provost Russell Moore encouraging nominations and applications.
Program bridges students to infrastructure workforce
Kiewit Corporation has extended its design-build scholars program with the College of Engineering and Applied Science for an additional five years with a generous $2.5 million investment, demonstrating a sustained commitment to the success of students.
Campus to welcome largest conference in 19 years
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s Conference Services is set to accommodate the National Order of the Arrow for six days starting July 29. The large-scale event will fill 6,000 campus beds, 500 local hotel rooms and 170 campus event spaces.
Faculty Takes
Seeing what develops from an instantly iconic photo
Assistant Professor Ross Taylor discusses an Associated Press photo, taken by Evan Vucci, in the moments after Donald Trump was shot—and what about its composition makes the image stand out.
Research Updates
Searching for Colorado’s little-known fireflies
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder graduate student Owen Martin grew up in Colorado but had never seen a firefly in the state until three years ago. Now, he and his advisor Orit Peleg are trying to raise awareness of the Rocky Mountain region's glowing and "wonderous" insects.
Dystopian ‘fissures of disaster’ intensify our own world
In a newly published story collection, The Rupture Files, Assistant Professor Nathan Alexander Moore explores identity and community in dystopian worlds.
Events & Exhibits
Participate in an implicit bias training July 23
Learn how our thought processes prioritize certain aspects of our interactions, communication patterns and evaluations, and come away with a variety of strategies that you can use to mitigate implicit bias.
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