Faculty-Staff Edition - Aug. 19, 2020 | CU Boulder Today

Faculty-Staff Edition - Aug. 19, 2020

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Campus Operating Status

Visit the听听for updates on resources, preparedness and the campus operational status dashboard.

Campus Community

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Instructors: Check your course accessibility

As you start the new semester, keep accessibility in mind. Creating course materials that are accessible helps all students in your classes, including students with disabilities. Use this checklist to help you get started.

Facilitate student engagement with Canvas Studio

Tech Tips Campus Community

Canvas Studio allows instructors and students to actively engage with video and audio content by commenting directly on the media timeline.

Researching communication and social justice with the University Libraries

Education & Outreach News Headlines

In a recent CU Boulder Where You Are discussion, Lawrence Frey addressed how scholars can strive to make a difference鈥攏ot just hope others will use their research to make a difference鈥攊n how we talk about social justice initiatives.

Events & Exhibits

Staff Council holding CU blood drives in Boulder, Westminster

General Events & Exhibits

The next CU blood drive will be Aug. 22 to Sept. 6. Donors who send a photo of themselves wearing CU apparel during their donation are entered to win one of four Amazon gift cards.

Join TEDxCU for The Pale Blue Dot Sept. 13

General Events & Exhibits

In 1990, NASA鈥檚 Voyager 1 took an image of Earth from 4 billion miles away. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this iconic image, TEDxCU 2020 speakers will inspire and challenge us to think about how our past and present could shape our future.

Flags outside the Conference on World Affairs

Conference on World Affairs to present student-led events on leadership, human connection

General Events & Exhibits

The Conference on World Affairs will host virtual sessions Sept. 10鈥�11. The event themes will include leadership and human connection. Join for the two days, eight sessions and 20-plus speakers.

Molecular, cellular and developmental biology graduate student Quing Yang examines samples as part of the process of a rapid, portable saliva-based COVID-19 test able to return results in 45 minutes in the Sawyer lab at the Biofrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder . (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

Webinars dig into the research shaping CU Boulder's COVID-19-ready campus

Science & Technology Buffs Together News Headlines

Learn what we know about COVID-19 from some of CU Boulder's top researchers and operational experts, and how they're helping put science into practice for a safer return. Full recordings of the in-depth discussions from a recent webinar series are available.

What We're Reading

From Dean Banks: Welcome back, Buffs!

Grad student advancing the aerodynamics of wind听turbines

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