Graduate Student Edition - Feb. 22, 2023
Campus Community
What to know about how campus emergency notifications work
The campus’s new practice of alerting stakeholders to off-campus incidents can raise questions about the nature, reasoning and terminology of notifications, as evidenced this week. CU Boulder Police Chief Doreen Jokerst discusses.
CU Boulder commencement set for May 11
Thousands of degrees will be awarded at commencement on May 11. The tradition-filled ceremony is designed for the campus community, families and friends to honor the remarkable graduates. Alumni who graduated during winter conferral in December of 2022 are invited to attend as well.
Research in Your Backyard
Scientists may have solved a Chaco Canyon mystery by hauling logs with their heads
Roughly 1,000 years ago, ancient peoples carried more than 200,000 heavy timbers entirely on foot to a site in the modern-day Four Corners region called Chaco Canyon. CU Boulder researchers think they know how such a feat of human endurance may have been possible.
Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist
In a new study, CU Boulder astrophysicist Erica Nelson and her colleagues spotted six "fuzzy dots" of light in images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The candidate galaxies may have existed just 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang and contain almost as many stars as the Milky Way.
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