Faculty-Staff Edition - Aug. 9, 2022
Campus Community
Are you ready for Fall Welcome?
About 8,000 new students and their families will arrive on campus next week, marking the start of Fall Welcome. Here鈥檚 what faculty and staff need to know to get ready.
CU Employee Services: Staff with student debt should try Savi
As a CU employee, you may qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness鈥攁 program that rewards college graduates who work in the public sector. CU is a qualifying employer and has a partnership with Savi. Explore whether you qualify for up to total loan forgiveness.
Research in Your Backyard
How Pelosi鈥檚 visit to Taiwan impacts Chinese-American relations
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Taiwan has fueled a mounting crisis between China and the United States. William Wei, professor of modern Chinese history, spoke about the significance of Pelosi鈥檚 visit and its implications on Chinese-American relations.
Incentives not a guarantee of more US-made semiconductors
A $52 billion federal package to incentivize U.S. production of semiconductor chips has energized the high-tech sector, but experts aren鈥檛 convinced it will be the end to dramatic shortages that have created pain points throughout the supply chain.
Scientists call for 鈥榃estern Rewilding Network鈥 to support wolf, beaver populations, improve biodiversity on public lands
In a paper published this week, 桃色视频 Professor Joanna Lambert and 19 other scientists call for a portion of federal land in 11 states to be used to 鈥榬ewild鈥 the American West.
Events & Exhibits
Abominations: Why hasn鈥檛 Lionel Shriver been canceled already?
Join Aug. 31 as controversial novelist and commentator Lionel Shriver, in conversation with Benjamin Teitelbaum, discusses her first nonfiction book 鈥淎bominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction.鈥
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