Faculty-Staff Edition - March 31, 2020
Events & Exhibits
Conference on World Affairs to host virtual event April 6–10
While this year's conference was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns, CWA will host a virtual speaker series including Dan Carlin, this year's livestream commencement speaker and the host of the Hardcore History podcast. The speaker sessions will be recorded and available afterward as well.
Campus Community
A voice fit for ‘American Idol’
ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ junior Mollie Isaacs recently competed on season 18 of American Idol after receiving a golden ticket to Hollywood from judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie last November.
Research News
Colorado business optimism hits historic low amid coronavirus pandemic
Colorado business leaders’ optimism dropped to its lowest point in the 17-year history of the Leeds Business Confidence Index, largely due to the coronavirus outbreak.
In politics and pandemics, Russian trolls use fear, anger to drive clicks
A new ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ study shows that Facebook ads developed and shared by Russian trolls around the 2016 election were clicked on nine times more than typical social media ads. The authors say the trolls are likely at it again, as the 2020 election approaches and the COVID-19 pandemic wears on.
Understanding evolution, one chickadee at a time
A ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ researcher has received a $1.75 million NSF grant to study chickadee hybrids.
New mission would provide a road map in the search for alien atmospheres
A new spacecraft could become NASA's nose in space, sniffing out the environments beyond Earth's solar system that might host planets with thick atmospheres.
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