Graduate Student Edition - Oct. 9, 2023
Campus Community
17 things to do: Catch a midnight mystery movie and more
This week brings free cereal, Indigenous Peoples’ Day events, Family Game Night, insight into the life of a grad student, Queers and Cake, a cooking class, the October Community Gathering, live music and more.
Time for a cybersecurity health check
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Tap into CU’s resources that will help you protect your personal information and accounts at school, work and home.
Research Updates
Call them UFOs or UAPs, scientists need better data
During a packed event, a panel of journalists and scientists called for removing the stigma around studying unidentified anomalous phenomena—such as strange blips that zoom across the instruments of fighter jets or even mysterious lights in the night sky.
Post-Roe, contraception could be next
During a panel at Science Writers 2023, CU researchers warned the Dobbs decision, which repealed the constitutional right to an abortion, could also limit access to birth control.
New observations of flares from distant star could help in search for habitable planets
The star TRAPPIST-1 sits roughly 40 light-years from Earth. It's barely bigger than the planet Jupiter, but it shoots out giant flares several times a day. New observations of these eruptions could help scientists detect atmospheres around a host of far-awayÌýplanets.
Faculty Takes
A ‘ring of fire’ eclipse is coming. Here’s how to watch
Sky gazers in parts of the United States will see two solar eclipses in the next year, beginning with an annular, or "ring of fire," eclipse on Oct. 14. John Keller, director of the Fiske Planetarium, gives his take on what makes these events so exciting—and how you can observe them safely.
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