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Change can be hard. In this workshop, you will learn about the process individuals go through when contemplating change, how to best support students and staff at each stage and more. Join this Staff Council speaker series event.

Comedian, actress and Saturday Night Live cast member Chloe Fineman will entertain CU Boulder students during a virtual conversation, followed by a moderated Q&A with performer Jake Nordwind. The free event is open only to current CU Boulder students.

The next Campus Q&A will focus on students and families and discussion of plans for the fall, including class schedules, registration and on-campus activities. There will be updates on vaccines and public health and safety guidelines, as well as closing thoughts on the spring semester.

In this virtual lecture on April 29, Clinical Professor Ann England and Anne-Marie Moyes, director of the Korey Wise Innocence Project, will examine the role of race in wrongful convictions—why they happen more to people of color, how race informs the lack of adequate reforms and more.

In the past six years, the U.S. has witnessed enormous changes concerning the public acceptance and availability of cannabis. Hear more from Professor Kent Hutchison in his Distinguished Research Lecture.

Register for this virtual lecture, in which Distinguished Professor Lorrie Shepard offers a brief history of learning research—including late-20th-century cognitive research and more contemporary research in the learning sciences—while sharing findings from her own work and that of CU colleagues.

With a focus this week on faculty and staff, CU leaders will discuss the new county dial for COVID-19, and provide vaccine and other updates on fall classes and the return to campus.

In this talk, LASP scientist and MAVEN principal investigator Bruce Jakosky will discuss recent, ongoing and future Mars exploration, international collaboration, possible human missions and whether we can change the Martian climate to better allow humans to survive on the surface.

Staff Council will host adventurer Scott Robinson for a travelogue of his five-month expedition down the Missouri River from Three Forks, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. Scott will share photos and stories of this epic 2,341-mile journey.

On April 15, two politicians turned university presidents, including CU system's Mark Kennedy, will virtually meet to discuss bipartisanship and their enduring friendship as part of an ongoing series.