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 SCENE is for all of us working in science and environmental communication, outreach, and engagement. It is brought to you by the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavioral Change (C3BC). Please contact us with info and events to share in future biweekly issues.
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Events
Outreach and Engagment Professionals Network (OEPN)
Grant writing workshop series
Grant-writing can be a difficult business, but the OEPN's workshop series is tailored specifically to making the process a little easier and more fruitful. Experts from the Research & Innovation Office, Office for Contracts and Grants, and nonprofit sector are on tap to share resources, offer best practices, and help us do the work in real time of writing successful funding proposals. Open to all CU people.
- Thursday, October 20, 1:00-2:00 p.m. online: Intro to proposal writing & the grants process at CU Boulder. Register online.
- Thursday, November 10, 2:00-3:30 p.m. in person (CASE): Grant writing for success. Register online.
Coming next spring: Integrating DEI into Outreach & Engagement Programming, a three-part workshop series offered in partnership with the Office for Social and Cultural Inclusion. Stay tuned for more details.
Coffee & Conversations on Community Engagement
How are you connecting undergraduate teaching and learning to communities?
Thursday, October 20, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
CASE E390 (Center for Teaching and Learning room)
CU Boulder main campus
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to the Coffee and Conversations on Community Engagement series, which explores themes in community-engaged scholarship--from the language we use to social issues we address to how we build relationships with external community partners. These informal events are designed for conversation and opportunities to workshop ideas. We learn together with help from colleagues across campus, as well as staff from the Office for Outreach and Engagement and CU Engage. Those new to outreach and community-engaged scholarship and veteran practitioners are welcome. The series is hosted by the Office for Outreach and Engagement, in collaboration with CU Engage, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Volunteer Resource Center. Register on the event page.
Social Science and Sustainability Technology Workshop
Friday, October 21, 9:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Kittredge Central Hall
2480 Kittredge Loop Drive
CU Boulder main campus
Developing and deploying new technologies will be key to decoupling the dramatic improvements of the past century in human material well-being from their environmental impacts. Developing and deploying sustainability technologies at scale is a complex social, political, and engineering challenge. Please join us for an in-person workshop that will bring together North American thought leaders working on the social science aspects of this challenge. Sponsored by the CIRES Center for Social and Environmental Futures (C-SEF) and the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC). Visit the Eventbrite page to see the topics and speakers and to register for this free event.
CU on the Weekend
What do you do when the earth shakes? Children, adults, and generational gaps in protective action behavior
Saturday, October 22, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
CASE building, 4th floor auditorium
Lori Peek, director of the Natural Hazards Center, will share her research team's study of how people react during a crisis, and whether they remember and follow guidance given during drills commonly conducted in K-12 classrooms. The team conducted in-depth interviews after the 2018 Anchorage, Alaska earthquake and the 2019 Ridgecrest, California earthquakes. Peek will share what children and adults did in the earthquakes, as well as the factors that shaped whether they took the correct recommended protective actions. She will also explain how the findings from this study can help inform our understanding of risk communication and preparedness for other hazards such as wildfires, floods and tornadoes. See more and register on the Office for Outreach and Engagement website.
Community-engaged scholarship showcase
Saturday, October 22, 2:30-4:15 p.m.
CASE building, 4th floor Chancellor's Hall
The showcase will immediately follow Lori Peek’s CU on the Weekend lecture (above). Audience members will have the opportunity to talk with CU Boulder faculty, staff and students conducting community-engaged scholarship related to the implications of climate change. Many of the presented projects will be related to community-engaged scholarship and the Marshall Fire. The Office for Outreach and Engagement is producing the showcase and Peek’s lecture in partnership with RIO’s Research & Innovation Week, October 17-22. See more and register on the event webpage.
Open Access Week
Open for Climate Justice
Monday, October 24 - Friday, October 29
Online and Norlin Library
Don't miss a slate of stellar events organized by the CU Libraries around open access and climate justice. Talks, discussions, even an online game explore the importance of openly sharing knowledge to address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them. Hear from Catherine Stihler, CEO of Creative Commons; Martin Halbert, Science Advisor for Public Access for the National Science Foundation (NSF); Beth Osnes (THTR/C3BC/Inside the Greenhouse) on the online resources in Enacting Climate; and Max Boykoff (ENVS/C3BC/Inside the Greenhouse) on the Media and Climate Change Observatory. Read all about it on the Libraries' website.
Campus Green Tour
Monday, October 24, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Meet at the Environmental Center, UMC 355
Come see the features that make CU Boulder one of the most sustainable campuses in the nation! We will visit pollinator gardens, bike stations, solar panels, our on-campus recycling facility and more. Be prepared to walk all over campus and get to know it better in the process. Hosted by the Environmental Center. Registration is required.
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Opportunities
Climate justice and human rights insights will inspire you to take action
“We all have a responsibility to care.”
Inspired by a recent story collection in the Coloradan, “Justice for Earth, Justice for Humans,” CU faculty shared insights and research at the event Coloradan Conversations: Climate Change and Its Impact on Human Rights. In case you missed it in person, the entire event is now available online in video format. Listen to presentations by Emily Yeh (GEOG), Clint Carroll (CNAIS/ETHN), and Phaedra Pezzullo (C3BC/COMM). Be inspired to take action with resources from our speakers. Read the CU Boulder Today story and watch presentations one by one, or see the entire event.
Research & Innovation Week happening now
Hosted by the Research and Innovation Office (RIO) and featuring events for students, faculty, staff and the community, the week's worth of events returns to its predominantly in-person format this week. Events showcase research, scholarship and creative work from across the campus and demonstrate the broad impact of the research and innovation enterprise at CU Boulder. Events include the Sidewalk Symposium, where student present their research using chalk murals, and TED-style talks on Innovation for the Future of Humanity. See details and register for events and tours on the campus announcement webpage.
Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education free to CU Boulder people
All CU Boulder faculty, staff and students receive free access to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE’s) virtual Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (GCSHE). CU Boulder is a host institution for 2022 GCSHE. This opportunity is made possible by Vice Chancellor for Infrastructure and Sustainability and the CUSG Environmental Center. The conference is the largest stage to exchange effective models, policies, research, collaborations and transformative actions that advance sustainability in higher education and surrounding communities. Live content is available October 18, October 26 and November 3; and on-demand content is available through December 31. Register by November 3 to access on-demand content.
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Art exhibits
Water is Life
Through November 19
Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut Street, Boulder
$5 requested donation
Visit the Dairy Arts Center to experience Water is Life, with powerful work by artists committed to protecting and educating others about the importance of water to the collective human species, and to listening to what Earth is telling us about our common home. Curated by JayCee Beyale and Creative Nations. See the exhibit webpage for more.
Pikas, Prairies, and the Climate Crisis
Through January 8
Museum of Boulder
2205 Broadway, Boulder
$10 adults; $8 seniors/youth/college students; free under 5 and SNAP cardholders
This exhibit explores the surprising connections between Colorado’s shortgrass prairies and the American pika. Pikas, a cold-loving species that live in the high-altitude mountains, are threatened by warming temperatures and diminishing snowpack. Their survival may depend on our ability to protect a place hundreds of miles from their alpine home—the Great Plains. Visitors will learn about conservation efforts to connect the dots between these two diverse areas, as well as ways that they can become involved in protecting pika, prairies, pronghorn, and more. See the exhibit webpage for more.
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