/coloradan/ en /coloradan/2017/09/01/campus-news-briefs-fall-2017 <span>Campus News Briefs - Fall 2017</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-09-01T12:54:01-06:00" title="Friday, September 1, 2017 - 12:54">Fri, 09/01/2017 - 12:54</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/coloradan/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/fall_leaves_2015.cc21.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&amp;itok=Ctn3YkJz" width="1200" height="800" alt="fall scenic "> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/coloradan/taxonomy/term/58"> Campus News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/coloradan/taxonomy/term/880" hreflang="en">Fraternities</a> <a href="/coloradan/taxonomy/term/180" hreflang="en">Plants</a> <a href="/coloradan/taxonomy/term/280" hreflang="en">Science</a> <a href="/coloradan/taxonomy/term/254" hreflang="en">War</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-above"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><div class="ucb-box ucb-box-title-hidden ucb-box-alignment-right ucb-box-style-fill ucb-box-theme-lightgray"><div class="ucb-box-inner"><div class="ucb-box-title">&nbsp;</div><div class="ucb-box-content"><div><h2>CU Herbarium</h2></div><div><div><div><div><p>A botanical library of dried plants, some dating back centuries.</p><p class="supersize">1902</p><p>Year founded</p><p class="supersize">535,000</p><p>Plant specimens, lichens and mosses in collection</p><p class="supersize">1862</p><p>Date on one of the oldest specimens</p><p class="supersize">5</p><p>Years into digitization of collection, housed in Clare Small</p><p class="supersize">50</p><p>Percent of plants digitized so far, approx.</p><p class="supersize">Four</p><p>Days open to public each week</p><p class="supersize">One</p><p>New book about Colorado flora published with help from the Herbarium</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><h2>CU Brings Back Fraternities</h2><p>CU Boulder has established its own Interfraternity Council (IFC), allowing Greek social fraternities to affiliate directly with the university for the first time since 2005.</p><p>Two fraternities are on board for the 2017-18 school year: Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Tau Gamma.</p><p>CU is in talks with others. CU severed ties with social fraternities after pledge Lynn 鈥淕ordie鈥� Bailey Jr. died from alcohol poisoning in 2005. Fraternities formed their own off-campus councils but were denied university privileges.</p><p>鈥淲e know that, for some students, being a member of a fraternity or sorority builds community, provides a support network and frames lasting friendships well beyond their college years,鈥� said CU vice chancellor of student affairs Christina Gonzales.</p><p>Members of the new CU Interfraternity Council must sign an agreement requiring them to follow all university policies.</p><hr><h2>Heard Around Campus</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The functioning of our society is based in large part on our ability to transport food, fuel and other goods&nbsp;鈥� activities that would be severely affected by a nuclear war."</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;鈥� CU Boulder physicist Brian Toon on his latest study concerning nuclear war鈥檚 agricultural and oceanic impacts.&nbsp;</p><hr><h2>What Lives in Your Showerhead?</h2><p>It鈥檚 a fine time to clean your showerhead 鈥� you鈥檒l find an entire microbial ecosystem living there.</p><p>But Noah Fierer wants a sample first.</p><p>The CU Boulder ecology and evolutionary biology professor and colleagues sent 1,500 kits to willing 鈥渃itizen scientists鈥� in nearly every state, Puerto Rico and parts of Europe, enlisting regular folks to swab their showerheads and return the slime samples to CU for DNA testing.</p><p>The researchers are trying to develop a more complete picture of showerhead bacteria communities and the conditions that allow them to thrive. They鈥檒l pay special attention to microbes that cause non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease (NTM).</p><p>For more on this study, click <a href="http://cires.colorado.edu/news/world-inside-your-showerhead" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><hr></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Fraternities, nuclear war and showerhead ecosystems.</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Related Articles</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <a href="/coloradan/current-issue" hreflang="und">Fall 2017</a> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:54:01 +0000 Anonymous 7316 at /coloradan