The Office of Community Relations at the University of Colorado at Boulder is asking Boulder area residents to submit lecture topic ideas to help develop future installments of the Chancellor聮s Community Lecture Series, aimed at bringing faculty expertise to general public audiences.
Because of the diversity of the campus聮s academic programs, topics can range anywhere from aerospace engineering to Shakespeare. Popular lecture topics in past years have included smart growth, life in the Caucasus Mountains and the people of ancient Nubia.
"We have so many choices available in designing this series of lectures that we want to make sure we聮re appealing to the broadest range of interests possible," said Jaisy Jardine, coordinator of the Chancellor聮s Community Lecture Series, which features monthly evening lectures by CU-Boulder faculty.
Area residents are invited to e-mail their lecture ideas to Jardine at Jaisy.Jardine@colorado.edu or leave a voice mail message at (303) 492-8384.
Topic suggestions that conform to the university聮s departmental offerings are most likely to be used, Jardine said. Lectures on agriculture-related topics, for example, would be difficult to arrange because CU-Boulder does not have an agriculture department.
"But we聮re interested to find out topics people are interested in, so all ideas are welcome," she said. "We聮ll do our best to arrange lectures on topics that seem to be of general interest and that match our faculty expertise."