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Public safety agencies, including the University of Colorado Police Department under the leadership of Chief Doreen Jokerst, are reassessing how to serve the communities they are sworn to serve and protect through greater transparency, accountability and trust.

The University Libraries are bringing back Pause for Paws events through April 23. Join Pawffice Hours, take a dog personality quiz and more!

Through the spring semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: Boulder County level change; pointers for students who receive their first vaccine dose on campus and leave campus before their second dose; and more.

CU Boulder’s Center for Leadership has launched a new podcast highlighting the multitude of different ways leadership education, leadership development and leadership culture manifest themselves through the work of the center.

This weekend brings trivia night, sound bath yoga and meditation, DIY hand sanitizer, a session on redefining beauty, the CU Choirs spring concert and more.

More than 70% of neurological diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and the concussion-related disorder CTE, are believed to be fueled by protein clusters called tau aggregates. A new study sheds light on how they damage brain cells, and could ultimately lead to new therapies for such "tauopathies."

CU Boulder is hosting Campus Master Plan virtual open house presentations to give the campus community an opportunity to provide feedback on the efforts of the project team to date, with an aim of finalizing the plan later this year.

CU Boulder faculty and participating university presses can apply to receive funding from the libraries to fund an open access monograph publication through the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem initiative.

Katherine Stange and Jonathan Wise are among 40 mathematicians nationwide to win this fellowship, which aims to allow scholars to focus on research for the "long periods often necessary for significant advances in their disciplines."

Amid COVID-19, Sona Dimidjian and her CU colleagues say there are simple, research-based strategies that can offer relief and help improve mental health.