/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="600" 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>˛ĘĂń±¦µä 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 “Gordie” Bailey Jr. died from alcohol poisoning in 2005. Fraternities formed their own off-campus councils but were denied university privileges.</p><p>“We 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,” 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;— activities that would be severely affected by a nuclear war."</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;— ˛ĘĂń±¦µä physicist Brian Toon on his latest study concerning nuclear war’s agricultural and oceanic impacts.&nbsp;</p><hr><h2>What Lives in Your Showerhead?</h2><p>It’s a fine time to clean your showerhead — you’ll find an entire microbial ecosystem living there.</p><p>But Noah Fierer wants a sample first.</p><p>The ˛ĘĂń±¦µä ecology and evolutionary biology professor and colleagues sent 1,500 kits to willing “citizen scientists” 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’ll 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