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In a statewide effort to reduce barriers to higher education, all 32 public universities in Colorado—including ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder—and several private colleges will waive admissions application fees for state residents on Oct. 13.

Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder’s newest endowed professorial chair—the Sapp Family Endowed Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence—is the first of its kind. This $2.5 million fund allows the chancellor to support top-tier faculty in social science, education, neuropsychology and psychology.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder research attracted $613.9 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for groundbreaking studies that, among other things, crack the code of the teenage brain, advance electric transportation and aim to understand how odors guide behavior.

Congressman Joe Neguse has announced Elena Aranda as the winner of the 2020 Polly Baca Raices Fuertes Community Leader Award. Aranda is a professional research assistant at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ's Renée Crown Wellness Institute.

The Office for Outreach and Engagement has recently redesigned the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder Community Outreach and Engagement Programs website, which showcases nearly 200 outreach and engagement programs from every college and school.

Are you planning on graduating this semester? If so, there are two upcoming deadlines to mark on your calendars.

The Regional Transportation District is proposing to permanently discontinue or reduce service on some bus and light rail routes, effective Jan. 10. ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder RTD riders may provide input on the proposed changes by Oct. 14.

Good news, Buffs: You can still access the libraries’ physical collections. The University Libraries are continuing to offer contactless pickup services on books and other library materials.

Larry Levine, who has led the information technology needs of the campus for more than a decade, is retiring at the end of next June, and the university will soon conduct an internal search for his successor.