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COVID-19 CU-BOULDER – OFF CAMPUS PARTIES – SUPERSPREADERS Sep 15, 2020

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In this final show in our four-part series on CU Boulder & COVID, we look at how CU Boulder Contact Tracing and CU data collection has revealed that the biggest spreader of COVID-19 on CU Boulder’s campus is students “socializing” in risky ways, particularly in off-campus parties at sororities, fraternities and large student apartment buildings on “The Hill” near CU Boulder. In contrast, attending in-person classes on CU is not a spreader of COVID-19, and neither are the residential halls. This show features news from the CU Chancellor’s office about a stronger call to reduce the spread, the leader of CU Contact Tracing Matthew McQueen, and Boulder County Spokesperson Chana Goussetis, explaining Boulder County Covid Data.

Producer: Shelley Schlender
Additional Contributions: Angele Sjong
Engineer: Maeve Conran

**Testing wastewater for COVID-19** Sep 08, 2020
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Cresten Mansfeldt

PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES IN COVID-19 TESTS (starts 1:00) Beth Bennett reviews the years progress and challenges in COVID-19 Tests, including the latest tests at CU Boulder.

**CU UPDATE ON COVID-19** (starts 4:15) CU Media Relations spokesperson Candace Smith gives an update on the CU COVID-READY DASHBOARD including progress on getting the Sawyer Lab ultrafast test back in action at CU-Boulder.

WASTEWATER TESTING AT CU DORMS (Starts 9:50) CU Environmental Engineer Cresten Mansfeldt explains how and why CU Boulder is testing for evidence of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 with daily checks of wastewater coming from CU dorms.

**Producer:** Shelley Schlender
**Additional Contributions:** Beth Bennett
**Engineer**: Maeve Conran

Graduate student Teyha Stockman, right, shows off her homemade bell cover made from medical mask material that helps decrease aerosol spread on her clarinet to mechanical engineering professor Shelly Miller in MillerÕs mechanical engineering laboratory on the CU Boulder campus. The two researchers have been studying how aerosols spread with vocal and instrument performance. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado) — **Keeping Indoors COVID-Safe – CU Aerosol Experts Shelly Miller & Jose Luis Jimenez** Sep 01, 2020
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Graduate student Teyha Stockman, right, shows off her homemade bell cover made from medical mask material that helps decrease aerosol spread on her clarinet to mechanical engineering professor Shelly Miller Photo courtesy CU.

**Ultrafast COVID Test Update** (starts 1:00) Sara Sawyer’s ultrafast COVID saliva test might be an option sometime soon for allowing visits inside senior care facilities.

**CU COVID-READY DASHBOARD** (starts3:35) CU Media Relations spokesperson Candace Smith gives an update, and How on Earth’s Beth Bennett shares comparisons with other university successes and failures at opening up.

**KEEPING INDOORS COVID-SAFE** (Starts 9:25) CU Aerosol Experts Shelly Miller & Jose Luis Jimenez have become world-renowned for their expertise in how to reduce the risk of aerosol transmission of COVID-19, plus how CU Boulder is working with them to increase the safety of in-person CU Classrooms from COVID-19 for more, see. CU Boulder Covid Research Strategies Webinar

**Producer:** Shelley Schlender
**Additional Contributions:** Angele Sjong, Beth Bennett
**Engineer**: Maeve Conran

sawyersara-boulder_0 — **CU Boulder – COVID Test Innovations** Aug 25, 2020
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CU Boulder has just opened up dorms and in-person classes. The CU Boulder Covid Research Strategies Webinar presents innovative testing plans that include ultra-fast COVID tests from the Sara Sawyer Lab and an automated sewage sampling system from Creston Mansfeldt. Both tests may speed early warning of Covid. Both testing strategies are innovative and ambitious. But funding and testing capacity mean only dormitory students receive these tests. Dorm students represent around 20% of CU Boulder students. Roughly 80% of CU students live off-campus (not in the dorms). They are not slated to receive these special tests, or basically, any regular tests.

Currently, CU-Boulder COVID infection rates are low. As questions on next week’s show, we will be watching for . . . how does all this influence the ability of CU-Boulder’s innovative tests to help CU keep Covid-19 cases down and to help the campus stay open?

**Hosts:** Beth Bennett, Angele Sjong, Shelley Schlender
**Producer:** Shelley Schlender
**Engineer**: Maeve Conran

Woo2017NPStuningcurve-copy — **The Neuroscience of Pain** Aug 11, 2020
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Chronic pain is a debilitating condition for millions of people worldwide. But what role does our brain play in processing pain? Cognitive neuroscientists are gaining a better understanding of how our brain processes pain. Using advanced imaging techniques, they can now measure and model brain systems linked to our pain and emotions. This is shedding new light on interventions for people who suffer from chronic pain. In this How on Earth episode, Jill Sjong speaks with Tor Wager, Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, and formerly Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder. Jill also speaks with Charlie Merrill, a Boulder-based physiotherapist and Clinical Advisor at Lin Health, a digital integrative pain clinic. Charlie Merrill works extensively with local athletes, many of whom suffer from chronic pain. **Host:** Jill Sjong **Executive Producer:** Susan Moran **Engineer:** Maeve Conran Listen to the show:

COVID-19: The Evidence for Aerosol Transmission & Implications for Containment Aug 05, 2020

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This week How on Earth producer Beth Bennett spoke with Professor Jose Jimenez, a professor in the Chemistry Dept here at CU in Boulder. His research background for over two decades has focused on detecting and measuring aerosols. Recently he became involved in applying this expertise to the question of how the corona virus is transmitted. He and his team have developed a model that predicts the likelihood of transmission of the virus from an infected person to other people in an indoor space. Here are find links to the model, a webinar describing its development and use and his website. The interview starts at ~8 min.

Executive Producer: Susan Moran
Show Producer: Beth Bennett
Additional Contributions: Joel Parker
Engineer: Maeve Conran

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