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REAL ESTATE SERVICES CU BOULDER Newsletter: March 1, 2021 View Newsletter on Website REAL ESTATE SERVICES UPDATES: Following university guidance, our offices will continue to work from home. Our contact info and other helpful info can be found on our website here. The RES office follows campus hours of 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday thru Friday and we are available at 303-492-6883. Contact Updates: Do you have a new employee you would like to add to RES building and related tenant updates? Please email [email protected] with your contact updates. CAMPUS HOLIDAYS: Reminder: Spring Break 2021 for Students is replaced with a later start date for the semester (Jan. 14) and two wellness days on Feb. 17 and March 25. While there will be no courses, the university will be open on the two wellness days. Friday March 26th typically is a staff holiday; however, our office will be open. If you need us please call 303-492-6883. If you should have a building emergency on the weekend or on a day we are closed please call the OCC directly at 303-492-5522. GO BUFFS! Spring Sports in Action CAMPUS NEWS: There are some GREAT games you can watch, review stats, and much more. Playoffs are coming soon. Men’s Basketball Conference on World Affairs. CU Connections has put together some Answers to Your Covid-19 Questions. You can read the article here. For the latest Covid-19 Updates, see the CU Boulder website https://www.colorado.edu/corona virus Available for 2021-2022 school year, we currently have several multi-bedroom single family homes available for full time CU Students in good standing. 1 block from campus. Sorry, no pets. We have two, 2-bedroom homes and one 3-bedroom and one 4-bedroom home. For more information on our Grandview rentals please visit our website or give us a call at 303-492-6883. IT’S A NEW DAY. With the inauguration of Kamala Harris as the first Female and Black and Asian American Woman to hold the position of Vice president in our 245 year old history, many of us felt joy and happiness that our country was finally choosing a woman, and especially someone from a diverse background. In her inauguration speech, Kamala said that he (Joe Biden) had the “boldness to select a woman. ” Biden’s picks for his new administration was filled with many firsts. His picks represent the most diverse cabinet with women and minorities, including his selection for Secretary of Interior, Deb Haland, who would be the First Native American to hold the position. However, Kamala Harris’ win could not have come without the many phenomenal and ground-breaking firsts that happened in our country’s past. For example, how many of us learned about Shirley Chisholm? She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. House of representatives in 1968, and was the first Black person and the first WOMAN to make a bid for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Here is a quote from Shirley Chisholm: “You women better wake up if you want to change America around. You do the work. You better wake up. And Don’t be afraid. Have confidence in yourself. And the ability you have is ability and talent given to you by God and don’t let anyone use you. You don’t let people continue to use you and manipulate you. The only thing you have is your integrity and your principles and convictions of what we’re fighting for in America…” (Shirley Chisholm, CBS Video, date unknown) To celebrate the many milestones and recent positive stories of AMAZING WOMEN in the news, at CU Boulder, and around the country, below are some stories collected over the past couple months. Happy reading! Amazing Women at CU Former CU Boulder postdoc Jennifer Doudna smashes glass ceiling with historic Nobel win Who could forget this impressive article in CU Boulder Today about Jennifer Doudna with her historic Nobel win! “Doudna, a professor of biochemistry at University of California Berkeley, shares the award with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, marking the first time in history that a science Nobel has been won by two women together.” (emphasis added) “The Nobel Foundation honored Doudna and Charpentier for their discovery, a decade in the making, that a gene-cutting molecule known as Cas9, which is used naturally by bacteria to kill viruses, can be re- engineered as a precise gene-editing tool.” Read the full article. As reported in CU Boulder Today: The Center for Inclusion and Social Change (CISC), within the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement (ODECE) is thrilled to recognize its 2020 Womxn Who Make a Difference. To see CISC’s and ODECE’s list of 2020 Womxn who make a difference, and to learn more click here. Five University of Colorado Boulder students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships! The College of Engineering & Applied Science announced, “The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration. Students Grace Antonucci, Giselle Koo, Erica McNamee, Maria Callas, and Jasmin Chadha, with majors from across the College of Engineering and Applied Science, have been named 2021 winners.” Real the full article here. CU Boulder has the most 2021 honorees of any university. “The program honors the memory of Brooke Owens, a space industry pioneer and accomplished pilot. Owens’ career took her to NASA, the X-Prize Foundation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the White House. Her enthusiasm and passion for aerospace led friends and colleagues to create a foundation to inspire and train exceptional undergraduate women with the same zeal for space exploration.” SPEAKING OF SPACE As part of Black History Month Celebrations, CU’s Bold Center and the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences hosted a special presentation with by NASA legend, Dr. Christine Darden, named “The Four P’s to NASA” I had the pleasure of attending the virtual presentation and she spoke about her experiences in her career as a “human computer” for NASA, and as an engineer and about how she guided herself through her career using the “Four P’s” that she created to motivate herself to overcome her shortcomings (she went to a segregated high school which offered limited math classes; and in college, many other students had already taken more advanced classes). She fell in love with plane geometry when she transferred to a boarding school, and she found she had a passion for math. She mentioned that if you have a passion for what you are doing, you are going to work harder. Here are Dr. Darden’s Four P’s to NASA: The Four P’s to NASA: Perceive of yourself in that career (she saw herself working at NASA) Plan what you need to get there Preparing. Work your plan. Persist. Keep going. Don’t stop. “During her 40-year career at NASA she worked as deputy program manager of the TU-144 Experiments Program, an element of NASA’s High-Speed Research Program. In 1999, she was appointed as the director in the Program Management Office of the Aerospace Performing Center where she was responsible for Langley research in air traffic management and other aeronautics programs managed at other NASA Centers. Darden also served as technical consultant on numerous government and private projects, and is the author of more than 50 publications in the field of high lift wing design in supersonic flow, flap design, sonic boom prediction, and sonic boom minimization.” What an inspiring and amazing woman! I was glued to my home work station!!! Emily Harrington Climbs El Capitan. If you didn’t hear about the fabulous feat of CU Alum and professional athlete Emily Harrington, she made national headlines with the fastest time ever, taking the Golden Gate route in under 24 hours! Marlins hire Kim Ng as first female general manager in MLB history Ng, is also the first Asian-American GM in baseball, previously she has been an assistant GM with the Yankees and Dodgers. "On behalf of Principal Owner Bruce Sherman and our entire ownership group, we look forward to Kim bringing a wealth of knowledge and championship-level experience to the Miami Marlins," Marlins CEO Derek Jeter said in a statement reported the ESPN article. Read the full story here. And who could forget Sarah Thomas, the first female Referee at this year’s Superbowl (for the first time in 55 year history!) Sarah is also the first permanent female NFL referee since 2015. What’s truly amazing is that, these are only the ones we hear about. We all probably know at least one person who has took challenges head-on, made exceptional strides in adversity, and still managed to be kind and generous to others. These are the people who inspire us to also be bold! If you want to share, email me [email protected]. Name: Kimmi Pepitone Position: RES Junior Real Estate Officer How long have you worked at CU Boulder? What do you love most about working here? I have been working at CU for two and a half years. I love supporting the incredible research that occurs on this campus. There have been some phenomenal women mentioned in this newsletter; are there any strong women in your life you appreciate or is there another woman who inspires you? My oldest and closest friend is following her dream of revolutionizing the agriculture industry—she is passionate about regenerative, sustainable farming and the positive effects it can have on our planet.