A stylus hovers over a screen featuring a physics diagram

Textbooks come alive with new, interactive AI tool

Nov. 1, 2024

ATLAS assistant professor, Ryo Suzuki, makes textbooks more interactive with AI-powered tools that turn diagrams into effective simulations for more personalized and immersive learning.

whaaat festival logo on an old school television set

Whaaat!? Festival is a treasure box of experimental games

Oct. 29, 2024

Our Q&A with festival organizers explores the inspiration behind the event as they power up to welcome gamers to ATLAS for a day devoted to all things games.

Close-up of exhibit blocks with digital projections and a hand moving a block

Students collaborate on NSF NCAR exhibit that highlights surprising climate science

Oct. 7, 2024

An interdisciplinary team transforms complex research into an interactive museum exhibit on how ice sheets influenced weather millennia ago.

Mike Rivera talks to several guests in the Utility Research Lab

Brewing Sustainability: Michael Rivera powers up 3D printing with coffee grounds

Sept. 26, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University alumni profile details how our Utility Research Lab director employs sustainable materials in place of plastics in 3D printing and textile development.

Carson Bruns in a white lab coat working with tattoo equipment in his lab

Bruns receives Provost's Faculty Achievement Award

Sept. 20, 2024

ATLAS assistant professor, Carson Bruns, was among a group of five CU Boulder pre-tenure faculty recognized for excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service. He was selected for his research on smart tattoos.

A large metal sculpture of a "greater than / less than" sign hangs in a modern art gallery

Denver artist Joel Swanson questions everything

Sept. 16, 2024

ATLAS associate professor's new gallery show, "Orderings," challenges basic assumptions of everyday order through sculpture, mixed media, video and more.

Christopher Gaines holds clay-colored square with a tactile representation of a sun petroglyph

Touching the Sun with Solar Stones

Aug. 27, 2024

ATLAS undergraduate students partnered with NASA's PUNCH mission and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind to make tactile representations of ancient petroglyphs.

Laura Devendorf stands smiling in the Unstable Design Lab while holding a colorful woven form and showing it to guests

Devendorf bridges engineering and craft communities with new initiative

Aug. 13, 2024

The Unstable Design Lab director has embarked on the first phase of a years-long project to bring together engineering and craft communities to advance textile research across a range of scientific disciplines.

Ruhan Yang sits behind a table showing off paper circuits research at the conference

Colorado-based Computer Graphics Professionals Make Their Mark at SIGGRAPH 2024

Aug. 2, 2024

ATLAS community members, including professor Ellen Do and PhD student Ruhan Yang, presented at this year's conference in Denver.

Ruhan stands in the ACME Lab holding examples of her paper robots

ATLAS PhD student deploys papercraft to make engineering tangible and fun

July 30, 2024

ATLAS PhD student Ruhan Yang blends papercraft and circuit design to make engineering more tangible, accessible and fun for tinkerers of all ages.

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