The team at a launch in November 2019.

CU Sounding Rocket Lab: On a Mission to Space

March 18, 2021

What does it feel like to work on a project for months and have its success or failure determined in an instant? To move through rigorous, painstaking design and analysis and know it comes down to a single opportunity for success? To spend innumerable late nights...

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Faculty recognized with 3 governor’s awards for high-impact research

Nov. 1, 2019

The award recognizes 13 people, four of them affiliated with various departments and group at CU Boulder: Greg Rieker, Caroline Alden, Sean Coburn, and Robert Wright. Their colleagues are from NIST and LongPath Technologies.

Three students working on creating content for the library

$3.2 million NSF grant will help expand TeachEngineering digital library

Nov. 1, 2019

The Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program recently won a $3.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to increase the impact of the TeachEngineering digital library. It is the largest award in the program’s 25-year history and will propel the K-12 engineering library’s growth well into the future.

Water samples collected from the communities and stored in a travel container.

Partnership puts valuable water quality information from Western Slope online

Oct. 30, 2019

Results from a new volunteer survey of private drinking water quality on the Western Slope through a partnership between CU Boulder, Delta County and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are available online now.

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Vets2STEM career expo connects veterans to national labs

Oct. 24, 2019

CU Boulder is co-hosting a unique opportunity for military veterans on Nov. 8. Vets2STEM is a career expo hosted at the Colorado School of Mines in partnership with Mines and Colorado State University. The event is open to all Colorado veteran students. Vets2STEM will introduce veterans to employment opportunities available...

Zoya Popovic with her students in Spain

Popovic’s time in Spain fosters new research collaborations

Oct. 24, 2019

Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic recently returned from Spain, having lived there as part of a Chair of Excellence Program with the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).

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Schools of molecular ‘fish’ could one day improve display screens

Oct. 23, 2019

Scientists at CU Boulder are using a type of material called liquid crystals to create incredibly small, swirling schools of “fish,” according to a study published recently in the journal Nature Communications.

Professor Mike McGehee

Research group advances perovskite solar technology

Oct. 21, 2019

In a new research paper published in Nature Energy earlier this month, Professor Michael McGehee and his research team demonstrate how to dramatically improve the stability of tin-containing perovskite material used in stacked solar cells, allowing for up to 30% power conversion efficiency.

Greg Whiting in the lab with a student

Creating the internet of living things

Oct. 18, 2019

Researchers in the Multifunctional Materials Interdisciplinary Research Theme are trying to create the internet of living things.

A student showing work at the ATLAS Research Showcase

ATLAS Institute Research Showcase set for Friday

Oct. 16, 2019

Research and creative work exposition, laboratory and studio tours, demos, poster presentations, and discussion with faculty members and graduate students.

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