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Startup success

Nov. 1, 2019

College goes all-in on entrepreneurship An entrepreneur’s journey might never be painless. But CU Engineering is going all in to ensure that its graduates are ready to tackle the challenges of launching and scaling a startup. Since naming entrepreneurship a priority in its Strategic Vision and hiring its first entrepreneurship...

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Breaking the cold chain and making the shot count: Garcea and Randolph awarded Gates Foundation grant for vaccine research

Nov. 1, 2019

New research from Professor Robert Garcea of the BioFrontiers Institute and Gillespie Professor Theodore Randolph of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is showing encouraging results in stabilizing vaccines and circumventing the refrigeration requirement, earning an additional $1.2 million in grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Wage warrior

Nov. 1, 2019

An entrepreneur, to me, is a person who sees an unmet need. When you know that you have to solve this problem, you become an entrepreneur in that moment. Alumnus tackles financial inequality through mobile technology For the roughly 100 million Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, the financial services industry can be...

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Engineering startups in the news

Nov. 1, 2019

A desalination facility in Dubai along the Persian Gulf coastline

Salt solution: Researcher sets out to make desalination more efficient

Oct. 31, 2019

Â鶹ÊÓƵ postdoctoral researcher Omkar Supekar of mechanical engineering is working on a technique that could make desalination facilities more efficient by changing the way they detect chemicals that clog up their filters.

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Improving drought resilience in East Africa with sensors, satellites and machine learning

Oct. 30, 2019

A team of researchers led by Professor Evan Thomas, director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, has been awarded a three-year, $660,000 grant by NASA to join the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, a joint venture between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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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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Liftoff

Oct. 28, 2019

Aerospace has a new home at CU Boulder. The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has moved into its new dedicated building on East Campus. Eighteen months after construction began, the four-story, 175,000-square-foot structure was completed over the summer. Classes and research are underway inside. “This new...

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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...

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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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