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Flying Before Walking: The CU Trailblazers

Oct. 27, 2022

The CU Trailblazers are Native students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science who, over the course of nine months, built and launched an eight-foot high-powered rocket for the First Nations Launch competition. They bonded over the project and the intertribal community they fostered as they became rocketry experts.

CU Engineering faculty and staff at the ASEE annual conference 2022

CU Engineering researchers win Best Paper at the ASEE Annual Conference 2022

Oct. 27, 2022

Komarek and co-authors, Bielefeldt and Knight won Best Paper LEAD Division and the Best Overall Professional Interest Council (PIC) paper award across a group of divisions at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition 2022 last summer.

Orit Peleg in a beekeeping suit, holding a section of beehive

How many bees can you fit in an X-ray machine? That's not a joke

Oct. 27, 2022

Researchers at CU Boulder have, for the first time, used X-ray computed tomography (also known as a CT scan) to peer inside swarms of honeybees.

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CU Boulder lands $750k research grant for 5G communications security

Oct. 24, 2022

Keith Gremban, aerospace research professor at CU Boulder Keith Gremban is leading a unique military-oriented research project to enable secure use of 5G networks that may be controlled by an adversary. Gremban, an aerospace research professor at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, has secured a $749,000 phase one grant from...

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ChemBio's Wyatt Shields wins 2022 Packard Fellowship for microscale robotics

Oct. 19, 2022

In a banner year that has included receiving five distinguished research awards, Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields has been awarded one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious awards for young investigators: a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Dan Larremore

Dan Larremore member of Popular Science's Brilliant 10

Oct. 19, 2022

Larremore has been recognized by Popular Science as an early-career scientist and engineer bringing computation and math together to help real-world problems, from infectious diseases to social inequities.

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Catalyze CU’s 2022 cohort wraps with Investor Day, life-changing impact for participants

Oct. 18, 2022

Four Catalyze CU startups pitched their ventures to local investors in the culmination of the 12-week accelerator program.

Hypersonic vehicle

CU Boulder lasers go supersonic

Oct. 13, 2022

Researchers at CU Boulder are using lasers to precisely quantify the performance of high-speed engines. Those measurements – recently described in detail in Optica – are key to propelling superfast hypersonic vehicles and providing better engine performance overall.

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Research & Innovation Week returns to campus Oct. 17–21

Oct. 11, 2022

Events showcase research, scholarship and creative work from across the campus and demonstrate the broad impact of the research and innovation enterprise at CU Boulder.

Scott Diddams, left, and Greg Rieker in the lab

QEI Collaboration Lab opening to foster high-impact research in quantum engineering

Oct. 10, 2022

Researchers from CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be better able to coordinate their efforts with the opening of the Quantum Engineering Initiative (QEI) Collaboration Lab on Sept. 26.

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