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Students: Plant the seeds of career success this spring with ProReady

Jan. 13, 2022

There are so many ways to engage in ProReady activities in the spring and summer semesters. We encourage all students – from first-year to graduate school – to take advantage of these opportunities to prepare for career success!

Rajagopalan Balaji

Research in Focus: Climate Variability Past & Present with Rajagopalan Balaji

Jan. 11, 2022

Rajagopalan Balaji is a Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and he is changing the way we see climate change.

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Thayer named to science team for six-satellite NASA orbital mission

Jan. 10, 2022

Professor Jeff Thayer is part of a major new NASA science mission to better understand our sun’s influence on generating space weather. Thayer is one of three interdisciplinary scientists chosen by NASA for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission to build and launch six satellites to provide the first direct...

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Navigating the impacts of the Marshall Fire and COVID-19 together

Jan. 7, 2022

As we begin the semester on Monday in a temporary remote status, I invite you to be flexible and practice compassion for our entire community.

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Video: How Tamara Silbergleit Lehman balances security and performance

Jan. 7, 2022

In her computer engineering lab, Assistant Professor Tamara Silbergleit Lehman and her team are exploring ways to make computing devices more secure, while also maintaining performance.

Anthony Pimentel

Anthony Pimentel: Engineering solutions with everyone in mind

Jan. 7, 2022

Anthony Pimentel (EVEN'21) was awarded one of three Research graduate awards His efforts have focused on new water treatment options and sustainable technologies to reduce the environmental impact of water infrastructure. His path to research excellence at CU started with the college's Â鶹ÊÓƵy Learning Apprenticeship (DLA) program, which placed him...

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Testing only the unvaccinated may do little to curb spread of omicron

Jan. 6, 2022

New Â鶹ÊÓƵ research suggests while unvaccinated-only testing policies make sense when the unvaccinated population is large, they have little impact on transmission when there are few remaining unvaccinated people to test.

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Video: Emergent behavior in fire ants

Jan. 6, 2022

Studying emergent behavior has long fascinated engineers, and researchers at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ just uncovered a distinct behavior in colonies of fire ants cooperating in flood situations.

Contracting heart cells exert forces on their genetic material

Mechanical forces in a beating heart affect its cells’ DNA, with implications for development and disease

Dec. 21, 2021

Professor Corey Neu explains how his team found that mechanical forces can reorganize the genetic material inside the nucleus of heart cells and affect how they develop and function.

Will Brown and Connie Faye Brown

Alumnus Will Brown donates engineering scholarship in honor of his mother

Dec. 21, 2021

Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering alumnus Will Brown (MechEngr’92) has established the Connie Faye Brown scholarship to benefit mechanical, chemical or electrical engineering students.

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