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Outstanding Undergraduate Awards

May 15, 2020

Every semester, we recognize students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science who have excelled in academics and extracurricular activities during their undergradate careers. The overall outstanding graduates and the outstanding grads for research, service and international engagement are nominated by faculty and staff, while outstanding graduates for academic achievement are honored based on their GPAs.

Graduate student Colleen McCollum spreads the word about antimicrobial resistance mediation on campus at CU Boulder.

On CUE Podcast: The Anti-Microbial Resistance Mediation Outreach Program (ARMOR)

May 13, 2020

The Anti-Microbial Resistance Mediation Outreach Program, also known as ARMOR, is a graduate student led international effort to develop public awareness of and research into the threat of widespread anti-microbial resistance (AMR). On today's episode of On CUE, we sit down with the team and discuss the global threat AMR poses, the origins of the ARMOR program and steps the team has taken to shed a light on an unseen issue.

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Boyd part of system wide National Security Advisory Group

May 11, 2020

President Mark Kennedy has convened faculty experts from all four campuses – including Professor Iain Boyd – for a new National Security Advisory Group.

Professor Iain Boyd

Research will create important data in field of hypersonics

May 11, 2020

Professor Iain Boyd is hoping new materials research funding from the U.S. Navy will lead to better understanding and management of heat transfer in hypersonic vehicles through the use of ultra-high-temperature ceramics.

Zayna Pieper

Outstanding Undergraduate winner ‘a force to be reckoned with’

May 8, 2020

The definition of hard work and effort. A team player. Gave 100% to every moment of the class. That’s how Zayna Pieper’s classmates in her sophomore engineering projects class described her. And she maintained that reputation for the remainder of her undergraduate career, earning her an Outstanding Undergraduate Award from...

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Where technology meets mindfulness

May 8, 2020

TAM graduate Jolie Klefeker's research explores fibercraft and sound. Jolie Klefeker wonders if technology could help us slow down. “How could we use technology … to think more critically, have more fun, to feel a little happier or more mindful through our day?” she asks. It might seem strange that,...

Regan Gage

Engineering a Medical Career

May 8, 2020

Architectural engineering alumna finds her light as an OB-GYN Ragan Gage, right, at East Cascade Women's Group in Bend, Ore. I was really good at cardiology, and you could say, in a way, it's similar to electrical systems for buildings but it's involving a body. Regan Gage thought she would...

Considine in the mountains

‘An exceptional scholar among exceptional scholars’

May 7, 2020

Applied math major Ellen Considine recognized with college's Outstanding Undergraduate Award.

chembio lab

Academia Meets Activism

May 7, 2020

Student group tackles antimicrobial resistance Antimicrobial resistance—the ability of bacteria, viruses and fungi to adapt to common remedies, leading to increasingly difficult-to-treat superbugs—represents a looming threat to global health. In labs at CU Boulder and around the world, researchers are exploring strategies for revamping antibiotics to work in the face...

Marina Nieto Caballero and Eddie Fuques Villalba prepare to assess the infection potential of murine coronavirus in CU Boulder lab

Environmental engineering researchers study airborne coronavirus disinfection

May 7, 2020

An environmental engineering research team led by Professor Mark Hernandez has been chosen to study the fate of airborne coronavirus indoors.

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