FRCC's president and CU Boulder's provost pose for a group photo with students in the CASE Chancellor's Hall

Colorado community college students now have more options to earn a CU Boulder engineering degree

Feb. 29, 2024

CU Boulder will soon offer six transfer pathways, allowing Colorado's community college students to earn a degree aligned with their academic and career interests.

Graduate student Taylor Lonner dons a virtual reality headset inside the Tilt-Translation Sled

With space travel comes motion sickness. These engineers want to help

Feb. 29, 2024

In amusement park-like experiments on campus, aerospace engineers at CU Boulder are spinning, shaking and rocking people to study the disorientation and nausea that come from traveling from Earth to space and back again.

Anushree Chatterjee

Leading Edge

Feb. 28, 2024

With more than $630 million in new research funding last year, our faculty are on the forefront of technological advancements with the potential to solve some of today’s most pressing challenges. Here’s a brief look at just a few of their projects. Health monitoring in an ‘earable’ package Tam Vu...

Project Torus

Project TORUS

Feb. 28, 2024

Drones get inside look at supercell storms ​ Professor Eric Frew talks drone-based storm research and the movie Twister . Podcast Researchers from CU Boulder flew drones into severe storms this spring for project TORUS, one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever, with students...

CU Boulder campus with mountains in background

SPIE commits $100,000 in matching funds to grow Quantum Scholars Program

Feb. 22, 2024

Generous commitment from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, supports future growth for CU Boulder's Quantum Scholars Program.

Women in Engineering  Panel & Networking Event March 7

Celebrate Women's History Month with CU Engineering

Feb. 19, 2024

March 7: Women in Engineering Panel & Networking Event – Join alumni, students, faculty, and prospective students as we come together to discuss ways to support each other, make meaningful connections, and hear from a panel of outstanding CU Engineering alumnae leaders.

Alex Meyer

Asteroid named for CU Boulder aerospace grad student

Feb. 15, 2024

PhD student played key role on NASA’s DART Mission Alex Meyer is an astrodynamics expert, engineer, PhD student, and now, a part of the night sky. The International Astronomical Union has officially named an asteroid after him. Asteroid 2000 ND17 is now (33974) Alexmeyer. “It’s pretty cool and quite an...

Joseph Kaspryzk and Edith Zagona of the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES), pose in front of colorful graphics depictingtheir research.

Inside the race to grasp the fate of the Colorado River

Feb. 14, 2024

Professors Edith Zagona and Joseph Kasprzyk were interviewed by the Washington Post for an article which explores how the federal government is utilizing innovative, web-based tools developed by academics at CU Boulder to forecast the river’s future flows.

Side-by-side view of two kinds of yellow foam, one with a traditional design and the other with the team's new "honeycomb" design

New kinds of padding could make football gear, bike helmets safer than ever

Feb. 5, 2024

In recent research, engineers at the University of Colorado of Boulder and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new design for padding that can withstand big impacts. The team’s innovations, which can be printed on commercially available 3D printers, could one day wind up in everything from shipping crates to football pads—anything that helps to protect fragile objects, or bodies, from the bumps of life.

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CU Boulder part of $160M NSF-funded effort to promote climate resilience

Feb. 1, 2024

The National Science Foundation today announced the Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine (CO-WY Engine) as a recipient of its inaugural Regional Innovation Engines program.

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