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Tracking Earth ice sheet melt from space

May 23, 2024

CU Boulder professor secures $800,000 NASA Grant Khosro Ghobadi-Far is advancing the science of climate change with orbiting satellites. Ghobadi-Far has earned an $800,000 grant from NASA to analyze data from the GRACE-FO satellites, which measure variations in Earth’s gravitational field. Although gravity may appear constant to humans, it actually fluctuates across Earth’s surface in ways that can be valuable to climate science.

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Osamah Dehwah: BOLD service from tutor to PhD graduate

May 23, 2024

Osamah Dehwah has called the BOLD Center home for the past five years as a tutor and helped hundreds of aspiring engineers. He graduated with his PhD in civil engineering and reflected on his experience with the BOLD Center.

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Tribal Climate Leaders Program supports students in bringing science home

May 22, 2024

The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center piloted TCLP as a partnership between several entities: CIRES, the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies.

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Mechanical engineering juniors build drill-powered vehicles

May 21, 2024

Students partnered with the Idea Forge to design, build and test drill-powered vehicles as part of the capstone project in a component design class. The project culminated in a day of friendly competition to test their vehicles in a drag race, a maneuverability course, uphill challenges and an endurance race.

Members of CU Boulder's Concrete Canoe Team stand under the spikes they made for their concrete canoe character, a stegosaurus.

CU Boulder shines at ASCE Symposium, advances to nationals

May 20, 2024

For the first time ever, CU Boulder's American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter is heading to the ASCE Civil Engineering Student Championships.

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22 CU Boulder engineering students earn major National Science Foundation fellowships

May 16, 2024

The National Science Foundation has bestowed 22 prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards to Â鶹ÊÓƵ engineering students. The national awards recognize and support outstanding grad students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees. Awardees...

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CU Boulder students launch hybrid rocket

May 16, 2024

Blastoff! The rocket soared over the prairie, its unique engine screaming in unison with cheers from more than two dozen students. The months of work, late nights, calculations, and validations had all been worth it. Three Â鶹ÊÓƵ aerospace senior design teams had come together and successfully designed,...

Wyatt Shields presents at the 2023 Packard Fellows Retreat.

Wyatt Shields selected as Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

May 14, 2024

Wyatt Shields has been honored with a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award for his contributions to teaching and research on medical microrobots, self-propelled miniature robots that one day might deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body.

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Unstoppable: Gabrielle Dunn honored as overall Outstanding Undergraduate of the College

May 9, 2024

Dunn was a peer mentor with the BOLD Center in spring 2021 and was honored as Outstanding Undergraduate of the College.

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Meet our Graduating Student Award winners

May 9, 2024

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