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Alumni Volunteer Spotlight: Jennifer Uchida, MAeroEngr’05

Jan. 26, 2021

Jen Uchida graduated from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 2005 with a joint bachelor’s and master’s degree in aerospace engineering. Since graduation, she has become a leader in the test flight engineering field. Jen is now the manager of test and evaluation at AeroTEC where she oversees and directs...

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Transcending a divided past into a more inclusive future

Jan. 22, 2021

The year of 2020 presented a broad array of challenges that confronted us head-on, from a plethora of social injustices in the country and in Colorado to the unacceptable inequities magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. As we transition into this new semester, we will continue our efforts to build a more inclusive culture, guided by our strategic mission and vision.

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Perseverance, natural curiosity propelled John Mollenkopf (MechEngr‘83) to engineering success

Jan. 21, 2021

Growing up, John Mollenkopf spent most of his free time tinkering. He’d gather up tools, then get to work converting his bicycle into a chopper in the driveway or the garage. As he got older, he graduated to building things from scratch, including go-karts, a hang glider, model airplanes and model cars.

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Using augmented reality drum circles to fix latency and improve collaborations

Jan. 20, 2021

Long before the pandemic sent people scrambling into isolation, musicians have longed to jam virtually with others across the globe. Now researchers from CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute’s ACME Lab and Ericsson Research are developing ways for musicians to play together remotely through the AR Drum Circle project.

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Blacklock returns to CU as director of Western partnership program

Jan. 20, 2021

Former Mechanical Engineering faculty member Jenifer Blacklock has returned to the College of Engineering and Applied Science as the director of the Rady Program at Western Colorado University. She will lead the Western-CU Boulder Partnership Program.

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Researchers fight COVID-19 with new air filtration in Denver Public Schools

Jan. 11, 2021

Since the summer, Professor Mark Hernandez of civil, environmental and architectural engineering and his team have been working in the district’s classrooms to install a new generation of high-efficiency air filters.

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Register now for material characterization facility virtual open house

Jan. 8, 2021

The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) core research facility will have a virtual open house on Jan. 29 via Zoom.

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A Message to Our Community: U.S. Capitol Violence

Jan. 8, 2021

We must recognize that the individuals involved in yesterday’s incident are a part of America, while also demonstrating that behaviors, values, and beliefs of white supremacy, patriarchy, and overall oppression will not be accepted nor tolerated.

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Seeds of change: ATLAS students present paper on poverty cycles in rural India

Jan. 8, 2021

When three first-year ATLAS master's students in the Social Impact track of the Creative Technology and Design master’s program learned of the staggering suicide rate of male farmers in rural India and the suffering that ensues for their surviving family members, they wanted to explore effective interventions.

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Nicole Labbe will explore high-altitude ignition

Jan. 8, 2021

Labbe's research focuses on chemical kinetics, renewable fuels, combustion modeling, reactive flows. Her project is titled “Kinetic Behavior of Post-Flameout Ignition Events.â€

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