A balloon launching with payloads on a line.

Launching science to near space in a pandemic

Nov. 3, 2020

College students across Colorado are building science experiments that will travel into the stratosphere – and they are doing all the work at home. It is all part of a Colorado Space Grant Consortium extracurricular initiative for...

Linden in the lab with a student

Linden to receive prestigious 2020 Clarke Prize

Oct. 30, 2020

The National Water Research Institute (NWRI) and the Joan Irvine Smith and Athalie R. Clarke Foundation presented the 2020 Clarke Prize to Professor Karl Linden. NWRI administers the prestigious $50,000 prize.

Teagan Browne

Sophomore lands full-ride SMART Scholarship and post-graduation job

Oct. 30, 2020

It was mid-March and stress was high at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Due to the COVID pandemic, courses had transitioned online and students were moving out of the campus dorms. As one of her newly Zoom-based classes let out, Teagan Browne’s phone rang. It was a Florida number. She...

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NSF grants aim to improve security and safety of autonomous cars and systems

Oct. 30, 2020

Researchers at CU Boulder are leading four new NSF-funded projects that are exploring the safety and security of autonomous systems, including those used in self-driving vehicles.

Ali Anderson with Earth viewed from space behind her

Video: Anderson on microgravity and the humanity of space

Oct. 28, 2020

Allie Anderson (Assistant Professor, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences), shares her experiences with microgravity while conducting experiments on a parabolic flight.

Karen Croft

Investor Karen Crofton joins college entrepreneurship team

Oct. 23, 2020

The College of Engineering and Applied Science welcomes the newest member of its engineering entrepreneurship team, Entrepreneur-in-Residence Karen Crofton. Crofton brings a wealth of experience as an investor in data and financial technology startups, a former principal at the Rocky Mountain Institute dedicated to the transformation of energy systems, an...

Graduate student at microscope in robotics lab

CU Engineering goes 'GRE-free' for fall 2020 application cycle

Oct. 22, 2020

Applicants to all CU Boulder engineering graduate programs will not be required to submit GRE scores this fall, an acknowledgement of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

PufferBot extends its shield as it approaches a bystander.

Pufferfish-inspired robot could improve drone safety

Oct. 22, 2020

PufferBot is the brainchild of graduate student Hooman Hedayati and his colleagues at the ATLAS Institute at CU Boulder.

A lightening storm

New paper on lightning distance estimation published in IEEE

Oct. 21, 2020

André Antunes de Sá, a PhD candidate in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, is co-author of a new paper published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

lab on a chip

New technology diagnoses sickle cell disease in record time

Oct. 15, 2020

Diseases of the blood, like sickle cell disease, have traditionally taken a full day, tedious lab work and expensive equipment to diagnose, but researchers across disciplines have developed a way to diagnose these conditions with greater precision in only one minute.

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