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Anthony Straub is making major advances in water purification technology for industry and human consumption on Earth and in space, with his work on a nanotechnology membrane process taking a major step toward commercialization...

Drone technology and atmospheric science instruments developed by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ will be available to researchers nationwide through a new grant. The National Science Foundation has awarded CU Boulder a three-year, $1 million grant to establish a Community Instruments and Facilities program titled Mobile Uncrewed Systems for Atmospheric...

Zach Sunberg’s research developing better artificial intelligence systems is getting a major boost from two federal grant awards. Sunberg is receiving a $599,000, five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and is a partner on a related $4 million multi-university initiative from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Both...

Abhi Doddi (PhDAeroEngr’21) is collecting scientific data outdoors in a 70 mph whiteout blizzard. It is just another day of life in Antarctica. Doddi, a postdoctoral researcher in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, is leading a major study involving...

CU Engineering launches interdisciplinary robotics program, graduate degrees Engineering graduate students have a new degree option at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ: robotics. The CU Board of Regents has established a master’s and PhD program in robotics. It will provide students an education merging hardware and software engineering, mathematics and...

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...

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,...

A team led by environmental engineer Evan Thomas has received a $650,000 Convergence Accelerator grant from the National Science Foundation, to measure and mitigate pollution in the Cache la Poudre and Yampa Rivers in Colorado through new sensor technology, monitoring, and a voluntary carbon credits trading system with industry.

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...

Robyn Macdonald Robyn Macdonald is pushing the limits of hypersonic research with a new NASA grant. Macdonald, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, has been awarded a $600,000 Early Career award from NASA to improve computational...