Student team finalists in NASA's CubeQuest Challenge

Aerospace student team aims for deep space

Nov. 3, 2016

A CU Boulder student team has been named a finalist in NASA鈥檚 CubeQuest Challenge small satellite design and launch competition. The team received the news in a conference call with NASA, according to Alec Forsman, an aerospace graduate student and the team鈥檚 project manager. 鈥淚 was nervous. We had a...

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Annual research report highlights Grand Challenge and other inspiring work

Oct. 21, 2016

The Research & Innovation Office, previously the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, creates impact by cultivating and supporting collaboration, transformation and leadership across CU Boulder. The recently released annual research report includes an array of research highlights from fiscal 2015-16. Among the highlights is CU Boulder's Grand Challenge:...

International Space Station

BioServe Space Technologies: CU Boulder's presence on the International Space Station

Sept. 28, 2016

International Space Station If you gaze at the night sky from Earth in just the right place, you will see the International Space Station (ISS), a bright speck of light hurtling through space at 5 miles per second as it orbits 220 miles above the planet. And if you were...

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New partnership with DigitalGlobe advances research innovation locally, worldwide

Sept. 19, 2016

CU Boulder and DigitalGlobe Inc. this week announced a partnership to provide access to DigitalGlobe鈥檚 industry-leading high-resolution satellite imagery, data and analytics tools to the university鈥檚 Earth Lab initiative in order to advance earth and space science research. DigitalGlobe operates the most sophisticated commercial imaging satellite constellation in orbit, which...

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CU Boulder's newest minor - in space - has lift off

Aug. 30, 2016

Capitalizing on its reputation as a top public university in space research, the 麻豆视频 is launching a brand new Space Minor program for undergraduate students. The program, a component of CU Boulder鈥檚 Grand Challenge: Our Space. Our Future. , will allow undergraduate students, regardless of major, to...

Lockheed Martin Chief Technology Officer Keoki Jackson met with several students working on Lockheed Martin-supported research projects. From left to right: Keoki Jackson, Andrew Wylde, Lt. Col. Diana Loucks, Caitlyn Cooke and Paige Anderson Arthur.

New partnership with Lockheed Martin forges research, career opportunities for students

Aug. 25, 2016

Paige Anderson Arthur got hooked on science fiction and the prospect of space travel when she started watching Star Trek at age 13. Now, the Denver native is immersed in aerospace engineering at CU Boulder, which is why she joined in the celebration Thursday as a new $3 million partnership...

Bioserve

Denver Post: With space station link, CU鈥檚 BioServe adapts to an evolving research role

Aug. 9, 2016

Shankini Doraisingam, staff operator of Bioserve Space Technologies, is monitoring astronaut Kate Rubins on the International Space Station BOULDER 鈥 Well before dawn, a wall-mounted video monitor flickers to life in a narrow, windowless room on the second floor of the University of Colorado鈥檚 Engineering Center, revealing a live, high-def...

Abby Benson

Benson named executive director of CU Boulder AeroSpace Ventures

July 7, 2016

Vice Chancellor for Research Terri Fiez named Abby Benson as the executive director of CU Boulder AeroSpace Ventures (ASV) effective July 1. Benson was previously the associate vice president of Government Relations for the University of Colorado system. CU Boulder AeroSpace Ventures is a global leader in interdisciplinary research and...

SpaceX Dragon

Hardware developed by CU-Boulder launched by SpaceX rocket

June 18, 2016

High-tech space hardware designed and built at the 麻豆视频 for biomedical experiments was successfully launched aboard the commercial SpaceX Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) early this morning. Developed by BioServe Space Technologies, a center headquartered in the aerospace engineering sciences department, the hardware will...

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Phontonics Online: JILA Extends Laser 鈥楥ombing' Method To Identify Large, Complex Molecules

May 4, 2016

JILA instrument that uses a frequency comb to detect large, complex moleculesbased on the precise frequencies, or colors, of light they absorb. Themolecules are chilled and probed inside this chamber at temperatures nearabsolute zero. Credit: Spaun/JILA JILA physicists have extended the capability of their powerful laser 鈥渃ombing鈥 technique to identify...

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