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- Engineers at CU Boulder are working on perfecting prosthetic fingertip sensors that allow patients to actually feel tactile and sensory sensations through nerve interfaces.
- Researchers at CU Boulder have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form bridges, ladders and floating rafts.
- New CU Boulder Gallogly Professor Tim White loved working at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, but found himself missing the chance to guide students early in their career. So, when a position at CU Boulder opened up in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, he decided to make the switch to academia from federal service.
- CU Boulder and University of Wyoming engineers have successfully scaled up an innovative water-cooling system capable of providing continuous day-and-night radiative cooling for structures.
- Brenton Kreiger, an architectural engineering PhD student in Professor Wil Srubar’s Living Materials Laboratory, is researching lichen for its application as a moisture buffer.
- CU Boulder students and faculty won the President’s Award from the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers at the Industrial Assembly Challenge in Tokyo this week.
- CU Boulder hosted the 2018 International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems this week at the University Memorial Center.
- Research funding in the College of Engineering and Applied Science reached $105 million overall in fiscal year 2018. That is the highest total ever for the college.
- New research and testing at the National Renewable Energy Lab outside of Boulder, with the help of CU Engineering, could transform the way wind turbines are created and used around the world - reducing costs along the way.
- The natural world has had billions of years of evolution to perfect systems, creating elegant solutions to tricky problems. CU Boulder Assistant Professor Orit Peleg’s work hopes to illuminate and explore those solutions with the long-term goal of applying the answers she finds to the materials we interact with daily.