Community Edition - July 30, 2019 | CU Boulder Today

Community Edition - July 30, 2019

State of Colorado releases Higher Ed ROI report

Announcements & Deadlines Campus Community

Colorado today released its annual return on investment in higher education report, examining price, debt, choice and value. The results? There are positive outcomes from investing in postsecondary education.

麻豆视频 What's Here

Brandon Bell, a technician from Lighthouse Solar, installs solar panels on the roof of the building which houses the University of Colorado Center for Innovation and Creativity in Boulder.

CU Boulder chief sustainability officer to testify at House climate crisis hearing

Experts Shaping Policy Campus Community

CU Boulder Chief Sustainability Officer Heidi VanGenderen will be one of six witnesses testifying at the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis for the Committee鈥檚 first congressional field hearing on Thursday.

Research in Your Backyard

An image taken from the International Space Station shows orange swaths of airglow hovering in Earth鈥檚 atmosphere

Analyzing gravity waves at the edge of space

Space News Headlines

A CU Boulder professor emeritus is working on a research project slated for the International Space Station to help us better understand and forecast conditions on the edge of space.

CU Boulder postdoctoral researcher Philip Kragel

A computer system that knows how you feel

Health News Headlines

Could a computer, at a glance, tell the difference between a joyful image and a depressing one? According to new research, the answer is yes.

A high-performance battery for renewable energy storage

Science & Technology News Headlines

A low-cost, high-performance battery chemistry could one day lead to scalable grid-level storage for wind and solar energy that could help electrical utilities reduce their dependency on fossil fuels.

A mock-up of what a LunaSat might look like on the moon

Students to send hundreds of leaf-sized spacecraft to the moon

Space News Headlines

The Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone (GLEE) will reveal new information about the lunar surface and pave the way for human astronauts on the moon.

In Focus

Finding Community: Small but creative RoboBoat Club improvises during world competition

Finding Community Campus Community

A small team of CU Boulder students designed and built a fully autonomous robotic boat and took it on the road to an autonomous surface vehicle competition held June 17鈥�23 in South Daytona, Florida.