This home in Boulder County survived the Marshall Fire while others nearby weren't as fortunate. (Credit: Caroline Frischmon)

Weeks later, potentially harmful chemicals lingered in homes affected by Marshall Fire

July 6, 2023

Potentially harmful chemicals generated by the Marshall Fire in late 2021 may have lingered inside some Boulder County homes for weeks after the disaster—hiding in small particles of dust that residents could have mixed back into the air when they vacuumed carpets or turned on fans, according to recent research.

Karan Dikshit

CU Boulder adhesive research could boost medicine, electronics, and the environment

June 29, 2023

Karan Dikshit (PhDMatSci’22) is the first author on a paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces around new adhesive materials that not only allow for easy sticking and unsticking but could eventually contribute to sustainability efforts around the globe.

Nick Bottenus

Bottenus lands prestigious research award from Boettcher Foundation

June 22, 2023

Assistant Professor Nick Bottenus of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded a Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award for research advancing the state of ultrasound molecular imaging.

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Researchers narrow down list of potentially hazardous asteroids

June 13, 2023

Researchers from CU Boulder and NASA have completed a census of hundreds of large asteroids orbiting near Earth—gauging which ones could come precariously close to our planet over the next thousand years.

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New AB Nexus awardees advance innovative research collaborations

June 12, 2023

The intercampus program supports multidisciplinary research partnerships between CU Anschutz and CU Boulder.

Julian Hammerl makes adjustments to a metal cube representing a derelict spacecraft inside the ECLIPS facility.

Space tractor beams may not be the stuff of sci-fi for long

June 2, 2023

On Feb. 10, 2009, disaster struck hundreds of miles above the Siberian Peninsula. That evening, a defunct Russian satellite orbiting Earth crashed into a communications satellite called Iridium 33 moving at a speed of thousands of miles per hour. Both spacecraft erupted into a rain of shrapnel, sending more than...

Hanspeter Schaub

Hanspeter Schaub earns CU Boulder’s highest award for teaching and research

May 30, 2023

Schaub, a professor and chair of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder, was recently honored with the Hazel Barnes Prize. The award recognizes outstanding teachers who also have distinguished records in research and scholarship.

CU Boulder quantum leaders Greg Rieker, Jun Ye, Massimo Ruzzene, Keith Molenaar and Scott Diddams and others gathered to celebrate the official launch of the Quantum Engineering Initiative Lab space.

Leadership highlights investment, new projects at quantum engineering lab ribbon cutting

May 30, 2023

Leaders from across the CU Boulder campus and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) gathered last week to celebrate the official launch of the Quantum Engineering Initiative Lab space within the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Remote sensor interface showing details from the pump activity

Building a better bionic pancreas

May 30, 2023

Learn how smart watches and mobile apps could transform life for Type 1 diabetics.

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New seed grants from the Engineering Education and AI-Augmented Learning research theme will support range of topics

May 24, 2023

The Engineering Education and AI-Augmented Learning Interdisciplinary Research Theme awarded multiple seed grants this spring to help spur research teaming in the college and boost early projects with the high potential for societal impact.

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