Class of 2024

Photo Gallery: Congratulations Engineering Buffs!

May 23, 2024

Congratulations to the College of Engineering & Applied Science Class of 2024! Welcome to the Forever Buffs family!

Global map showing terrestrial water storage over time. Source: Nature

Tracking Earth ice sheet melt from space

May 23, 2024

CU Boulder professor secures $800,000 NASA Grant Khosro Ghobadi-Far is advancing the science of climate change with orbiting satellites. Ghobadi-Far has earned an $800,000 grant from NASA to analyze data from the GRACE-FO satellites, which measure variations in Earth鈥檚 gravitational field. Although gravity may appear constant to humans, it actually fluctuates across Earth鈥檚 surface in ways that can be valuable to climate science.

Mach diamonds during the Chimera liftoff.

CU Boulder students launch hybrid rocket

May 16, 2024

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 University of Colorado Boulder aerospace senior design teams had come together and successfully designed,...

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Celebrating our AAPI community

May 3, 2024

This month we highlight members of our community who identify as Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and who are making contributions to our college and society as researchers, instructors, student leaders and alumni.

Magnus Boee on a ski slope holding a CU flag.

Magnus Boee: Balancing success in athletics and engineering

April 26, 2024

Magnus Boee, a graduate student in civil engineering, excelled in Nordic skiing for the Colorado Buffalos. As a Division 1 athlete, he completed both a BS and MS (expected spring 2024) in civil engineering while training and competing. Boee represented South Korea in Nordic skiing at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and is now aiming for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.

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CU Engineering faculty land prestigious multidisciplinary Department of Defense projects

April 18, 2024

Three faculty members from the CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science are conducting projects awarded through the U.S. Department of Defense鈥檚 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program.

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Zoya Popovic elected to the National Academy of Inventors

April 8, 2024

Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic is among 162 inventors named 2023 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Election as a fellow in the academy is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.

A laser system for detecting methane gas in the air sits on top of a tower at a oil and gas facility in Colorado. (Credit: Casey Cass/CU Boulder)

A real-life Eye of Sauron? New project to spot possible chemical threats in the air

April 2, 2024

Engineers at CU Boulder are developing an 鈥渁ll-seeing eye鈥 based on laser technology that could one day detect harmful particles in the air around cities or in factories.

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Joints that could heal themselves? Researchers could get there in five years

March 26, 2024

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) granted $39 million to a CU Boulder-led team to pioneer a single-shot joint treatment that would stop cartilage and bone from erosion and promote regrowth.

A man holds a solar panel as it comes off a production line in a factory

Researchers take major step toward developing next-generation solar cells

March 20, 2024

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Energy, CU Boulder's Michael McGehee and his international collaborators unveiled an innovative method to manufacture new solar cells, known as perovskite cells, an achievement critical for the commercialization of what many consider the next generation of solar technology.

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