SpaceX launch

Students play key biomedical research role in SpaceX launch

Students played significant roles in the February 19 launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying two CU Boulder payloads—one designed to help researchers better understand and perhaps outsmart dangerous infections like MRSA, another to help increase the proliferation of stem cells in space, a potential boon for biomedical therapy on Earth.

Research computing

Engineers, computer scientists team up to improve particle simulations

The flow and movement of individual solid particles—be it grains of lunar dust or the powdered contents of a medication—holds tremendous research value for scientists in a variety of fields. Now, a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) will allow University of Colorado Boulder researchers to simulate particle behavior to a greater degree than ever before.

Dan Scheeres

Groundbreaking space missions, student success focus of Aerospace Summit

Alumni, industry execs and other space buffs celebrated the state’s growing prominence in aerospace—from probing the Bennu asteroid to an array of industry partnerships—at the second annual CU Boulder Aerospace Summit.

Updated Guidance Documents

March 17, 2017

The IRB has posted updated guidance documents regarding Research in Public Schools, IRB Authorization Agreements, and the use of Deception and Incomplete Disclosure in Research. Check out the Guidance Documents page to see these new guides.

Environmental Entrepreneurship specialization

Environmental entrepreneurship program develops aspiring business leaders

The new MENV Environmental Entrepreneurship specialization is tailored to address the needs of aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders who are driven to work at the intersection of mission, profit, and environmental responsibility.

Denver March for Science: April 22, 2017

When : Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Pre-march activities begin at 9:30 am. Speakers begin at 12:00 pm. Where : Civic Center Park, Denver, CO The Denver March for Science is a nonpartisan celebration of our passion for science and a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. From the...

CSO

New interdisciplinary center explores the beginnings - of everything

March 8, 2017

The new Center for the Study of Origins, a Grand Challenge initiative, provides "an interdisciplinary nexus for humanists, social scientists and natural scientists to engage in exciting and inspirational opportunities to address origins theories from a variety of perspectives," says Provost Russell Moore.

Cloud seeding

Cloud seeding aims to increase mountain snowfall, power generation

March 3, 2017

CU Boulder is participating in a cloud-seeding effort, launched this month, to increase winter snowfall in the mountains of southwest Idaho with hopes of ultimately increasing power generation by hydroelectric dams.

Innovation

Two distinguished profs recognized as top inventors

March 1, 2017

Distinguished Professors Leslie Leinwand (Chief Scientific Officer, BioFrontiers Institute; Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) and Chris Bowman (James and Catherine Patten endowed chair of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department) have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Clint Carroll

Prof preserves native traditions with help of National Science Foundation

Feb. 27, 2017

Clint Carroll will help to preserve tribal tradition and knowledge for future generations through the Faculty Early Career Development Award, a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

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