A photo of someone using PhET Interactive Simulations

PhET simulations keep students engaged while learning science remotely

May 5, 2020

CU Boulder’s PhET Interactive Simulations are providing critical support to teachers, students and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A researcher seen on the MOSAIC expedition in the Arctic

Arctic research soars to new heights with drones

May 5, 2020

Students, postdocs and faculty are all contributing to an innovative atmospheric-research-by-drone project near the North Pole on Arctic sea ice.

Mosquito biting a person.

Scientists develop tool to improve disease model accuracy

May 5, 2020

What can researchers do when their mathematical models of the spread of infectious diseases don’t match real-world data?

CU summer camp participants using a handheld device

CU Boulder summer camps move online

May 5, 2020

Some campus units will be offering virtual science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), pre-collegiate and speech disorder camps for K-12 students this summer.

Part of a CubeSat that CU Boulder students are building remotely

Spacebound while homebound: CU Boulder students designing a satellite from home

May 5, 2020

Working entirely via Zoom, remote desktop connections and webcams, a CU Boulder team is constructing and programming a satellite none of its members can currently touch. Welcome to designing a CubeSat during the coronavirus pandemic.

The ATLAS Building

ATLAS research helps define the future of human-computer interaction

May 4, 2020

At a time when the field of human-computer interaction is becoming more important than ever, ATLAS researchers are making substantial contributions, recently contributing nine papers and two workshops to the world's leading conference for HCI.

A soil sample is seen

These tiny organisms could help solve big, real-world problems

May 4, 2020

Thousands of microbes, invisible to the naked eye, make life function as we know it. With climate change threatening to tip these processes out of balance, better understanding microbial activity could help humans adapt to looming crises.

California current

Ocean acidification prediction now possible years in advance

May 1, 2020

Researchers have developed a method that could enable scientists to accurately forecast ocean acidity up to five years in advance, which could have implications for improving economic and food security.

Obama signing the affordable care act

Affordable Care Act lived up to promise of buffering bankruptcy risk, study shows

April 30, 2020

A decade after President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, more people are fully insured, fewer are uninsured and people who lose their insurance intermittently are no longer at greater risk of bankruptcy, according to a new CU Boulder study.

Scientists investigate a glacier detachment site in Alaska

Global warming may increase risk of sudden glacier detachments

April 29, 2020

A CU Boulder-led study has identified triggers of a destructive glacial process that buried kilometers of Alaskan forest.

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