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Air Quality Inquiry project extends from rural Colorado into Mongolia

Sept. 21, 2020

For three years, Air Quality Inquiry has been reaching K-12 students across rural Colorado. This year, Daniel Knight and his team extended the program across the globe to reach Public Lab Mongolia, a nonprofit whose mission is to make data available to the Mongolian public.

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Unmask the Racism: CU students challenge anti-Asian racism through social media campaign

Sept. 21, 2020

Unmask the Racism is a social media campaign created by students of Asian heritage at CU Boulder to spread awareness about xenophobia and racism against people of Asian heritage around the country and to support local Asian businesses.

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鈥淔ine-tuning鈥 catalyst performance for sustainable hydrogen peroxide synthesis

Sept. 17, 2020

New research from Professor J. Will Medlin and collaborators at three other institutions points to a new, inexpensive and sustainable method of synthesizing hydrogen peroxide.

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Supporting one another during 14-day quarantine

Sept. 16, 2020

Together we can, and will, Protect our Herd.

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Rankings: College continues to climb, computer science debuts strong

Sept. 16, 2020

The College of Engineering and Applied Science gained another spot in U.S. News and World Report 鈥檚 Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs rankings for 2021, moving up to No. 15 among public universities. The magazine, which has been ranking educational programs since 1983, also released its inaugural list of Best Undergraduate...

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Alumni Volunteer Spotlight: Shane Fleming, MechEngr'08

Sept. 16, 2020

Shane Fleming (MechEngr鈥08) is proof that an engineering degree can open doors across a wide variety of professions. His professional story has been eye-opening to CU Engineering students, showing that a degree in engineering doesn鈥檛 require specialization in a single field. Shane also graduated at the onset of the 2008...

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Engineer-turned-photographer finds 鈥楽tillness鈥 in quarantine

Sept. 14, 2020

Kent Burkhardsmeier (ArchEngr鈥84) did something many intended but few have accomplished during the COVID-19 quarantine: He published a book.

Artist's depiction of the twin Janus spacecraft. (Credit: Lockheed Martin)

Where no spacecraft has gone before: A close encounter with binary asteroids

Sept. 10, 2020

CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. These bodies are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like the Earth and moon. In a project review...

OSIRIS-REx observed small bits of material leaping off the surface of the asteroid Bennu on Jan. 19, 2019. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin)

How small particles could reshape Bennu and other asteroids

Sept. 9, 2020

In January 2019, NASA鈥檚 OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting the asteroid Bennu when the spacecraft鈥檚 cameras caught something unexpected: Thousands of tiny bits of material, some just the size of marbles, began to bounce off the surface of the asteroid鈥攍ike a game of ping-pong in space. Since then, many more such...

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New paper in Biomaterials explores microgel scaffolds for wound regeneration

Sept. 8, 2020

Alexander Caldwell, who recently earned his PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, is the co-first author with graduate student Varsha Rao on a new paper in Biomaterials.

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