James Rosenblum outside next to a truck.

Former postdoc heading new sustainable water center in Denver

Jan. 15, 2019

A former CU Boulder postdoctoral researcher has been hired to run the new Colorado Center for a Sustainable Water-Energy Education, Science and Technology (WE2ST) - Water Technology Hub at the Colorado School of Mines.

Andrew Kramer outside in a canyon

PhD student鈥檚 work could map caves on moon and Mars听

Jan. 8, 2019

Andrew Kramer is working on his PhD Assistant Professor Christoffer Heckman. His thesis is in computational modeling of complex systems and is funded through the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship.

Kristyn Sample

From there to here: a nontraditional path to an aerospace career

Jan. 8, 2019

Kristyn Sample struggled to find her place after high school. The Columbia, Missouri native was getting by working waitressing jobs around Kansas City, but knew she wanted more. Now 27, Sample has graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder as an aerospace engineer, is newly married, has left a legacy...

A drone in the woods

CU Engineers want drones to go subterranean to save lives after earthquakes

Jan. 8, 2019

CU Boulder engineering professor Sean Humbert is leading a team in a national competition, the Subterranean Challenge. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency gifted the university a $4.5 million grant to fund Humbert's team.

Wreckage from Hurricane Patricia in 2015.

$3M center to support rapid-response research of natural disasters

Jan. 4, 2019

CONVERGE will establish a new Reconnaissance Leadership Corps made up of engineers and social and natural scientists. They鈥檒l offer training, develop a series of best practice documents on safety considerations and working with socially vulnerable populations and help researchers establish a scientific agenda before heading into the field.

A close up of a team's low-cost educational breadboard at Catalyze CU.

CU Engineering + Entrepreneurship Year in Review

Dec. 21, 2018

It鈥檚 been a big year for CU Engineering entrepreneurship. After starting at CU Boulder in mid-January, I have been focused on creating the most impactful set of integrated resources and opportunities, in and out of the classroom, to support our student and faculty founders and align with our college鈥檚 Strategic Vision.

An astronaut on a spacewalk.

Students designing augmented reality system for astronauts

Dec. 20, 2018

NASA is turning to university students for help with the next big space technology 鈥 augmented reality. The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected by NASA as one of 16 colleges to participate in the Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) 2019 challenge. The mission? To develop an...

Abbie Liel portrait on blue background

Retrofit research at CU shaping policy on earthquakes, non-ductile buildings

Dec. 20, 2018

CU Boulder Associate Professor Abbie Liel studied the issue of retrofitting non-ductile concrete buildings in high population areas through a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Yao Zhai in research lab

Outstanding Dissertation Award: Yao Zhai

Dec. 18, 2018

Postdoctoral Associate Yao Zhai鈥檚 love for science began when he was young. He remembers looking up to his grandfather, who went from having nothing to establishing a manufacturing company all by himself. 鈥淚 dreamed of inventing something and making it useful in the world,鈥 Zhai said.

Darice Guittet on a climbing excursion outside Boulder.

Outstanding Graduate for Academic Achievement: Darice Guittet

Dec. 18, 2018

As a climber and a mathematician, Darice Guittet doesn鈥檛 shy away from a problem.

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