Vanessa Aponte Williams Headshot

Alumni Volunteer Spotlight: Vanessa Aponte Williams, AeroEngr'06

Feb. 14, 2020

Vanessa Aponte Williams (AeroEngr鈥06) is a stand out volunteer and proud alumna from the College of Engineering and Applied Science. In 2016, Williams received the College of Engineering and Applied Science Recent Alumni Award for her career achievements, community service, and remaining involved with the college as a volunteer. The...

Tam Vu in the hallway of the Engineering Center

Computer science professor wins Sloan Fellowship for 'earable' device research

Feb. 13, 2020

Tam Vu says the award will help him "innovate and develop a next generation of wearable devices to improve humans鈥 cognitive function and well-being from around and inside their ears."

Kristi Anseth in lab

Professor Kristi Anseth earns international recognition with L鈥橭real-UNESCO For Women in Science award

Feb. 12, 2020

She is one of only five women in the world, and the only recipient in North America, to receive the recognition this year.

Robots inspired by the design of bugs

From insects to robots: Jayaram takes inspiration from nature

Feb. 11, 2020

Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram sees nature as a giant catalogue of design ideas. Engineers can 鈥渓eaf through鈥 it to see how various species have overcome problems鈥搈any of the solutions exquisitely developed over time to perfection.

Lahijanian speaking with a student in his lab.

Beyond mundane: Lahijanian鈥檚 work in safety-critical systems pushes autonomy forward

Feb. 10, 2020

After decades of work to make robots more and more capable of helping humans, robotic systems have become ever-present in our daily lives, helping with tasks big and small.

Michelle in the UMC with students moving around her.

Suddenly silent

Feb. 7, 2020

Michelle Galetti (TAM'20) had good reason to leave college. She chose to stay.

T9 Hacks Group in 2019 including Cassandra Goodby second to the right

How a hackathon solution inspired a problem-solver: T9Hacks and Cassandra Goodby

Feb. 6, 2020

Five years ago, Cassandra Goodby sketched out her first website mockups at the T9Hacks hackathon. Now she鈥檚 the lead organizer for the hackathon, a master鈥檚 student in the Creative Technologies and Design (CTD) track of the Technology, Media & Society program in the ATLAS Institute, and a professional user experience specialist for NIST, the National Institute for Standards and Technology. She still remembers the jolt of that initial spark.

Portrait of Xiaoyun Ding

Keck funded research offers new tool to understand cells better

Feb. 6, 2020

New research at CU Boulder, funded by a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, aims to create a new system to study the mechanical properties of cells using surface acoustic waves.

Subterranean drone competition

Drones go underground in high-stakes competition

Feb. 6, 2020

Roughly one story belowground, in an undisclosed location in Boulder County, close to a dozen engineers hustle up and down a series of utility tunnels.

3D printing in space with gregory whiting

CU researchers to explore 3D printing in reduced gravity with NASA grant

Feb. 4, 2020

Associate Professor Gregory Whiting and his research group are preparing for the thrill of a lifetime: two parabolic flights, each expected to provide around ten total minutes of reduced gravity to test and model how 3D printing of functional materials works in lunar gravity.

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