Members of CU Boulder's Concrete Canoe Team stand under the spikes they made for their concrete canoe character, a stegosaurus.

CU Boulder shines at ASCE Symposium, advances to nationals

May 20, 2024

For the first time ever, CU Boulder's American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter is heading to the ASCE Civil Engineering Student Championships.

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22 CU Boulder engineering students earn major National Science Foundation fellowships

May 16, 2024

The National Science Foundation has bestowed 22 prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards to University of Colorado Boulder engineering students. The national awards recognize and support outstanding grad students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields who are pursuing research-based master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees. Awardees...

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CU Boulder students launch hybrid rocket

May 16, 2024

Blastoff! The rocket soared over the prairie, its unique engine screaming in unison with cheers from more than two dozen students. The months of work, late nights, calculations, and validations had all been worth it. Three University of Colorado Boulder aerospace senior design teams had come together and successfully designed,...

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Wyatt Shields selected as Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

May 14, 2024

Wyatt Shields has been honored with a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award for his contributions to teaching and research on medical microrobots, self-propelled miniature robots that one day might deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body.

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Unstoppable: Gabrielle Dunn honored as overall Outstanding Undergraduate of the College

May 9, 2024

Dunn was a peer mentor with the BOLD Center in spring 2021 and was honored as Outstanding Undergraduate of the College.

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Meet our Graduating Student Award winners

May 9, 2024

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Video: Engineering Projects Expo 2024

May 9, 2024

See new inventions and technologies created by teams of College of Engineering and Applied Science students. Capstone design projects, presented at the annual Engineering Projects Expo, feature new technology from mechanical engineering; computer science; electrical, computer and energy engineering; biomedical engineering; and civil, environmental and architectural engineering.

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Aerospace senior honored with perseverance award by CU Engineering

May 9, 2024

Graduating senior Mark Wilbourne is being honored with a 2024 Perseverance Award by the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The distinction honors undergraduate students who persevere despite adversity 鈥 above and beyond the inherent perseverance needed in any engineering major. What is your favorite memory from your time at...

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Spring Recognition Ceremony Information

May 9, 2024

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Social distancing plus vaccines prevented 800,000 COVID deaths, but at great cost

May 9, 2024

鈥淥ur work shows that behavior change can be a powerful force for slowing the spread of a dangerous and infectious respiratory disease for a long time,鈥 said study co-author Stephen Kissler, an assistant professor of computer science. 鈥淏ut with COVID-19, it came at a tremendous economic, social and human cost.鈥

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