This month, six student teams began an intense summer season as part of CU Boulder鈥檚 Catalyze CU startup accelerator. The program ends Aug. 25 with Demo Day, where teams will pitch their concepts before a live audience at Macky Auditorium.
At the heart of the expansion will be a startup hub where students can meet and collaborate on entrepreneurial projects, as well as a 鈥済enius bar.鈥 The space will cater to students from all majors and backgrounds, not just those from business and engineering.
CU Boulder researchers led by engineer Mark Rentschler have built a robot the size of a C battery designed to seek out and even take biopsies of intestinal polyps and other signs of illness. The group hopes that the machine will one day make colonoscopies easier for patients and more efficient for doctors.
The future of higher education and connecting CU Boulder with the startup community were common themes woven throughout the six University Track sessions at Boulder Startup Week (BSW), sponsored by CU Boulder.
While the CUbit Quantum Initiative is only five months old, Associate Director Juliet Gopinath has been energized by the potential of the cross-campus project. Gopinath said engineering鈥檚 role is to come up with scientifically interesting devices that can help make quantum systems practical.
Last month, the first Human Performance Summit drew nearly 250 participants from the military, athletic, investment, scientific, academic and entrepreneurial communities to CU Boulder鈥檚 Champions Center.
The Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), hosted annually by Venture Partners at CU Boulder awards grants to campus researchers whose technologies demonstrate high commercial potential.
By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, CU Boulder researchers were able to create 鈥渓iving factories鈥 that eat harmful CO2 and convert it into useful products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)鈥攖he parent organization of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)鈥攈as just released a catalogue of benchmark data sets, including four from CU Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), to promote as trusted sources, simplify user access and support global policy makers.
In the not-so-distant future, researchers may be able to build atoms to your specifications with the click of a button. It鈥檚 still the stuff of science fiction, but a team at CU Boulder reports that it is getting closer when it comes to controlling and assembling particles called 鈥渂ig atoms."
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