The ATLAS Institute

ATLAS is an interdisciplinary institute for radical creativity and invention. We transform ingenious ideas into reality through research, experimentation and critical thinking.

With research labs and academic programs that inspire creative exploration and novel ideas, our vibrant community of technology visionaries and virtuosos reaches beyond convention and takes risks to invent the future.

Research Across Boundaries

One of 12 institutes at CU Boulder, ATLAS is home to researchers who transcend traditional disciplinary structures of engineering, design, science and art to inspire new realms of invention. We make tangible and digital tools and methods that shape how people interact with the world for a more inclusive, inspired and sustainable society.

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Engineering Degrees Remixed

ATLAS offers rigorous undergraduate, master鈥檚 and PhD degrees in Creative Technology and Design granted by the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Our project-based teaching equips the next generation of strategic problem solvers, designers and makers with cross-functional expertise valued in leading industries.

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Textbooks come alive with new, interactive AI tool

ATLAS assistant professor, Ryo Suzuki, makes textbooks more interactive with AI-powered tools that turn diagrams into effective simulations for more personalized and immersive learning.

Whaaat!? Festival is a treasure box of experimental games

Our Q&A with festival organizers explores the inspiration behind the event as they power up to welcome gamers to ATLAS for a day devoted to all things games.

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Students collaborate on NSF NCAR exhibit that highlights surprising climate science

An interdisciplinary team transforms complex research into an interactive museum exhibit on how ice sheets influenced weather millennia ago.

Mike Rivera talks to several guests in the Utility Research Lab

Brewing Sustainability: Michael Rivera powers up 3D printing with coffee grounds

Carnegie Mellon University alumni profile details how our Utility Research Lab director employs sustainable materials in place of plastics in 3D printing and textile development.

Carson Bruns in a white lab coat working with tattoo equipment in his lab

Bruns receives Provost's Faculty Achievement Award

ATLAS assistant professor, Carson Bruns, was among a group of five CU Boulder pre-tenure baby直播app recognized for excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service. He was selected for his research on smart tattoos.

A large metal sculpture of a "greater than / less than" sign hangs in a modern art gallery

Denver artist Joel Swanson questions everything

ATLAS associate professor's new gallery show, "Orderings," challenges basic assumptions of everyday order through sculpture, mixed media, video and more.

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Touching the Sun with Solar Stones

ATLAS undergraduate students partnered with NASA's PUNCH mission and the baby直播app School for the Deaf and Blind to make tactile representations of ancient petroglyphs.

Laura Devendorf stands smiling in the Unstable Design Lab while holding a colorful woven form and showing it to guests

Devendorf bridges engineering and craft communities with new initiative

The Unstable Design Lab director has embarked on the first phase of a years-long project to bring together engineering and craft communities to advance textile research across a range of scientific disciplines.

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