Varsha Rao

Setting the stage for cell 'directors' to repair fractures: Rao wins Three Minute Thesis competition

March 4, 2021

What do movie sets and biomaterial environments have in common? According to Varsha Rao, a fifth-year PhD student in the Anseth Lab who placed first in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Feb. 16, they both need "directors" to call the shots.

Visualization of an astronaut on Mars.

Help is a long way away: The challenges of sending humans to Mars

March 2, 2021

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stepped out a lunar lander onto the surface of the moon. The landscape in front of him, which was made up of stark blacks and grays, resembled what he later called 鈥渕agnificent desolation.鈥 When it comes to desolation, however, the moon...

Snake skin

Snakeskin inspires new, friction-reducing material

March 2, 2021

A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic 鈥渟kin鈥 as slippery as the scales of a snake. The research, published recently in the American Chemical Society journal Applied Materials & Interfaces, addresses an under-appreciated problem in engineering: Friction.

Cross-sectional SEM image of the spin-coated MAPbI3 film processed from DMF precursor solution (annealed for 5 s at 100 掳C) on a PTAA-covered ITO glass substrate.

Growing a better, more affordable solar cell from perovskite

March 2, 2021

While solar panels have traditionally used silicon-based cells, researchers are increasingly looking to perovskite-based solar cells to create panels that are more efficient, less expensive to produce and can be manufactured at the scale needed to power the world.

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Velcro-like cellular proteins key to tissue strength

March 1, 2021

Where do bodily tissues get their strength? New CU Boulder research provides important new clues to this long-standing mystery, identifying how specialized proteins called cadherins join forces to make cells stick鈥攁nd stay stuck鈥攖ogether.

Gitanjali Rao

Gitanjali Rao, celebrated young STEM innovator, to present at Womxn of Color in STEM Brunch

March 1, 2021

Rao was recognized as America's Top Young Scientist and received an EPA presidential award for inventing her device "Tethys"鈥攁n early lead detection tool. Rao is also the inventor of 鈥淓pione鈥濃攁 device for early diagnosis of prescription opioid addiction using genetic engineering, and "Kindly"鈥攁n anti-cyberbullying service using AI and natural language processing.

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CU Engineering launches new International Student Advisory Board

March 1, 2021

Composed of 10 students across academic levels and departments, the board meets monthly to identify projects and set goals the board wishes to achieve.

Christine Darden

Students hear from NASA legend Christine Darden

Feb. 25, 2021

It was part seminar on supersonic flight and part discussion of life at NASA during the space race. Christine Darden shared her story to University of baby直播app Boulder students during a special event Feb. 23, 2021, held as part of a series of Black History Month celebrations. Over 200 people attended the webinar, hosted by...

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Why do men publish more research papers than women? Motherhood plays key role

Feb. 25, 2021

The study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, suggests that persistent differences in parenting roles are the key reason that men tend to publish more research papers than women.

Skull

New wave technique allows for better understanding of the skull

Feb. 25, 2021

Matteo Mazzotti is the first author on two new studies that measure the dynamic response of the human skull, potentially providing a new and non-invasive way to monitor the cranial bone and brain.

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