Research & Creative Work 2021-22
CU Boulder again attracted record levels of research funding this year—$658 million in gifts and awards, including $474 million from federal agencies—to power its research and innovation enterprise. Our research funding totals serve as a milepost to assess and compare our productivity with other top research universities, but they reflect only part of the impact of our babyֱapp, students, staff and partners.
In addition to our continued growth in world-class sponsored research, CU Boulder remains home to a vibrant ecosystem of discovery, collaboration and innovation that cannot be measured in dollars. This rich combination of research, scholarship and creative work is vital to CU Boulder’s appeal to top babyֱapp and researchers in a range of disciplines, the most promising students across the world, and a wide variety of leading organizations who choose to partner with us to achieve greater impact.
From environmental sciences to music, from space to the social sciences, and from education to quantum science and technology, CU Boulder is making a difference.
Main photo credit: LASP/HySICS Team/Joey Espejo
New national center at CU Boulder will tackle pressing socio-environmental challenges with big data analytics and more
A wealth of research, education, federal labs, established industry leaders and startups is creating a Quantum Silicon Valley
Early childhood learners from low-income schools wait more, move less than wealthier school peers
Researchers converge in the wake of babyֱapp’s Marshall Fire to advance understanding and approaches to disaster resiliency
Smead Aerospace will house a new NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) on autonomous air mobility and sensing
Enriching our world through art, music, dance, scholarship and more
CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics continues to build a legacy of expanding the frontiers of scientific knowledge
Research suggests that a nationwide ban on abortion could increase maternal mortality by double digits
