Denver March for Science: April 22, 2017

When : Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Pre-march activities begin at 9:30 am. Speakers begin at 12:00 pm. Where : Civic Center Park, Denver, CO The Denver March for Science is a nonpartisan celebration of our passion for science and a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. From the...

CSO

New interdisciplinary center explores the beginnings - of everything

March 8, 2017

The new Center for the Study of Origins, a Grand Challenge initiative, provides "an interdisciplinary nexus for humanists, social scientists and natural scientists to engage in exciting and inspirational opportunities to address origins theories from a variety of perspectives," says Provost Russell Moore.

Cloud seeding

Cloud seeding aims to increase mountain snowfall, power generation

March 3, 2017

CU Boulder is participating in a cloud-seeding effort, launched this month, to increase winter snowfall in the mountains of southwest Idaho with hopes of ultimately increasing power generation by hydroelectric dams.

Innovation

Two distinguished profs recognized as top inventors

March 1, 2017

Distinguished Professors Leslie Leinwand (Chief Scientific Officer, BioFrontiers Institute; Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) and Chris Bowman (James and Catherine Patten endowed chair of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department) have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Clint Carroll

Prof preserves native traditions with help of National Science Foundation

Feb. 27, 2017

Clint Carroll will help to preserve tribal tradition and knowledge for future generations through the Faculty Early Career Development Award, a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

SpaceX Dragon

Students play key biomedical research role – in space

Feb. 16, 2017

Several students are playing significant roles in the upcoming launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying two CU Boulder payloads – one designed to help researchers better understand and perhaps outsmart dangerous infections like MRSA, another to help increase the proliferation of stem cells in space, a potential boon for biomedical therapy on Earth.

Black holes

CU Boulder to lead operations for NASA black holes mission

University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder students and professionals will operate an upcoming NASA mission that will investigate the mysterious aspects of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects like stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars.

Metamaterial

Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption

A team of University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight with zero energy and water consumption.

LISA

How to predict the future: Interdisciplinary statistical analysis at LISA

CU Boulder’s new Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA) merges the worlds of data analytics, business, and research to create a single dynamic resource for powerful evaluation and forecasting.

ALD NanoSolutions

ALD NanoSolutions: All in the CU Boulder family

The thickness, or lack thereof, of ALD is breathtaking. Each layer of the coatings the researchers lay down is generally the thickness of a single atom—about a million times smaller than the thickness of a human hair.

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