A historic image of Steamboat Springs

Steamboat Springs receives historic town records from CU Boulder archives

Aug. 25, 2020

After more than 100 years away, a trove of records from the founding of Steamboat Springs has returned home.

A panoramic image of the Arctic Sea ice and researchers at night

Into the Polar Night: CU Boulder releases planetarium show about first months of epic expedition

Aug. 19, 2020

Viewers from Baltimore to Berlin can now step out onto an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean and watch and listen as scientists race the fading light to set up one of the most ambitious international climate collaborations ever, MOSAiC.

Darby Linn

Undergraduate goes in search of art

June 8, 2020

With the help of UROP funding, Darby Linn, art history and strategic communications (media design) major, spent last summer in search of paintings believed to have been confiscated by Nazis in World War II.

Environmental design students Marie Obermeier and Dean Behary

Colombian neighbors guide design project that leaves students tired but inspired

Dec. 13, 2019

Environmental design students returned from a hands-on planning studio last summer in Colombia with a broadened perspective of life in a marginalized community. Two students share their life-changing experience.

Joshua Tacca at computer

Grad student helps make prosthetic sockets out of recycled plastic

Nov. 18, 2019

Josh Tacca, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering, worked with prosthetists in Quito, Ecuador, last summer making prosthetic sockets using a 3D scanner and recycled plastic bottles.

Amy Linhoff on campus

Beyond Boulder: Finding clarity and direction on 500-mile trek through Spain

Aug. 9, 2019

For CU Boulder dance major Amy Linhoff, walking a 500-mile pilgrimage through Spain was a journey of self-discovery.

Laurie Cantillo

The creator of NASA’s first podcast

June 21, 2019

Alumna Laurie Cantillo was fresh out of college when she first spotted the Milky Way during an outdoor education trip in Utah. Since then, the director of communication and education at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been on a mission to share the wonders of space with the world.

Researchers

Beyond Boulder: CU Boulder researchers and IBM pilot sustainable groundwater modeling

March 6, 2019

An article in Forbes discusses how researchers are teaming up with IBM, The Freshwater Trust and SweetSense Inc. to pilot blockchain and satellite-connected sensor solutions to track groundwater usage in California.

PhD candidate Maya Livio, left, and undergraduate student Valerie Foley

Beyond Boulder: Students find fresh ways to promote art exhibit on climate change

Feb. 27, 2019

CU Boulder students bring individual perspectives to planning student activities for the CU Art Museum exhibition “Documenting Change,” where art and the natural world meet.

Book from the Latino History Project.

Beyond Boulder: Students shed new light on rich Latino history

Jan. 16, 2019

Three CU Boulder seniors interning with the Latino History Project are helping to document and preserve the past and making historical information available online to the public and for use by teachers in their classrooms.

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