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CU Boulder earns $5M award for 5G cellular security research

Sept. 27, 2023

CU Boulder has earned a major award to ensure American soldiers, businesses and non-governmental organizations can use 5G cellular networks in foreign countries without hostile network operators being able to extract user information.

Attendees network at the second annual Sandia Day at CU Boulder

Sandia Day underscores benefits of national lab partnerships

Sept. 26, 2023

CU Boulder’s Sandia Day drew over 160 attendees for an agenda highlighting the partnership between the university and Sandia National Laboratories; potential future avenues for collaborative, globally impactful research; and job and internship opportunities.

Robots

CU Boulder offers new graduate program in robotics

Sept. 25, 2023

The new engineering program, offering both master's and doctoral degree options, will fill a growing need in an in-demand field—merging hardware and software engineering, mathematics and artificial intelligence into a single program.

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Interview with a hacker

Sept. 21, 2023

Assistant Professor Yueqi Chen says hacking can be ethical and is necessary to protect people. Learn more about his philosophy, journey and tips for starting on your own ethical hacking.

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Pioneering physics center gets $25M

Sept. 12, 2023

For nearly two decades, physicists at JILA have pioneered record-fast lasers that can fit on a table and have chilled clouds of atoms to just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. With a new award, their work is just getting started.

Bacteria

Small but not simple, bacteria compute without thinking

Sept. 12, 2023

New CU Boulder research shows that bacteria harness physical laws to operate at the edge of chaos and use calcium to independently diversify and find a place to settle down.

3D printing tip places layers of brown paste

3D printing with coffee: Turning used grounds into caffeinated creations

Sept. 8, 2023

Coffee could be the key to reducing 3D printing waste, according to a new study. Researchers with the ATLAS Institute and Department of Computer Science developed a method for 3D printing using a paste made out of old coffee grounds.

laser equipment glows in the dark

CU Boulder will help explore new frontiers of sound through $30M center

Sept. 7, 2023

Researchers from CU Boulder will take part in a new $30 million center to examine the potential for sound to revolutionize computing, communications, sensing disease in human tissue and more.

Person wearing purple gloves holding a small robot

Tiny, shape-shifting robot can squish itself into tight spaces

Aug. 30, 2023

Imagine a robot that can wedge itself through the cracks in rubble to search for survivors trapped in the wreckage of a collapsed building. Engineers at CU Boulder are moving one step closer to that goal with CLARI, short for Compliant Legged Articulated Robotic Insect.

Assistant Professor Sanghamitra Neogi

CU Boulder to lead million-dollar microelectronics research

Aug. 22, 2023

Sanghamitra Neogi has earned a $1 million Department of Defense contract to tackle a big problem with tiny electronics: microchips crippled by heat.

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