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Students collaborate on NSF NCAR exhibit that highlights surprising climate science

Oct. 7, 2024

An interdisciplinary team transforms complex research into an interactive museum exhibit on how ice sheets influenced weather millennia ago.

Mike Rivera talks to several guests in the Utility Research Lab

Brewing Sustainability: Michael Rivera powers up 3D printing with coffee grounds

Sept. 26, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University alumni profile details how our Utility Research Lab director employs sustainable materials in place of plastics in 3D printing and textile development.

Carson Bruns in a white lab coat working with tattoo equipment in his lab

Bruns receives Provost's Faculty Achievement Award

Sept. 20, 2024

ATLAS assistant professor, Carson Bruns, was among a group of five CU Boulder pre-tenure faculty recognized for excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service. He was selected for his research on smart tattoos.

A large metal sculpture of a "greater than / less than" sign hangs in a modern art gallery

Denver artist Joel Swanson questions everything

Sept. 16, 2024

ATLAS associate professor's new gallery show, "Orderings," challenges basic assumptions of everyday order through sculpture, mixed media, video and more.

Christopher Gaines holds clay-colored square with a tactile representation of a sun petroglyph

Touching the Sun with Solar Stones

Aug. 27, 2024

ATLAS undergraduate students partnered with NASA's PUNCH mission and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind to make tactile representations of ancient petroglyphs.

Laura Devendorf stands smiling in the Unstable Design Lab while holding a colorful woven form and showing it to guests

Devendorf bridges engineering and craft communities with new initiative

Aug. 13, 2024

The Unstable Design Lab director has embarked on the first phase of a years-long project to bring together engineering and craft communities to advance textile research across a range of scientific disciplines.

Community members stand around a table playing with Collaborator together at EXPO 2024 in the Audio Frequency Lab

ATLAS Team Scores at SynthUX Hackathon

June 3, 2024

A team of students in the Audio Frequency Lab designed and built the Collaborator multi-player synthesizer, taking home top honors at this year's Synthux International Synth Design Hackathon.

Student tests Copilot accessibility features

Could AI be the next college teaching assistant? Some Colorado professors believe so

May 16, 2024

Some innovative classrooms, including the Generative AI class at ATLAS, are experimenting with ways to apply new AI tools in learning.

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2024 ATLAS Student Award Winners Announced

May 6, 2024

College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduating Student Awards Congratulations to the Spring 2024 Graduating Student Award winners for the College of Engineering and Applied Science! Were excited to see six ATLAS students among the recipients this year. View the complete list of winners on the College of Engineering &...

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Microbiology as meditation: Living Matter Lab explores livingness in time

April 8, 2024

The Living Matter Lab pursues a deeper understanding of alternative perspectives on temporality through a surprising medium: kombucha SCOBY.

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