A Black man and two children work on an electrical engineering project

Leeker will use NSF grant to promote participation of Black families in STEM

Sept. 9, 2024

Her project is focused on creating informal learning resources, including video workshops for caregivers, easy-to-use engineering activities, public dissemination of research results, and professional networks of STEM educators.

Zach Sunberg

Professor earns two major grants to advance AI for autonomous systems

Sept. 6, 2024

Zach Sunberg’s research developing better artificial intelligence systems is getting a major boost from two federal grant awards. Sunberg is receiving a $599,000, five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and is a partner on a related $4 million multi-university initiative from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Both...

A panoramic photo of the Dry McMurdo Valleys

How Earth’s most intense heat wave ever impacted life in Antarctica

Sept. 4, 2024

As part of a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in Antarctica, a research team led by Associate Dean for Research Mike Gooseff found that the unexpected melt followed by a rapid refreeze likely disrupted the life cycles of many organisms and killed a large swath of some invertebrates in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.

Wil Srubar in a button down shirt and jacket in front of the blurred out Flatirons,

Wil Srubar named associate dean for innovation & entrepreneurship at CU Boulder

Aug. 29, 2024

Professor Wil Srubar has been appointed as CU Boulder’s first Deming Associate Dean for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. This newly created role will focus on fostering innovation by providing education, mentorship and resources to faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students to drive the commercialization of intellectual property.

Closeup of blooming sunflowers

Why do plants wiggle? New study provides answers

Aug. 15, 2024

In a new study, researchers from the United States and Israel — including CU Boulder computer scientist Orit Peleg — may have gotten to the bottom of a quirky behavior of growing plants and a mystery that intrigued Charles Darwin during the later decades of his life.

Theodora Chaspari

AI for mental health screening may carry biases based on gender, race

Aug. 5, 2024

Some artificial intelligence tools for health care may get confused by the ways people of different genders and races talk, according to a new study led by CU Boulder computer scientist Theodora Chaspari.

Hernandez leads his team of four in taking radio observations from the 40-foot telescope

Engineering physics senior explores radio astronomy through summer research

Aug. 2, 2024

Engineering physics senior Angel Hernandez completed a boot camp on radio astronomy at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. Now he’s at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program, where he continues to explore the field.

Lauren Magliozzi samples water from a stream.

Wildfires don’t just burn. They can also pollute aquatic ecosystems

Aug. 2, 2024

When wildfires move into urban areas and burn artificial structures, toxic metals, including copper, lead, and zinc from building and car ash, can leach into streams and rivers, threatening water security and the health of aquatic organisms, says Lauren Magliozzi, a biogeochemist in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering.

An oil and gas drilling rig at Chevron’s Edmonson pad Feb. 7, 2024, in unincorporated Adams County. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun)

Can viruses help clean wastewater from fracking? It’s a “yes, but” from researchers.

Aug. 2, 2024

Early research shows viruses can hijack and kill bacteria in oil and gas wastewater — and potentially offer big savings to the industry — but it’s not a cure-all, says Professor Joe Ryan.

Matt Davidson, a research associate in the Burdick Lab, shows off a 3D-printed material that could be used for a variety of medical applications.

A Band-Aid for the heart? New 3D printing method makes this, and much more, possible

Aug. 2, 2024

A CU Boulder-led team, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, has developed a new 3D printing method for creating material that is elastic enough to withstand a heart’s persistent beating, tough enough to endure the crushing load placed on joints and easily shapable to fit a patient’s unique defects.

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