An air purifier the size of a water bottle sits among wine glasses on a restaurant table

How one restaurant’s experiment may help diners breathe safely

April 14, 2021

The Washington Post looks at how an air monitoring system designed by CU Boulder's Mark Hernandez is helping a California restaurant keep its patrons safer during COVID.

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Six CU Boulder Chemical and Biological Engineering students selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

April 12, 2021

The GRFP is a five-year fellowship that honors graduate students working in science and engineering fields supported by the NSF. Students selected for the fellowship receive $34,000 in annual stipend funds.

Longji Cui

Combined energy sources return a burst of photons from plasmonic gold nanogaps

April 12, 2021

Assistant Professor Longji Cui is the first author on a new paper that describes a phenomenon which drastically boosts light emissions from a nanoscale device.

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A house run on the sun: How a team of CU students SPARC-ed advances for modern mountain housing

April 12, 2021

From April 15-18, CU Boulder will compete in the Solar Decathlon Build Challenge against nine other teams from the U.S., as well as from The Netherlands, Chile and Canada.

Jorge Poveda

By combining machine learning and control theory, Poveda expands field of autonomy

April 12, 2021

Jorge Poveda has been working for years to improve the ways autonomous systems overcome problems they encounter on the job. It’s complex work that could impact our everyday life, like our daily commute in autonomous cars, to more imaginative goals like swarms of robots working in unison. By combining concepts from artificial intelligence and machine learning with well-known control theories, he may have found a new approach that could prove key to moving forward on many fronts.

Danielle Szafir

NSF CAREER award supports Danielle Szafir’s data-visualization research

April 9, 2021

Danielle Szafir's research focuses on visualization, computer science, HCI, perceptual psychology, and color science. Her project is titled “Developing Perceptually-Driven Tools for Estimating Visualization Effectiveness .â€

Mike Scofield

Alumnus examines role of HVAC in COVID-19 transmission

April 9, 2021

For decades, CU Engineering alumnus Mike Scofield (MechEngr’60) has focused on developing and selling heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems that contribute to more comfortable indoor environments. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, that focus has shifted to place a greater emphasis not just on individuals’ comfort but also...

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Computer Science at 50

April 9, 2021

The department has become known for championing collaboration and diversity in the computing field. Ken Anderson Chair Bobby Schnabel Chair When the Department of Computing Science — soon renamed Computer Science — was established at CU Boulder in 1970, no one anticipated how ubiquitous computing would soon become. Fifty years...

Shu-Wei Huang

New imaging technique could help catch osteoarthritis early

April 7, 2021

Shu-Wei Huang's research focuses on ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, and microscopy. His project is titled “Dual-comb Photoacoustic Microscopy with Super-resolution Wavefront Shaping.â€

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DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative webinar

April 6, 2021

The Research & Innovation Office invites DoD-funded basic researchers to a virtual information session on the Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program on April 14.

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