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Using augmented reality drum circles to fix latency and improve collaborations

Jan. 20, 2021

Long before the pandemic sent people scrambling into isolation, musicians have longed to jam virtually with others across the globe. Now researchers from CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute’s ACME Lab and Ericsson Research are developing ways for musicians to play together remotely through the AR Drum Circle project.

Jenifer Blacklock

Blacklock returns to CU as director of Western partnership program

Jan. 20, 2021

Former Mechanical Engineering faculty member Jenifer Blacklock has returned to the College of Engineering and Applied Science as the director of the Rady Program at Western Colorado University. She will lead the Western-CU Boulder Partnership Program.

CU Boulder students Halle Sago, Ryan Carroll andSylvia Akoldiscuss data input for built environment surveys in Denver high school classrooms.

Researchers fight COVID-19 with new air filtration in Denver Public Schools

Jan. 11, 2021

Since the summer, Professor Mark Hernandez of civil, environmental and architectural engineering and his team have been working in the district’s classrooms to install a new generation of high-efficiency air filters.

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Register now for material characterization facility virtual open house

Jan. 8, 2021

The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) core research facility will have a virtual open house on Jan. 29 via Zoom.

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A Message to Our Community: U.S. Capitol Violence

Jan. 8, 2021

We must recognize that the individuals involved in yesterday’s incident are a part of America, while also demonstrating that behaviors, values, and beliefs of white supremacy, patriarchy, and overall oppression will not be accepted nor tolerated.

Female farmers work in field in India

Seeds of change: ATLAS students present paper on poverty cycles in rural India

Jan. 8, 2021

When three first-year ATLAS master's students in the Social Impact track of the Creative Technology and Design master’s program learned of the staggering suicide rate of male farmers in rural India and the suffering that ensues for their surviving family members, they wanted to explore effective interventions.

Nicole Labbe

Nicole Labbe will explore high-altitude ignition

Jan. 8, 2021

Labbe's research focuses on chemical kinetics, renewable fuels, combustion modeling, reactive flows. Her project is titled “Kinetic Behavior of Post-Flameout Ignition Events.”

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Mechanical researchers featured in Biomaterials Science

Jan. 5, 2021

Yu Gao, a postdoctoral associate in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, is the lead author of a new paper in Biomaterials Science that is highlighted on the back cover.

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Nanostructure research reveals new ways to direct heat flow in tech devices

Jan. 5, 2021

New findings from CU Boulder researchers in Physical Review Applied show that nanoscale structures on the surfaces of silicon membranes can significantly change the way that heat travels through the bulk of the membrane.

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The Year's Top CU Engineering Moments

Dec. 22, 2020

Looking back, 2020 was a year unlike any other (some might even say, “unprecedented”), but that didn’t stop us from doing what we do best: engineering. That’s why we gathered our top 10 moments to wrap up 2020.

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