17-year-old CU Boulder graduate Brian Tan

‘Powerhouse’ computer science student set to graduate at 17

May 4, 2023

Brian Tan taught himself calculus at 13, took the SAT at 14, got a GED at 16 and got his associate's degree in computer science in the same year. Tan is young, but it is also his contributions to his classes and research groups on which his collaborators and mentors remark.

Some student members from the 2023 team pose during the Solar Decathlon Competition

CU Boulder team takes top engineering prize with community housing project

April 27, 2023

An affordable, net-zero energy home designed by CU Boulder students was honored as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2023 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge. The home is part of a partnership between the university, Flatirons Habitat for Humanity and the city of Boulder.

Biotech building on East Campus

Chemical and biological engineering seniors win graduating student awards

April 21, 2023

Ten graduating seniors from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering earned graduating student awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science this year.

Researcher holding the UV device used in the study

Study shows personal disinfection device safe for use in public spaces

April 19, 2023

Imagine carrying a UV device in your backpack and pulling it out to disinfect your bus seat or restaurant table. A new CU Boulder study shows that using a technology called Far UV-C kills almost 100% of pathogens within a few seconds, without risk to human bystanders.

Albert Velasco Abadia

Doctoral student honored for shape-changing ‘smart’ materials research

April 19, 2023

Albert Velasco Abadia was awarded the prestigious Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award for his research using biological catalysts—also known as enzymes—for triggering shape reconfigurations in liquid crystal network “smart” materials.

Oakland Bay Bridge

Civil engineering alumna advancing disaster risk reduction

March 28, 2023

Casie Venable currently works in San Francisco for Arup, a global collective of designers, engineers and consultants dedicated to sustainable development.

Katie Chambers in front of the U.S. capitol building

Certificate programs and research shaped civil engineering alumna’s time at CU Boulder

March 22, 2023

With a full-ride scholarship for a doctoral program, Katie Chambers studied water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income settings during her time at CU Boulder. She now works for the U.S. government.

Majid Zamani in the classroom

Working toward safer autonomous systems

Feb. 23, 2023

Majid Zamani is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. He leads the Hybrid Control Systems Lab and helps protect human life through safer autonomous systems.

Orit Peleg

Talking with the fireflies: Orit Peleg receives CAREER Award

Feb. 23, 2023

The assistant professor of computer science has just received $900,000 over the next five years to learn how fireflies in a swarm synchronize their lighting displays. She's using LEDs, VR and big tents in the wilderness to signal to the fireflies...and they're signaling back.

Shelby Buckley

Environmental engineering on an icebreaker ship at the North Pole

Feb. 6, 2023

Shelby Buckley has made the research trip of a lifetime—studying the impacts of climate change up close and personal on a five-week trip to the Arctic aboard an icebreaking ship.

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