Jared Lewis working in the COSINC facility (Photo provided)

Undergraduate gains valuable skills as student lab assistant

Sept. 15, 2021

Jared Lewis, a junior in mechanical engineering, has pursued opportunities that he might not have otherwise come across as an undergraduate were it not for his position with the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization facility.

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Show your pride, CU Boulder!

Sept. 15, 2021

The CU Boulder Pride Office is inviting the campus to celebrate and learn how to support our LGBTQ+ community through events and flag displays this fall.

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Enrollment bounces back in fall 2021

Sept. 15, 2021

CU Boulder’s enrollment numbers bounced back this fall, according to new enrollment data published Wednesday. The campus’s fall census marked undergraduate enrollment at 29,511 students, a 1.8% increase from fall 2020.

Pablo Beltran

Jazz doctoral student exemplifies personal resilience, professional determination

Sept. 15, 2021

During National Hispanic Heritage Month, the College of Music shares an inspirational story about the personal resilience and professional determination of doctoral student and tenor saxophonist Pablo Beltran.

The late Frances Draper

City Council remembers Frances Draper at public hearing on CU Boulder South annexation

Sept. 15, 2021

Boulder City Council took the next step toward approval of the proposed CU Boulder South annexation agreement. It also honored the late Frances Draper, a longtime university employee, for her instrumental leadership and collaborative spirit.

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Join the virtual Innovation & Entrepreneurship Campus Kickoff Sept. 21

Sept. 15, 2021

Want to turn your innovative ideas into impact? Get inspired at the campus kickoff to learn about all the amazing entrepreneurial resources CU Boulder has to offer.

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Scientist calculates ‘stickiness’ of strongly bonded particles

Sept. 15, 2021

New research shows it’s possible to calculate the viscosity of a substance with very strongly bonded particles. The calculation—previously thought impossible—is an important step toward understanding substances with promising potential for everything from quantum computing to clean energy.

The Apple Fire burns north of Beaumont, California in July 2020. (Photo: Brody Hessin via Wikimedia Commons)

New report shows links between air quality, climate change

Sept. 15, 2021

Human-caused emissions of air pollutants fell during last year’s COVID-19 economic slowdowns, improving air quality in some parts of the world, while wildfires and sand and dust storms in 2020 worsened air quality in other places, according to a new report with CIRES co-authors.

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Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing—a symposium Oct. 1

Sept. 15, 2021

With the demise of traditional gatekeepers, we are witnessing the rapid rise of alternative modes of both scholarly publishing and distribution, as well as the artistic exhibition of computer-generated works of art in digital environments. Learn more.

CU Boulder's Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building lights up at night

New $25 million research center to study the radio frequency spectrum

Sept. 15, 2021

The new effort, called SpectrumX, will address congestion in a "precious resource" that's key to technologies like mobile broadband, broadcasting and GPS.

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