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- In this podcast, Denise Powell, ATLAS lecturer and Social Impact alumna, shares with Joseph Kerski, education manager and geographer for Esri, and Directions magazine her impressions of the ATLAS Social Impact program. For the past few years Kerski has guest lectured to Social Impact MS students, showing how GIS can be used to help them make better decisions in the field.
- TechXplore writes about PufferBot, an actuated, expandable structure that can be used to fabricate shape-changing aerial robots.
- ATLAS undergraduate program begins the year under a new name and new leadership, with Arielle Hein taking the reins from Matt Bethancourt.
- To more closely align degree names with updated curricula, the College of Engineering and Applied Science has renamed all ATLAS academic programs Creative Technology and Design.
- In a project led by ATLAS PhD student, Shanel Wu, the Unstable Design Lab and LOOMIA jointly ran a survey asking those working in e-textiles how they liked to talk about their work. The results are a fascinating exploratory poke into the interdisciplinary nature of the emerging e-textiles field.
- ATLAS instructor and STEM outreach coordinator Shaz Zamore spoke to CU Boulder Today about their experiences as a Black person who grew up with a love for the outdoors—and the challenges facing people of color who are just beginning their careers in nature-centric fields like ecology, zoology and botany.Â
- Ellen Do, professor and director of partnership and innovation in the ATLAS Institute, will be a keynote speaker.
- Imagine a textile that cleaned itself, killing viruses and bacteria, and dissolving flecks of embedded organic material.
- The Museum of Boulder's offerings include the new Playzeum exhibit, with musical hexagons designed by ATLAS Lecturer Jiffer Harriman.