Dr. Thomas Cech

Dr. Tom Cech Inducted into the 2024 Boulder County Business Hall of Fame

Aug. 19, 2024

Dr. Tom Cech Inducted into the 2024 Boulder County Business Hall of Fame Encouraging and Recognizing Business Excellence : The Boulder County Business Hall of Fame is a private, nonprofit 501C3 dedicated to the encouragement of business excellence in Boulder County by recognizing and inducting Boulder County business leaders into...

Sabrina Spencer, PhD Presents at Biden Cancer Moonshot Program

Dr. Sabrina Spencer Shares Cancer Research Expertise with the Office of Science and Technology Policy White House Cabinet Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar

July 24, 2024

White House Science Official Comes to CU Anschutz for Cancer Briefing, Moonshot Updates Arati Prabhakar, PhD, and a panel of elected officials and CU leaders shared information on the fight against cancer. Dr. Sabrina Spencer, a CU Boulder Biochemistry Professor and CU Cancer Center member, recently presented her lab's cancer...

Sabrina Spencer Accepts the Anne Heidenthal Prize

Chroma awards Prof. Sabrina Spencer, PhD the Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research

July 18, 2024

From the Chroma Technology Website: This year, Chroma Technology is happy to present the Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research award to Prof. Sabrina Spencer from the University of Colorado Boulder. This annual international prize is awarded to a young scientist who has performed extraordinary research in the field of...

Nobel Laureate and University of Colorado, Boulder researcher Thomas R. Cech. Glenn J. Asakawa/University of Colorado

Here’s what a Nobel Prize-winning scientist wants you to know about the Covid-19 vaccines and the future of RNA

June 6, 2024

Dr. Thomas Cech, Nobel Laureate, in an interview with CNN, provides insight into how RNA has impacted modern medicine and biology and how mRNA, holds promise for future vaccines and other scientific and health-related breakthroughs. For many years, Cech has researched RNA and taught chemistry to undergrads at the University...

Professor Jeffrey Cameron

Innovative Project Led by CU Boulder Biochemistry Professor Jeffrey Cameron Selected for New Frontiers in Bio-Integrated Organic Computing & Low-energy Innovative Carbon-based Manufacturing (BIO-CLIC)

April 25, 2024

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) and New Frontiers Grant partners—the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and the School of Education—announced planning grant winners in the inaugural round of the New Frontiers Grant Program , a novel initiative designed to foster new, interdisciplinary...

Professor Jeff Cameron

RASEI Fellows CU Boulder Biochemistry Professor Jeff Cameron and CU Boulder Physics Professor Ivan Smalyukh: Potential New Ways to Use Bacterial Systems in Bio-Manufacturing

March 15, 2024

Bacterial Disco Lights: Using light to control the movement and arrangement of cyanobacteria to form liquid crystalline active matter This collaboration, between a bacterial biochemist and a condensed-matter physicist, uses light to control the movement and arrangement of cyanobacteria, forming two- and three-dimensional nematic liquid crystalline states that could provide...

Amy Palmer Portrait

Amy Palmer, CU Boulder Professor of Biochemistry, wins Cogswell Award for Inspirational Teaching

March 2, 2024

Amy Palmer, CU Boulder professor of biochemistry, wins the Cogswell Award for Inspirational Teaching to recognize her for revamping classroom experiences, championing diversity and striving to connect with students ‘beyond the course curriculum’. Palmer, who is faculty director of the Honors Program, joined the CU Boulder faculty in 2005. She...

Marvin Caruthers Portrait

CU Regents Bestow Honorary Degree on Marvin Caruthers

Feb. 15, 2024

Marvin Caruthers Honorary degree Through remarkable professional achievements and philanthropic contributions, Marvin Caruthers has created tremendous impact at CU Boulder, in the local community and throughout society. A distinguished professor of biochemistry, he joined the faculty in 1973, first in the Department of Chemistry and continuing later when Biochemistry became...

Halil Aydin

Halil Aydin Sheds Light on Mitochondria... Not Just the Powerhouse of the Cell

Oct. 19, 2023

Newly published CU Boulder research reveals previously unknown qualities of a gene vital to a cell’s mitochondrial structure and function A key takeaway from first-year biology is that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells—it’s the thing most people know about them. However, mitochondria perform a large array of functions for...

Aaron Whiteley

ASM Award for Early Career Basic Research: Aaron Whiteley, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder

Sept. 29, 2023

CU Boulder researcher Aaron Whiteley is recognized by the American Society for Microbiology for his work exploring bacterial immune responses and how it translates to the human immune system A University of Colorado Boulder researcher has been recognized with the 2024 American Society for Microbiology Award for Early Career Basic...

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