Tobias Niederwieser and Alexander Hoehn in a BioServe laboratory with five FRDIGE units slated for delivery to NASA and the International Space Station.

Adapting research to social distancing on campus

June 22, 2020

After large portions of the University of Colorado Boulder shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, you could practically hear a pin drop on campus. But in the Aerospace Building, an array of space-critical research projects at...

Exterior shot of the Engineering Center

Technology, Cybersecurity & Policy Program moving to Department of Computer Science

June 16, 2020

This administrative change represents a more financially responsible approach to offering these degrees and creates opportunities for academic synergies such as access to computer science graduate courses in networking and systems.

Adrian Gutierrez headshot

Self-guided design project turns into an opportunity to save lives

June 16, 2020

Rising Engineering Plus senior Adrian Gutierrez successfully developed an automated bag valve mask, a device he hopes will help those with coronavirus in Mexico, his home for 18 years.

Gazendra headshot

New paper from mechanical researchers explores endoskeletal droplet vaporization

June 15, 2020

Researchers from the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering have found a new way of understanding the vaporization behavior of mixtures. The work is described in “Vaporizable Endoskeletal Droplets via Tunable Interfacial Melting Transitions,” a paper published in Science Advances this April.

A swarm of fireflies in the wild

A rare look at fireflies that blink in unison

June 15, 2020

National Geographic talks with CU Boulder students and faculty in the College of Engineering and Applied Science studying fireflies.

CU Boulder's campus from the air

CU is a global leader in patents for inventions, innovations

June 12, 2020

The University of Colorado jumped from No. 53 to No. 20 in a recent global ranking of the top 100 universities granted U.S. utility patents for an array of inventions and innovations that can have far-reaching and positive impacts on society.

Assistant Professor Marina Vance

Paper looks at exposure to airborne particulate matter in homes

June 12, 2020

Assistant Professor Marina Vance’s group has published a new research paper titled “Indoor particulate matter during HOMEChem: Concentrations, size distributions, and exposures” in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Tanya Ennis

BOLD Center statement on the longstanding racial crisis

June 11, 2020

Racism has reared its ugly head again in the United States. Police officers killed a number of Black people over the last few months, and these are the ones we know about. The nonsensical killing of Black men, women and children happens far too frequently and, within society, has become...

Nathan McNeill

Nathan McNeill to lead CMU-CU Engineering Partnership Program

June 10, 2020

McNeill, a mechanical engineering instructor in the program for the last eight years, will start the new position on July 1.

CU Engineering

A Message to our Community—Standing Against Racism

June 5, 2020

Dear GoldShirt community, Mary and I are writing today to acknowledge the immense pain, anger, despair and sadness that communities are feeling, especially Black communities and communities of color, in response to the violent killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. These are just some of the most...

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