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Gijs de Boer—a senior research scientist in CIRES and the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory—has been named director of national laboratory partnerships, a newly established, part-time role that will focus on expanding CU Boulder’s research collaborations with national laboratories.

To support CU Boulder’s advocacy in Washington, D.C., the university’s Federal Relations team is soliciting campus input to help identify the university’s priorities for congressionally directed and programmatic funding for federal Fiscal Year 2024. Your participation in the process will aid in developing the annual fiscal and policy requests that...

Highlights from CU Boulder’s research, scholarship and creative work in 2021-22 paint a compelling picture of our progress towards our strategic imperatives. CU Boulder again attracted record levels of research funding this year—$658 million in gifts and awards, including $474 million from federal agencies.

After an at-times emotional first day of the summit Friday, in which panelists from around the globe made the undeniable case that climate change is a humanitarian crisis, speakers on Day 2 focused on accountability, called for action and suggested that a human rights framing is precisely what’s needed to spark action.

Jonathan Koehn, chief sustainability and resilience officer for the city of Boulder and instructor in CU Boulder’s Masters of the Environment program, moderated a panel of local leaders who discussed how the impacts of climate change are being felt and addressed locally and regionally.

According to a new report from the Leeds School of Business, commercialization activities led by Venture Partners at CU Boulder had an economic impact of $8 billion nationally and $5.2 billion in the state of Colorado over the last five years—a four-fold increase in impact since 2019.

The intercampus program stimulates innovative research collaborations and progress toward solving some of our world’s most pressing health problems. After receiving funding from the AB Nexus grant program, awarded teams have attracted $13 million in outside funding and published more than 20 peer-reviewed research studies.

CIRES/CU Boulder and NOAA researchers contributed to two of the four awarded projects—one for rapid-response science in service to communities after the Marshall Fire, and another for a breakthrough space weather model that serves several economic sectors with better impact forecasts.

United Nations Human Rights, CU Boulder and the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance are co-hosting a three day global climate summit exploring solutions that every sector of society—government, business, education and individuals—can adopt and act upon.

The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2023 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which includes 17 faculty members from departments and research institutes spanning the campus.