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LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate program welcomes 12 students

Sept. 28, 2023

°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼’s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate program welcomed its first cohort of 12 students to campus this fall.

Flow chart of next generation solar harvesting

°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ scientists awarded $2M NSF grant to teach computers to advance more affordable, efficient solar cells

Sept. 27, 2023

A team led by ChBE Professor Hendrik Heinz won a $2 million National Science Foundation award to develop reliable predictive models for hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites, which have the potential to usher in more efficient and affordable solar energy.

Mark Hernandez (middle) and his student team with an air quality monitor in a Denver classroom.

Can air purifiers help keep kids in school? New study seeks to find out

Sept. 27, 2023

Engineers at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ kicked off a new project this month that aims to investigate whether improving classroom air quality with air purifiers can help students miss fewer school days. Mark Hernandez is co-leading the project with researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus with a $2.2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

erika and mom

Hispanic Heritage Month: Prevailing with Grit and Community

Sept. 25, 2023

‘Welcome to the familia ’. It’s a greeting that welcomed Erika Antunez (IntDesEngr’24) when she first joined °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) as a first-year student. Familia takes on a whole new meaning for Antunez and her own family. “My parents worked so hard...

Cell phone with a lock symbol on the screen.

°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ earns $5 million award for 5G cellular security research

Sept. 22, 2023

A team of °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ researchers is leading a major military-oriented project for 5G wireless security. The National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program has awarded °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ $5 million for “GHOST: 5G Hidden Operations through...

Mike Moreau

Aerospace grad has leading role on OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission

Sept. 21, 2023

Mike Moreau (AeroEngr MS’97, PhD’01) is NASA’s Goddard’s sample recovery manager for the mission that has seen an Earth-built probe fly more than 600 million miles to the asteroid Bennu, scoop up a sample of rocks, dust, and regolith from the surface, and fly back home.

A student discusses his research poster with a Sandia Day attendee in front of a colorful space-themed mural

Sandia Day underscores how national lab partnerships benefit students, researchers and the public

Sept. 21, 2023

°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼’s second annual Sandia Day drew over 160 registered attendees to the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building for a packed agenda highlighting the strong partnership between the university and Sandia National Laboratories and potential future avenues for collaborative, globally impactful research.

Two underground robots in a cave.

°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ offers new graduate program in robotics

Sept. 20, 2023

The °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ has started a graduate engineering program in robotics to fill a growing need in an in-demand field. The CU Regents have approved new Master of Science and PhD degree options in robotics that will provide students a flexible education that merges hardware and software engineering,...

Earthquake-damaged buildings

What Libya’s floods, Morocco’s earthquake can teach us about resilient infrastructure

Sept. 20, 2023

Shideh Dashti, an associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼, shared her thoughts on what engineers can learn from these events and how countries can build resilient cities better prepared for a future likely to see more frequent and intense natural disasters.

Foundations of homes and tress burned by the Marshall Fires.

Wildfire workshop highlights °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ research expertise, leadership

Sept. 19, 2023

Christine Wiedinmyer, CIRES associate director of science and a faculty member in Rady Mechanical Engineering, and Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, associate dean for faculty affairs in CU Engineering, hosted the event to share research and expertise from a variety of disciplines at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼.

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