Published: May 27, 2014

On May 22, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Director Charles Elachi and his senior management team met with University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano and several other campus administrators to sign a memorandum of understanding to continue and broaden a rich tradition of collaboration on space and Earth-science efforts going back nearly 50 years. Located in Pasadena, Calif., JPL is a federally funded research and development facility managed by the California Institute of Technology for NASA.

 

CU-Boulder began its collaboration with JPL in the 1960s, and has been involved in roughly 40 sponsored research projects with JPL worth nearly $15 million between 2011 and 2013. The latest efforts include solar system exploration, star and galaxy formation, advanced telescope optics, science outreach and climate change, including sea-level rise, shrinking glaciers and anthropogenic changes in atmospheric gases.

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