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Celebrate International Women's Day with alumni, students, faculty, and prospective students as we come together to discuss ways to support each other, make meaningful connections, and hear from a panel of outstanding CU Engineering alumnae leaders. March 8, 6 to 8 PM, held in the Rustandy building, ECCS 201.

Assistant Professor of computer science Orit Peleg has just received $900,000 over the next five years to learn how fireflies in a swarm synchronize their lighting displays. She's using LEDs, VR and big tents in the wilderness to signal to the fireflies... and they're signaling back.

Majid Zamani is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. He leads the Hybrid Control Systems Lab and helps protect human life through safer autonomous systems.

Shivendra Agrawal, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science, and his colleagues developed a walking stick for blind or visually impaired people with the help of artificial intelligence.

Leysia Palen, professor in the Department of Computer Science and the founding chair of the Department of Information Science (2015-19), has been recognized as a distinguished professor, the highest recognition given by the University of Colorado system. Palen reflects on her path, the future and the power of collaboration.

Nate Collins (Math'23) is a CS minor student who was recently recognized by the Computing Research Association (CRA) for his research on type 1 diabetes as an undergraduate.

Professors Nikolaus Correll, Bradley Hayes, Christoffer Heckman and Alessandro Roncone have received an award for their new textbook "Introduction to Autonomous Robots” that is being published this month by MIT Press. The book is also available on GitHub, accessible via a Creative Commons 4.0 license.

Nicholas LaBerge, a CS PhD student, discusses findings from "Subfield Prestige and Gender Inequality Among U.S. Computing Faculty," in a video for a contributed article in the December 2022 Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM).

This semester, entrepreneurial product development combined computer science with the requests of an interdisciplinary client, associate professor Kevin Rich from the Department of Theatre & Dance, to make theater more sustainable.

The Research and Innovation for Climate Change Open House features hands-on projects and displays from faculty and students across engineering, arts and sciences, and Leeds. This free event is open to campus and no registration is required.