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The 2024 Research & Innovation Seed Grants, awarded by CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Office (RIO) and the Office of the Provost, are funding 19 new projects for up to $50,000 each.

Numerous CU Boulder graduate level programs are among the top 25 of their kind in the United States, according to the U.S. News and World Report rankings released today. Highlights include: Environmental law has improved by eight points to No. 7, and atomic/molecular/optical physics, geology and physical chemistry continue to be ranked within the top 10.

The Distinguished Research Lectureship is among the highest honors bestowed by the faculty upon a CU Boulder colleague. Each year, the Research & Innovation Office (RIO) requests nominations and a faculty review panel recommends one or more faculty members as recipients. The deadline for nominations is Monday, May 20, 2024...

CU Boulder vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes Massimo Ruzzene met with congressional and federal leaders in Washington, D.C. this month to advocate for robust funding, ensure effective coordination on ongoing projects, and proactively explore opportunities for future collaborations.

CU Boulder defense expert and Center for National Security Initiatives Director Iain Boyd discusses why nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and space, motivated in part by the growing threat from swarms of drones.

Professor Scott Diddams (Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering) and his research team have introduced a new approach to generating microwave signals that leverages light and integrated photonics to enable new capabilities in communications, navigation and sensing.

CU Boulder researchers, venture capitalists, companies and entrepreneurs, federal lab researchers and local government leaders took part in a day of networking and discussions to inform impactful, commercially-relevant energy research at CU Boulder and introduce external partners to innovative university efforts.

After working eight years on a new way to attack some cancers using a synthetic small molecule called SVC112, Tin Tin Su of CU Boulder and Antonio Jimeno of the CU School of Medicine say acceleration-initiative funds will help speed a promising, developed-in-Colorado cancer therapy to patients.

Rachael Seidler, professor of applied physiology and kinesiology at the University of Florida, will deliver this year’s Rose M. Litman Memorial Lecture in Science on April 4 at CU Boulder: “Brain and Behavioral Changes with Human Spaceflight: Dysfunction and Adaptive Plasticity.”

Spencer Dansereau, a CU Boulder aerospace PhD student, aims to take carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and extract the carbon molecules to create 3D printed carbon fiber, which can be used for everything from bicycles to aerospace components—turning air pollution into a useable product.