March 2017

Students played significant roles in the February 19 launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying two CU Boulder payloads—one designed to help researchers better understand and perhaps outsmart dangerous infections like MRSA, another to help increase the proliferation of stem cells in space, a potential boon for biomedical therapy on Earth.

The flow and movement of individual solid particles—be it grains of lunar dust or the powdered contents of a medication—holds tremendous research value for scientists in a variety of fields. Now, a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) will allow University of Colorado Boulder researchers to simulate particle behavior to a greater degree than ever before.

Alumni, industry execs and other space buffs celebrated the state’s growing prominence in aerospace—from probing the Bennu asteroid to an array of industry partnerships—at the second annual CU Boulder Aerospace Summit.

The new MENV Environmental Entrepreneurship specialization is tailored to address the needs of aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders who are driven to work at the intersection of mission, profit, and environmental responsibility.