News & Events

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) announces the launch of the New Frontiers Grant Program, a novel initiative specifically designed to foster groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research projects with the potential for high impact. A Feb. 7 Virtual Townhall Kickoff will be the first of multiple opportunities for researchers to learn more and explore partnerships in advance of developing proposals.

In 2011, Jeffrey Thayer (Aerospace Engineering) invented LiteWave's core technology—a new type of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) that can ‘see’ objects in shallow water from above the water’s surface—alongside two CU Boulder graduate students. The company has now been acquired by Arcfield.

CU Boulder today announced seven winners of the 2023-2024 translational quantum research seed grants, incentivizing quantum science and technology innovations launched from the lab to accelerate them along the development path to new programs and businesses.

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) announces its Spring Faculty Development and Workshop calendar for 2024​. Faculty can explore the full range of offerings for this semester, including What Makes Compelling Requests to Congress, Funding Strategy Office Hours, an AB Nexus Grant Info Session and the featured opportunities highlighted in this article.

Scientists and engineers at CU Boulder will soon take part in an effort to collect stardust—the tiny bits of matter that flow through the Milky Way Galaxy and were once the initial building blocks of our solar system. The pursuit is part of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission.

Assistant Professor Robyn Macdonald (Aerospace Engineering) has been awarded a $600K NASA Early Career award to improve computational modeling of turbulence at hypersonic speeds, using supercomputers such as CU Boulder’s Blanca Condo Cluster and NASA’s Pleiades Supercomputer.

A panel of artificial intelligence researchers—including Associate Professor Casey Fiesler (College of Media, Communication and Information)—look ahead to 2024 and describe the issues that AI developers, regulators and everyday people are likely to face, offering their hopes and recommendations.

To support CU Boulder’s advocacy in Washington, D.C., the university’s Federal Relations team is soliciting campus input to help identify the university’s priorities for congressionally directed and programmatic funding for federal Fiscal Year 2025.

A recent CIRES-led study reveals that when community college students head home after an immersive nine-week research program on the CU Boulder campus, they don’t just take a new set of skills with them—they leave with more confidence in their ability to do science and a greater sense of belonging.

Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Dean of the Institutes Massimo Ruzzene named Alexa Van Dalsem director of the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) effective Jan. 1.