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Scientists from across CU Boulder attended the 2023 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco to share their research about the search for life on Mars, small satellites viewing distant planets, how beavers transform landscapes, the fate of Antarctic ice sheets and more.

The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2024 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which includes 16 faculty members from departments and research institutes across the campus. The diversity of disciplines included embodies the breadth of excellence represented in CU Boulder’s research, scholarship and creative work.

The High School New Venture Challenge (HSNVC) at CU Boulder and Business Bound at CU Denver connect high school students with their communities and cultivate entrepreneurial mindsets that span beyond basic business finance, fostering young innovators across Colorado.

CU Boulder and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have signed a Master Research Agreement, broadening a partnership between the two institutions and opening new collaboration pathways to address critical national security research and workforce needs.

A spacecraft the size of a cereal box has collected precise measurements of the atmospheres of large and puffy planets called “hot Jupiters.” The findings, led by a team from CU Boulder, could help reveal how the atmospheres around these and a host of other worlds are escaping into space.

In November, CU Boulder’s Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL) hosted its first-ever virtual hackathon. Working in teams, 45 participants from around the world used environmental data science and AI to create innovative solutions, such as an app to track water quality by neighborhood.

The Colorado State Legislature passed a bill directing the Natural Hazards Center to assess current emergency alert practices. The resulting report identified several ways the state can address gaps in funding, resources and practice to provide more inclusive alerts for all Coloradoans.

“The current methods of trajectory design for missions that go beyond low Earth orbit to the Moon are very complicated and not intuitive. I want to change that,” said Dezell Turner, an aerospace PhD student aiming to streamline orbital design with an interactive, augmented reality tool.

The George Ellery Hale Fellowships, created by CU Boulder in partnership with NSF’s National Solar Observatory, are designed to give students the freedom to explore a mix of solar and space physics research paths with multiple mentors before deciding on a thesis project.

As far apart as Boulder and Grand Junction are, they’re brought together by a commitment to water conservation. Rooted in this shared commitment is Crossing the Divide: a program that fosters student collaboration across CU Boulder and Grand Junction’s Colorado Mesa University.