2022 CU SPUR Projects

Project Description In this project, you will learn to synthesize targeted microbubbles. You will learn to synthesize the microbubbles, make a narrow size distribution with centrifugation, and then do chemical conjugation of a peptide targeting ligand to the microbubble surface. You will learn how to observe the microbubbles under the...

Project Description Lightning, an energetic phenomena in our atmosphere, has far reaching effects in space. When lightning strikes, it releases an electromagnetic (EM) pulse that injects energy into the Earth’s magnetosphere. Many spacecraft like the Van Allen Probes measure these EM waves, called lightning generated whistlers (LGWs) due to the...

Project Description Western honey bee behavior and communication has been a subject of study for hundreds of years, yet much remains unknown about how they coordinate with each other to succeed as a colony without a central leader. In the Peleg lab, we investigate how they accomplish tasks such as...

Project Description The goal of this project is to discover security metrics that can be incorporated into a processor simulator to assign the concept of a security level to a particular microarchitectural design. A major component of the project would involve investigating the security metrics that would be adequate to...

Project Description The Vance Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder specializes in indoor and outdoor air quality investigations, with a special focus on aerosols or particulate matter (PM). PM can range from a few nanometers to micrometers in size and can be generated from a variety of sources, from...

Project Description Terrestrial aircraft and helicopter pilots often experience large sustained vehicle motions, but they also must reliably perceive potentially very small motions. For example, when hovering a helicopter they must perceived slight translations left/right or forward/backward. Here, we aim to quantify human perceptual thresholds (i.e., how small of a...

Project Description Software Defined Radios are an ever increasing popular topic. The advent of low cost USB radio dongles such as the USRP and BladeRF as well as tools such as GNU radio have allowed for radio development to move into the software domain. GPS is a satellite-based navigation system...

Project Description This project is to explore and exploit the satellite navigation / position engine / GPS within Android. Ideally making end result more more robust with higher integrity. The Android platform provides the majority of GPS/GNSS receivers across the world. Its integration within Android is interesting and many many...

Project Description The Boulder Cryogenic Quantum Testbed (BCQT) is a research facility for developing and openly disseminating standard protocols to reproducibly measure the quality factor and performance characteristics of superconducting microwave resonators used in quantum computing circuits.The BCQT serves as a resource to academic and industry quantum research groups that...

Project Description Imagine designing living organisms with the ability to sense and respond to different chemicals present in the built environment. One could build microorganisms that sense TNT in landmines and identify their locations; or have houseplants that can identify hazardous levels of pollutants. My research group is developing fundamentally...