Christopher Gaines holds clay-colored square with a tactile representation of a sun petroglyph

Touching the Sun with Solar Stones

Aug. 27, 2024

ATLAS undergraduate students partnered with NASA's PUNCH mission and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind to make tactile representations of ancient petroglyphs.

Laura Devendorf stands smiling in the Unstable Design Lab while holding a colorful woven form and showing it to guests

Devendorf bridges engineering and craft communities with new initiative

Aug. 13, 2024

The Unstable Design Lab director has embarked on the first phase of a years-long project to bring together engineering and craft communities to advance textile research across a range of scientific disciplines.

Ruhan Yang sits behind a table showing off paper circuits research at the conference

Colorado-based Computer Graphics Professionals Make Their Mark at SIGGRAPH 2024

Aug. 2, 2024

ATLAS community members, including professor Ellen Do and PhD student Ruhan Yang, presented at this year's conference in Denver.

Ruhan stands in the ACME Lab holding examples of her paper robots

ATLAS PhD student deploys papercraft to make engineering tangible and fun

July 30, 2024

ATLAS PhD student Ruhan Yang blends papercraft and circuit design to make engineering more tangible, accessible and fun for tinkerers of all ages.

Suibi Che-Chuan Weng receives his award certificate

Public-private partnership drives attention for ATLAS research in augmented and mixed reality

July 18, 2024

ACME Lab members built relationships with industry players through the Pervasive Personalized Intelligence (PPI) Center by collaborating on solutions to challenges in building Internet of Things systems. Three ATLAS PhD students took home awards from the PPI Center's Spring 2024 Advisory Board Meeting.

Demonstration of biofibers spinning machine extruding fiber from gelatin substrate

How fibers spun from gelatin could help reduce textile waste

July 8, 2024

NPR interviews Utility Research Lab director, Michael Rivera, on biofibers research for use in sustainable textiles.

examples of multi-color biofibers

Wear it, then recycle: ATLAS Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin

June 17, 2024

In a new study, a team of ATLAS engineers and designers developed a DIY machine that spins textile fibers made of materials like sustainably sourced gelatin. The group’s “biofibers” feel a bit like flax fiber and dissolve in hot water in minutes to an hour.

Community members stand around a table playing with Collaborator together at EXPO 2024 in the Audio Frequency Lab

ATLAS Team Scores at SynthUX Hackathon

June 3, 2024

A team of students in the Audio Frequency Lab designed and built the Collaborator multi-player synthesizer, taking home top honors at this year's Synthux International Synth Design Hackathon.

Student tests Copilot accessibility features

Could AI be the next college teaching assistant? Some Colorado professors believe so

May 16, 2024

Some innovative classrooms, including the Generative AI class at ATLAS, are experimenting with ways to apply new AI tools in learning.

ATLAS logo + 2024 student award winners

2024 ATLAS Student Award Winners Announced

May 6, 2024

College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduating Student Awards Congratulations to the Spring 2024 Graduating Student Award winners for the College of Engineering and Applied Science! We’re excited to see six ATLAS students among the recipients this year. View the complete list of winners on the College of Engineering &...

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