Spotlight
Can music heal? This artist and researcher wants to find out
Electronic musician, flutist and researcher Grace Leslie believes that music touches something deep in the human brain—a hardwired need, perhaps, to sit around a fire or in a concert arena and feel connected to the people around us. Humans have been making music for longer than we’ve lived in cities and grown crops. “In most cultures, it’s used to draw people together,” says Leslie.
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Bits and Threads: Weaving Cultural Worlds and Computing in Community-Based Settings
A Denver Public Library makerspace collaborates with Laura Devendorf's Unstable Design Lab and Ricarose Roque to offer the public textile-focused maker activities. Read more
Interdisciplinary team receives $1.8 million for audacious robot-building project
Robots help build cars, fly planes, fight wars and provide healthcare; they play a role in countless industries, but for the most part, they don't work in chemistry labs. A team of CU Boulder scientists plans to change that. Read more
How this celebrity tattoo artist created a tattoo you can turn on and off at will
Bang Bang—who has inked the likes of Rihanna and LeBron—teamed up with research scientists Carson Bruns and Jesse Butterfield to develop a new kind of light-sensitive ink. Read more
ATLAS welcomes Professor Sheng-Fen “Nik” Chien as visiting scientist and scholar
ATLAS welcomes Professor Sheng-Fen “Nik” Chien, who joins us as a visiting scientist and scholar... Read more
ATLAS welcomes Anthony Pinter—a data scientist whose specialty is love
The ATLAS Institute is delighted to welcome Anthony Pinter to the CU Boulder faculty this... Read more
Visual artist and longtime ATLAS faculty member, Joel Swanson, earns tenure
Beginning this year, ATLAS faculty member Joel Swanson is promoted to the rank of associate... Read more
