Flower pots 3D printed from spent coffee grounds

3D printing with coffee: Turning used grounds into caffeinated creations

Sept. 8, 2023

Utility Research Lab director Michael Rivera uses surprising materials to fabricate useful objects.

Fingertip haptics prototype

ATLAS PhD Student Purnendu Presents at World Haptics Conference

Sept. 7, 2023

Purnendu presented research on wearable electrohydraulic fingertip interfaces at the IEEE World Haptics Conference in Delft, Netherlands.

Touch sensing 3D printed node close up

Sandra Bae, ATLAS PhD Student, Awarded at VIS 2023

Aug. 30, 2023

Sandra Bae, PhD student and member of the Utility Research Lab and ACME Lab at ATLAS, has been honored with a Best Paper Honorable Mention at VIS 2023 for her research on network physicalizations. Billed as “the premier forum for advances in theory, methods and applications of visualization and visual...

Bruns in HYPRSKN lab

Marketplace: A Nanoengineer Teamed Up with Rihanna’s Tattoo Artist to Make Smarter Ink

Aug. 22, 2023

Marketplace has featured Carson Bruns in a piece on his smart tattoos work.

Pinter with i3 team

Anthony Pinter Named i3 Outstanding Mentor

Aug. 1, 2023

Congratulations to ATLAS teaching assistant professor Anthony Pinter , who was recently honored with the i3 Outstanding Mentor Award for the 2022-2023 cohort. The iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) is an undergraduate research and leadership program that prepares students from underrepresented backgrounds for graduate study and careers in the information sciences...

Ignatius reviews his Cartoonimator research

SMART Students Join ATLAS for Summer Research Projects

July 27, 2023

CU Boulder offers 10-week summer research internships for rising juniors and seniors through the Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training (SMART) program . The program aims to improve access to STEM research for students from groups underrepresented in science, math and engineering, including racial/ethnic minorities, first-generation college students, Pell grant...

Smart tattoo sample

Bruns Featured in CNN Piece on Smart Tattoos for Health Care

July 26, 2023

ATLAS assistant professor and director of the Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials, Carson Bruns, is featured in a CNN piece for his research on smart tattoos for biomedical applications.

Karan Dikshit in the research lab

CU Boulder Adhesive Research Could Boost Medicine, Electronics, and the Environment

July 13, 2023

Karan Dikshit (PhDMatSci’22) is the first author on a paper on new adhesive materials that allow for easy sticking and unsticking, and could eventually contribute to sustainability global efforts.

Kaleidoscopic graphic

The Sound of Silence

July 10, 2023

Grace Leslie, director of the ATLAS Institute's Brain Music Lab, is focused on the nexus between music, technology and neuroscience. She discusses how she and her students collaborate on research around non-verbal communication and empathy through the medium of music and art.

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16 Members of the ATLAS Community Present Groundbreaking Research on Human-Computer Interaction at ACM DIS 2023

July 5, 2023

ATLAS is well-represented at this year’s ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2023 conference convening at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from July 10-14, 2023. This year’s theme is resilience . "Resilience is at once about flexibility, durability, and strength as well as a sense of mutuality and hope where solidaristic...

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