Pluto

Chasing New Horizons

Alan Stern (PhD Astro’89) led NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. It was quite the journey.

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Digital Frontier

June 1, 2018

CU Boulder pioneers a MOOC-based graduate degree in electrical engineering.

Alena Grabowski

Blade Runners

June 1, 2018

CU’s Alena Grabowski is helping a new generation of amputee athletes reimagine what’s possible.

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Talking About Revolutions

March 1, 2018

Gregory Crichlow has transformed a former drug den into a boutique bike shop that also sells artisanal bean-to-bar chocolate.

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@Last: How Google Came to Boulder

March 1, 2018

It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when there was no Google in Boulder.

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Life After Death on the Internet

March 1, 2018

As our lives go digital, Jed Brubaker is studying what happens to all that data after we die.

Avery Bang

The Bridge

March 1, 2018

Avery Bang knows a simple footbridge can change lives.

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Anyone Out There?

March 1, 2018

Students in “Pathway to Space,” the gateway course for CU Boulder’s space minor, released 170 balloons in January.

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Where'd My 14er Go?

Dec. 1, 2017

A new way of measuring elevation in the U.S. will yield the most accurate results yet — but might cost Colorado a couple 14ers.

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Making Guns Safer

Dec. 1, 2017

Margot Hirsch believes there’s a way to minimize violence without wading deep into the fraught debate about legislative gun control.

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