CU Engineering Weekly Digest - Sept. 30, 2023

Graduating undergraduate student award nominations are now being accepted for students graduating with their bachelor’s degree in December 2023! The nomination form is open through Oct. 13 for eight award categories.

The complete set of criteria associated with each award must be fully addressed by nominators. A good sample nomination is available for reference. Student winners will be notified by early November and honored at the December Engineering Graduation Ceremony.

Starting at noon Friday, Oct. 6, through 8 a.m. Monday, Oct. 9, University Information Services (UIS) will move physical equipment to a new, modern facility on the Anschutz Medical Campus. If needed, a contingency date has been planned for Nov. 10–13.

Services that will be unavailable during the outage include MyCUInfo, Buff Portal, Campus Solutions, eRA by InfoEd, FIN and HCM. Read a list of unaffected services and services that will be available but potentially affected by the outage.

Thursday, Oct. 12. 5:30 p.m., ECCS 201
Cynthia Finelli, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and education and director of Engineering Education Research at University of Michigan, will present research about the state of undergraduate ethics instruction and its long-term impact, propose a new approach to ethics instruction, and offer two course-based approaches to better educate ethical engineers.

 » Scott Diddams of electrical, computer and energy engineering received a $1 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation, which will support a three-year study to explore the feasibility of creating a frequency comb detector for a planetwide astronomical infrared telescope.

• CU Boulder scientists awarded $2M NSF grant to teach computers to advance more affordable, efficient solar cells
• Can air purifiers help keep kids in school? New study seeks to find out
• Hispanic Heritage Month: Prevailing with Grit and Community
• Sandia Day underscores how national lab partnerships benefit students, researchers and the public
• Wildfire workshop highlights CU Boulder research expertise, leadership

More College Stories

• CU Boulder first-generation students find support through university programs (Daily Camera)
• Rebuilding after wildfire: Help is scarcest for those who need it most (Christian Science Monitor)
• Clean air progress is being reversed by wildfire smoke, study says (KUNC Radio)

• CRISPR-based gene editing gets smaller, better "scissors"
• A battery built for satellites brings grid-scale storage down to Earth
• AI Could Help Find Life On Mars With 90% Accuracy, Scientists Say
• US Government Shutdown Likely to Spare Some Infrastructure Programs
• Researchers create a lightweight, high-strength material using two unlikely ingredients: DNA and glass

• Join University Libraries for Banned Books Week Oct. 1–7
• Students and Administrators Say Colleges Should Embrace Racial Justice. They Don’t Always Agree on How.
• Grade Gaps Reflect Course Problems, Not Students’ Shortcomings
• Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce
• What qualities do college leaders need to lead major institutional restructuring?