Rain fall sensors in Africa

Pair of CU Boulder PhD students publish research to address growing drought issues in Africa

July 28, 2022

CU Boulder PhD candidates Katie Fankhauser and Denis Muthike are lead authors of new research on our ability to forecast, mitigate and quickly respond to increasingly intense drought conditions in Africa due to climate change.

CU Boulder campus seen from the air

Call for Nominations: Awards for Outstanding Postdocs & Faculty Mentors

July 27, 2022

To highlight the contributions of postdocs and postdoc mentors, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) will be recognizing Outstanding Postdocs and Outstanding Mentors during National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW), September 19-23.

A student working in the COSINC lab

COSINC to host Material 3D-Nanofabrication and Characterization Hands-on Workshop

July 21, 2022

The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) facility will host a day-long workshop and training session on Material 3D-Nanofabrication and Characterization from 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Aug. 9 on CU Boulder’s Campus in the Gallogly Discovery Learning Center.

Bees on a honey comb.

CU Boulder researchers explore the engineering of bee honeycombs

July 19, 2022

Francisco López Jiménez is taking on an unusual research subject for an assistant professor in aerospace -- honeycombs. A faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, López Jiménez is buzzing with a new $497,000 National Science Foundation grant...

CU Boulder campus seen from the air

AB Nexus seeks interdisciplinary proposals for 2022 grant program

July 7, 2022

AB Nexus has announced its Fall 2022 Research Collaboration Grant Program, which seeks proposals from interdisciplinary teams that expand and strengthen areas of research collaboration between the CU Anschutz and CU Boulder campuses.

Majid Zamani

CU Boulder part of $5.8M grant to improve cyber-physical transportation systems

June 29, 2022

Researchers at CU Boulder are part of a new $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help build the intelligent transportation systems of the future.

Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn in their lab on campus.

Exploring Colorado’s quantum revolution

June 28, 2022

A holistic discussion of quantum research on CU Boulder's campus and across the state.

Mountain range

College of engineering celebrates 6 NSF CAREER award winners in 2022

June 26, 2022

Six faculty members within the College of Engineering and Applied Science received CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation in 2022.

Shideh Dashti

Video: Dashti on pioneering the resilient infrastructure of the future

June 26, 2022

Shideh Dashti is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at CU Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science. Her research is focused on geotechnical engineering, centrifuge modeling, and designing resilient infrastructure in the wake of earthquakes and climate-related natural disasters.

Wil Srubar

Cities of the future may be built with algae-grown limestone

June 23, 2022

Global cement production accounts for 7% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in large part through the burning of quarried limestone. Now, a CU Boulder-led research team has figured out a way to make cement production carbon neutral—and even carbon negative—by pulling carbon dioxide out of the air with the help of microalgae.

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