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Celebrating our AAPI community

May 3, 2024

This month we highlight members of our community who identify as Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and who are making contributions to our college and society as researchers, instructors, student leaders and alumni.

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Magnus Boee: Balancing success in athletics and engineering

April 26, 2024

Magnus Boee, a graduate student in civil engineering, excelled in Nordic skiing for the Colorado Buffalos. As a Division 1 athlete, he completed both a BS and MS (expected spring 2024) in civil engineering while training and competing. Boee represented South Korea in Nordic skiing at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and is now aiming for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.

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CU Engineering faculty land prestigious multidisciplinary Department of Defense projects

April 18, 2024

Three faculty members from the CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science are conducting projects awarded through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program.

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Zoya Popovic elected to the National Academy of Inventors

April 8, 2024

Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic is among 162 inventors named 2023 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Election as a fellow in the academy is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.

A laser system for detecting methane gas in the air sits on top of a tower at a oil and gas facility in Colorado. (Credit: Casey Cass/CU Boulder)

A real-life Eye of Sauron? New project to spot possible chemical threats in the air

April 2, 2024

Engineers at CU Boulder are developing an “all-seeing eye” based on laser technology that could one day detect harmful particles in the air around cities or in factories.

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Joints that could heal themselves? Researchers could get there in five years

March 26, 2024

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) granted $39 million to a CU Boulder-led team to pioneer a single-shot joint treatment that would stop cartilage and bone from erosion and promote regrowth.

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Researchers take major step toward developing next-generation solar cells

March 20, 2024

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Energy, CU Boulder's Michael McGehee and his international collaborators unveiled an innovative method to manufacture new solar cells, known as perovskite cells, an achievement critical for the commercialization of what many consider the next generation of solar technology.

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Colorado community college students now have more options to earn a CU Boulder engineering degree

Feb. 29, 2024

CU Boulder will soon offer six transfer pathways, allowing Colorado's community college students to earn a degree aligned with their academic and career interests.

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Engineers unveil new patch to help people control robotic exoskeletons

Jan. 31, 2024

In a new study, engineers from the United States and Korea — including Jianliang Xiao of Rady Mechanical Engineering — have developed a wearable, stretchy patch that could help to bridge the divide between people and machines, with benefits for the health of humans around the world.

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CU Boulder researcher lands NASA grant to advance hypersonics modeling

Jan. 18, 2024

Robyn Macdonald Robyn Macdonald is pushing the limits of hypersonic research with a new NASA grant. Macdonald, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been awarded a $600,000 Early Career award from NASA to improve computational...

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