Mallinda

Mallinda awarded $750K grant for reusable carbon-fiber composite

Oct. 12, 2016

What’s one way to cut a car’s weight by 50 percent and improve fuel efficiency by up to 40 percent? Make it out of carbon fiber instead of steel. What if everyone had access to such a vehicle? Chris Kaffer, co-founder and CEO of Denver startup Mallinda , believes his...

Boulder

Turning brewery wastewater into battery power

Oct. 7, 2016

CU Boulder engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells. This unique pairing of breweries and batteries could set up a win-win opportunity by reducing expensive wastewater treatment costs for beer...

Danny Sekich Canvas Technology

Daily Camera: Boulder company developing self-driving vehicles for factories

Oct. 3, 2016

Mechanical Engineer Danny Sekich works on making custom parts on a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine at Canvas Technology in Boulder on Monday. Paul (Paul Aiken / Courtesy Photo) A Boulder business, built on research from the University of Colorado, is developing technology to put self-driving vehicles not on America's...

International Space Station

BioServe Space Technologies: CU Boulder's presence on the International Space Station

Sept. 28, 2016

International Space Station If you gaze at the night sky from Earth in just the right place, you will see the International Space Station (ISS), a bright speck of light hurtling through space at 5 miles per second as it orbits 220 miles above the planet. And if you were...

Physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn

$24 million NSF grant to establish imaging science center at CU Boulder

Sept. 26, 2016

Physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) pose next to one of the laser apparatuses in their lab at the University of Colorado Boulder campus. The Kapteyn-Murnane group at JILA study optical and X-ray science using new tabletop light sources. They develop...

CU Boulder

New partnership with DigitalGlobe advances research innovation locally, worldwide

Sept. 19, 2016

CU Boulder and DigitalGlobe Inc. this week announced a partnership to provide access to DigitalGlobe’s industry-leading high-resolution satellite imagery, data and analytics tools to the university’s Earth Lab initiative in order to advance earth and space science research. DigitalGlobe operates the most sophisticated commercial imaging satellite constellation in orbit, which...

Grandview Footpring

CU seeks city support on development of new hotel-conference center in heart of Boulder

Sept. 1, 2016

New venue would give CU, city world-class facility for academic, research conferences and meetings The city manager and staff will ask the Boulder City Council next week to consider a collaborative plan with the university to develop a new hotel and conference center in the heart of the city. The...

LASP

CU Boulder to receive two governor’s awards for high-impact research

Aug. 31, 2016

For its involvement in space weather research, which can have many and varied impacts on technological systems, LASP will receive one of this year's governor's awards for high-impact research. (Image: NASA) Among the state’s four winners of this year’s Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research are the Laboratory for Atmospheric and...

space minor spacesuit

CU Boulder's newest minor - in space - has lift off

Aug. 30, 2016

Capitalizing on its reputation as a top public university in space research, the University of Colorado Boulder is launching a brand new Space Minor program for undergraduate students. The program, a component of CU Boulder’s Grand Challenge: Our Space. Our Future. , will allow undergraduate students, regardless of major, to...

Lockheed Martin Chief Technology Officer Keoki Jackson met with several students working on Lockheed Martin-supported research projects. From left to right: Keoki Jackson, Andrew Wylde, Lt. Col. Diana Loucks, Caitlyn Cooke and Paige Anderson Arthur.

New partnership with Lockheed Martin forges research, career opportunities for students

Aug. 25, 2016

Paige Anderson Arthur got hooked on science fiction and the prospect of space travel when she started watching Star Trek at age 13. Now, the Denver native is immersed in aerospace engineering at CU Boulder, which is why she joined in the celebration Thursday as a new $3 million partnership...

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