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Daily Camera—CU Boulder hosted the 52nd annual American Solar Energy Society national solar conference, including an electric vehicle show and workshop with speakers discussing energy-efficient technology.

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship—How are you really? This phrase is core to the Speaking Grey mission, started by changemaker and CU alum Aditi Joshi. Speaking Grey is a community-based non-profit that creates awareness, educates and supports mental health and emotional well-being.

Venture Partners at CU Boulder—The Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator at Venture Partners has officially launched its first Embark Entrepreneurs in Residence cohort. Embark aims to connect business minds outside the university with breakthrough inventions emerging from CU Boulder's research labs to bring them to market and unleash the full impact of CU Boulder's research into the world.

Innosphere Ventures—CU Boulder is one of the partner universities in the Colorado-Wyoming Engine proposal, a finalist in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines competition. The proposal aims to address climate solutions and community resiliency, competing for up to $160 million in funding over the next ten years.

CU Boulder Today—Imagine an iPad that’s more than just an iPad—with a surface that can morph and deform, allowing you to draw 3D designs, create haiku that jump out from the screen and even hold your partner’s hand from an ocean away.

Cyberguy—CU Boulder startup Point Designs is working to help the healthcare industry through cutting-edge technology in the form of finger prosthetics. The team at Point Designs is combining clinical care with innovative additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, to give hope to people who have received medical denials in the past when it comes to missing fingers or hands.

Denver Post—Meati Foods, a Boulder-based producer of plant-based meat alternatives and CU Boulder spinout, is expanding its commercial reach by selling to Whole Foods Markets across the country.

9NEWS—No Social Media November is a 1-month detox and educational program that encourages young people to learn about social media's impact on our mental health and lives. NoSo November, founded by Madeline Freeman (Business '23), competed twice in the New Venture Challenge (NVC) Female Founders Special Competitions.

College of Engineering and Applied Science—Srubar's lab conducts major research into biomimetic and living materials that have the potential to drastically reduce environmental pollution caused by construction activities around the globe.

College of Engineering and Applied Science—Svenja Knappe and her colleagues have developed a helmet that contains 128 of these sensors and is customizable for different sizes of the human head. Knappe founded the Boulder-based company FieldLine and has begun to bring these sensors to market. In the not-so-distant future, they could aid in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of neurological conditions like epilepsy, autism and traumatic brain injuries.