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November 2018 - Amanda Makowiecki
Amanda grew up in the land of ‘Live free or die’ where she could be... Read more
ME Department Chair and other CU faculty advocate for open access
Open access (OA) is a way of publishing your research that enables it to be... Read more
CU Boulder alumni continues work in biomedical imaging at Oxford
Alec Thomas is hoping the research he conducted as a PhD student at CU Boulder... Read more
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Undergraduate Research Spotlight
Research Spotlight - Curtis Huggins
During the summer of my sophomore year my dad and I built a 20’x30’x18’ active solar greenhouse which circulates air between two plenums connected by 900 ft of perforated corrugated pipe within a 3000 cubic foot soil heatsink below the greenhouse. The system captures daytime heat and moisture, stores it...
Graduate Research Spotlight
Rene Nsanzineza - Air Quality
Rene Nsanzineza is a 5th year PhD candidate in Professor Jana Milford’s group. This research group specializes in regional and local air quality modeling with focus on the environmental impacts of energy systems. Rene’s research focuses on the air quality implications of future scenarios for oil and natural gas production...