Department Highlights

2020

December

• Dec. 26: Japan Today: Mechanical forces in a beating heart affect its cells' DNA, with implications for development and disease
• Dec. 24: Interesting Engineering: Researchers replicate exoplanet climates in lab to help look for life
• Dec. 23: Phys.org: Researchers replicate the climates of exoplanets to help find extraterrestrial life
• Dec. 22: Medical Xpress: Mechanical forces in a beating heart affect its cells' DNA, with implications for development and disease
• Dec. 21: The Conversation: Mechanical forces in a beating heart affect its cells’ DNA, with implications for development and disease
• Dec. 16: NIH Director's Blog: Capturing the Extracellular Matrix in 3D Color
• Dec. 16: Mirage News: Mechanical forces guide development of cells, could inspire advances in artificial tissue engineering
• Dec. 15: NewScientists: Scientists invent ways for pigs to breathe with oxygen microbubbles
• Dec. 13: Popular Mechanics: Solid-state batteries are here and they're going to change how we live
• Dec 9: CNBC: Shares of Ford- and BMW-backed battery supplier Solid Power surge in Nasdaq debut
• Dec. 8: Solid Power, an industry-leading developer of all-solid-state battery cells for electric vehicles, goes public
• Dec. 3: U.S. News & World Report: Pandemic data suggests cars spew more ammonia than suspected
• Dec. 2: Denver7: Microbubbles could help COVID-19 patients and others with ARDS

November

• Nov. 16: Daily Camera: Front Range Community College to offer new engineering degree that will enable students to transfer to the University of Colorado Boulder
• Nov. 15: KPAX: Music directors following COVID-19 transmission study suggestions
• Nov. 10: TIME: unspun named one of the 100 best inventions of 2021
• Nov. 10: Washington Post: Inside the Pentagon's $82 million Super Bowl of robots
• Nov. 9: Aspero Medical awarded $1M grant from the National Science Foundation
• Nov. 8: Puget Sound Business Journal: LeoStella Chief Technology Officer and ME alumnus says BlackSky IPO provides 'anchor' as company shifts focus to satellite production
• Nov. 2: Marketplace: Stepping up the technology to find methane leaks

October

• Oct. 29: Daily Camera: Boulder startup moves toward human trials for potentially life-saving oxygen therapy
• Oct. 26: Phys.org: A new model could help stall shifting sand dunes, protecting infrastructure and ecosystems
• Oct. 20: PBS Terra: What makes these dunes sing?
• Oct. 19: Patch: CU Boulder mechanical engineering PhD student earns prestigious NSF grant research fellowship
• Oct. 15: LongPath Technologies is named the 2021 Colorado Photonics Company of the Year
• Oct. 8: VAntage Point: Next generation prosthetics for Veterans of all eras
• Oct. 1: CNBC: Jim Cramer loves this Ford and BMW-backed battery maker set to go public as an electric vehicle play
• Oct. 1: Daily Camera: Intelligence agency funds Solid Power battery research and development

September

• Sept. 28: CU Boulder Engineering team advances to next phase of MagQuest Challenge
• Sept. 27: EcoWatch: You Can Wash and Reuse Your Cloth Mask for a Year Without Losing Protection, Study Finds
• Sept. 26: Jamaica Observer: ME undergraduate Jared Lewis' grand opportunity
• Sept. 23: Dark Daily: Study shows dynamic tattoos can help detect and track health issues 
• Sept. 17: Denver7: CU Boulder students, led by Sean Humbert, competing in underwater robot challenge
• Sept. 14: 9NEWS: Robot competition may drive search and rescue innovation
• Sept. 12: IEEE Spectrum: Gregory Whiting helps develop cheap sensors for smarter farmers
• Sept. 10: Science: Francois Barthelat research paper presents new toughened glass inspired by seashell
• Sept. 9: Tech Briefs: A 3D-Printed 'Fish Fin' Offers New Ideas for Morphing Aircraft
• Sept. 8: Denver Post: Louisville-based company at the forefront of battery technology for electric cars is expanding
• Sept. 8: Congrats to the recipients of the 2020-21 ME Department Awards

August

• Aug. 27: Science Daily: Simple safety measures reduce musical COVID-19 transmission
• Aug. 18: The Conversation: How fish fins can teach us about flexible robots
• Aug. 17: Daily Camera: Boulder medical device startup receives patent for new balloon catheter
• Aug. 11: CBS4: The Best Methods To Filter Indoor Air, According To A Pollution Expert At CU Boulder
• Aug. 9: Smithsonian Magazine: 4 Ways to Protect Yourself From Harmful Air Pollution Caused By Wildfires

July

• July 29: VIDEO: Stratasys features Robert MacCurdy's multimaterial 3D printing innovations

June

• June 21: Two students win Best Paper Awards at the Summer Bioengineering Conference
• June 15: ME spinoff Solid Power announces merger, NASDAQ listing
• June 4: Medical Device Developments: At Your Fingertips

May

• May 26: Denver Business Journal: Boulder food startup Meati puts down roots
• May 13: CU Venture Partners: Rieker lab explores new technology for measuring angular velocity in fluid flows​
• May 13: ME spinoff LongPath Technologies earns $5M for methane leak detection work
• May 3: BMW, Ford lead Solid Power's $130M Series B

April

• April 23: Kat McConnell earns Marinus Smith Award

March

• March 18: ScienceDaily: Combined energy sources return a burst of photons from plasmonic gold nanogaps
• March 4: STEM Routes earns CU system President's Diversity Award

February

• Feb. 23: Popular Mechanics: Scientists Just Figured Out How to Turn Your Body Into a Battery
• Feb. 1: Denver7: Mechanical Engineering PhD student Kristen Genter manages Denver men's baseball team

January

• Jan. 12: ARPA-E: LongPath Technologies earns $5M grant 
• Jan. 8: Pretty Brainy | Computer-Aided Design: From Automobiles to Arteries

2020

December

• Dec. 30: Medgadget: Best Medical Technologies of 2020
• Dec. 23: WNYC Radiolab: A Terrible COVID Christmas Special

• Nov. 25: The New York Times: Outdoor heaters seem like a huge waste. Are they really?
• Nov. 24: Air Quality News: Indoor air pollution and COVID-19
• Nov. 24: Atlanta News Now: Scientists offer ways to reduce indoor transmission of COVID-19
• Nov. 23: Daily Camera: CU Boulder research team develop skin-like electronic device
• Nov. 22: Science Daily: Airflow studies reveal strategies to reduce indoor transmission of COVID-19
• Nov. 20: IEEE: Soft robotics podcast with Robert MacCurdy
• Nov. 18: The New York Times: Covid indoors: Scrubbing surfaces does little to mitigate threat
• Nov. 12: SyFy Wire: Scientists' new sticky electronic skin is a greener option for wearable devices
• Nov. 11: CNET: 'Electronic skin' stretches, heals itself (and makes me dream of a cyborg future)
• Nov. 11: KCBS Radio: Expert: Smaller shared spaces pose COVID-19 risk
• Nov. 10: Science Daily: 'Electronic skin' promises cheap and recyclable alternative to wearable devices
• Nov. 10: Denver7: How musical ensembles can perform safely amid pandemic
• Nov. 9: Science Focus: New ‘electronic skin’ is a recyclable, self-healing wearable device
• Nov. 9: The News: Electronic skin ‘could be an eco-friendly alternative to wearable devices’
• Nov. 8: Interesting Engineering: This new wearable electronic device becomes one with your skin
• Nov. 7: Gephardt Daily: ‘Electronic skin’ offers cheap, eco-friendly alternative to wearable devices
• Nov. 6: UPI: 'Electronic skin' offers cheap, eco-friendly alternative to wearable devices
• Nov. 6: Denver Gazette: CU Boulder researchers develop electronic skin to monitor health conditions
• Nov. 6: The Telegraph: The Terminator-like 'electric skin' that can repair itself in 13 minutes
• Nov. 6: Daily Mail: Self-healing 'electronic skin' that can track your step count and monitor your heart rate could offer an environmentally-friendly alternative to wearable devices
• Nov. 6: AAAS EurekAlert: 'Electronic skin' promises cheap and recyclable alternative to wearable devices
• Nov. 6: Jianliang Xiao published a paper titled, Heterogeneous integration of rigid, soft, and liquid materials for self-healable, recyclable, and reconfigurable wearable electronics
• Nov. 5: CBS San Francisco: Two bay area young women become region’s first female eagle scouts

• Oct. 23: Vox: Why plexiglass alone can’t prevent Covid-19
• Oct. 22: CMM Online: Restaurants and Other Businesses Focus on Ventilation
• Oct. 21: INSTAAR: Arctic communities planning for abrupt permafrost thaw
• Oct. 19: Technology Networks: New technology diagnoses sickle cell disease in record time
• Oct. 19: Quartz: To win customers’ trust, restaurants are paying to improve ventilation
• Oct. 16: The Gazette: CU Boulder team researches the spread of COVID-19 through musical instruments
• Oct. 16: Phys.org: New technology diagnoses sickle cell disease in record time
• Oct. 15: CNBC: Airborne transmission of coronavirus has made high-end air filtration systems more popular than ‘toilet paper in April’ as HVAC systems sell out
• Oct. 15: AAAS EurekAlert: New technology diagnoses sickle cell disease in record time
• Oct. 14: CU Boulder Today: Innovative new leadership center blends research with programming
• Oct. 13: UX Collective: It's 2020 and we need universal design literacy by Carlye Lauff (PhDMechEngr'18)
• Oct. 4: CNBC: How using an air purifier in your home can and can’t prevent the spread of Covid-19
• Oct. 2: Being an Engineer Podcast: How to develop products for farmers and the NBA - Kailee Hanratty

• Sept. 30: Westword: Playing wind instruments and singing can spread COVID-19. Now what?
• Sept. 30: The Today Show: How to reduce COVID-19 spread indoors: Expert tips on airflow, precautions
• Sept. 28: Quartz: What everyone should know about ventilation and preventing Covid-19
• Sept. 26: Shelly Miller published a paper titled, Transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 by inhalation of respiratory aerosol in the Skagit Valley Chorale superspreading event
• Sept. 24: The Colorado Sun: Oil and gas companies must monitor fracking emissions as Colorado adopts first-in-the-nation rules to reduce air pollution
• Sept. 24: The Times: Is your house Covid-ready? Scientists offer their top tips
• Sept. 23: Solar Power World: Daniarely Loma-Jasso recognized as a winner of the 2020 Rising Women Solar fellowship
• Sept. 23: WebMD: Singing without a face mask can spread COVID-19
• Sept. 22: Carson Bruns published a paper titled, Solar Freckles: Long-Term Photochromic Tattoos for Intradermal Ultraviolet Radiometry
• Sept. 22: PBS News Hour West: Shelly Miller featured at 28:30
• Sept. 19: CNBC: From air purifiers to holiday gifts: Experts say these are the products to buy before fall and winter
• Sept. 19: CU Independent: Face mask testing by CU’s Vance Lab
• Sept. 18: Congratulations to Debanjan Mukherjee, a recipient of the 2020-21 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, representing the quality and promise of his research
• Sept. 16: Aspero Medical receives $310,000 grant for development of Pillar™ micro-textured gastrointestinal endoscopic balloon overtube
• Sept. 9: ABC 12: A new kind of prosthetics
• Sept. 7: 9News: Two scientists explain Cameron Peak fires
• Sept. 6: Xiaoyun Ding published a paper titled, On-Chip Acousto Thermal Shift Assay for Rapid and Sensitive Assessment of Protein Thermodynamic Stability
• Sept. 4: The New York Times: At in-person choir rehearsals, a balance between joyful and careful
• Sept. 4: Congratulations to 2019-20 Outstanding Graduate Educator, Sean Humbert
• Sept. 4: Congratulations to 2019-20 Outstanding Undergraduate Educator, Derek Reamon
• Sept. 4: Congratulations to Daria Kotys-Schwartz, recipient of the 2019-20 Outstanding Service Award
• Sept. 4: Congratulations to 2019-20 Outstanding Researcher, Shelly Miller
• Sept. 4: Congratulations to Rong Long, recipient of the 2019-20 Woodward Outstanding Faculty Award
• Sept. 4: Congratulations to George Carter, recipient of the 2019-20 Outstanding Staff Award
• Sept. 3: Daily Camera: Plant-based meat startup Emergy raises $28.2M in funding
• Sept. 1: West Point Band: Army band COVID-19 risk mitigation for large groups

• Aug. 31: Outreach Awards support 28 community outreach projects
• Aug. 28: NPR's Science Friday: How your indoor air ventilation affects coronavirus spread
• Aug. 26: Congratulations to Debbie Yeh for winning the College's 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Staff Advisor Award
• Aug. 26: Congratulations to Undergraduate Academic Advisor Andres Schemel, nominated and selected to be a new member of staff council
• Aug. 26: Congratulations to Rong Long and Xiaobo Yin for being awarded Provost's Faculty Achievement Awards
• Aug. 24: IEEE Spectrum: Robotic tank is designed to crawl through your intestine
• Aug. 23: Elemental: Air purifiers, air filters, and the best DIY hacks to reduce the coronavirus risk
• Aug. 20: Daily Camera: Aspero Medical lands $225K National Science Foundation grant
• Aug. 19: Vox: Coronavirus is in the air. Here’s how to get it out.
• Aug. 13: Shelly Miller published a paper titled, SCC-IRG Track 1: Empowering Environmental Justice Communities with Smart and Connected Technology: Air and Noise Pollution, Wellbeing, and Social Relations in Times of Disruption
• Aug. 12: CU Anschutz: Scientists win grant to unravel mystery of how animals track scent
• Aug. 12: Artimus Robotics announced the closing of their series seed investment
• Aug. 11: Interesting Engineering: Active ventilation can curb indoor coronavirus spread, says engineer
• Aug. 10: The Conversation: How to use ventilation and air filtration to prevent the spread of coronavirus indoors
• Aug. 9: The New York Times: Your hot-weather guide to coronavirus, air-conditioning and airflow
• Aug. 7: CU Boulder pumping more outside air into classrooms in bid to thwart COVID-19’s spread
• Aug. 6: Forbes: National Science Foundation Invests $104 million to launch four new engineering research centers

• July 30: Can singing and wind instruments be made safe during coronavirus? Colorado researchers are trying to find out.
• July 24: 9news: How many germs are spread when a band plays?
• July 17: Science Magazine: Is it safe to strike up the band in a time of coronavirus?
• July 16: Alaa Ahmed released a book titled, Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control
• July 15: NPR's Here & Now: What you should know about COVID-19, air conditioning and indoor air quality
• July 15: Daniel Knight and Daria Kotys-Schwartz received the Engineering Leadership Development (LEAD) Division Best Paper Award for “Using Competing Values Framework to Map the Development of Leadership Skills as Capstone Design Students Transition to the Workplace”
• July 13: NPR's Morning Edition: Coronavirus sparks new interest in using ultraviolet light to disinfect indoor air
• July 6: Ginger Ferguson and Corey Neu published a paper titled, Human articular cartilage is orthotropic where microstructure, micromechanics, and chemistry vary with depth and split-line orientation
• July 6: Massimo Ruzzene published a paper titled, Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic material
• July 1: Congratulations to Lauren Wheeler, Finance and Project Manager for earning the Employee Recognition Award for outstanding staff contributions in the Idea Forge/Design Center Colorado

• June 22: Longji Cui published a paper titled, Electrically Driven Hot-Carrier Generation and Above-Threshold Light Emission in Plasmonic Tunnel Junctions
• June 17: Congratulations to Julie Steinbrenner for receiving the Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Teaching Award
• June 16: CBS Denver: Thousands volunteered to be infected with coronavirus to possibly speed up vaccine
• June 3: ASME: Workforce Blog: Engineering the news workplace after the pandemic
• June 3: IEEE Spectrum: HAMR-Jr Is a speedy quadrupedal robot the size of a penny

• May 28: CBS Denver: CU Boulder engineering students come up with way to keep NBA players warm while on the bench
• May 20: RMACC names poster winner from high performance computing symposium Chayut Teeraratkul, advised by Debanjan Mukherjee
• May 18: Congratulations to 2020 Research & Innovation Seed Grant Winners, Yifu Ding, Ginger Ferguson and Corey Neu
• May 4: GEN: Viewing nanoscale structures inside whole cells
• May 1: Video presentation by Shelly Miller: How can airborne transmission of CoV-2 indoors be minimized?

• April 30: VentureWell: How pivoting courses online is reinventing in-person learning
• April 15: Rob MacCurdy published a paper titled, A Fabrication Free, 3D Printed, Multi-Material, Self-Sensing Soft Actuator
• April 3: Xiaoyun Ding and Mark Borden publish a paper titled, Vaporizable endoskeletal droplets via tunable interfacial melting transitions

• March 31: TEDxGrandJunction: The Last Industrial Frontier
• March 31: BBC Sounds: Costing the Earth Podcast: Plastic Burnout
• March 5: Boulder Weekly: Chef and CU professor Carmen Pacheco-Borden on molé

• Feb. 19: IEEE Spectrum: How robotics teams prepared for DARPA's SubT Challenge: Urban Circuit
• Feb. 17: Nature: The supercool materials that send heat to space
• Feb. 15: Soft Robotics Podcast: Soft robotics with Mark Rentschler

• Jan. 24: Congratulations to Julie Steinbrenner for receiving the Charles A. Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award
• Jan. 24: Congratulations to Katherine McConnell for receiving the Outstanding Staff Award
• Jan. 7: Colorado Daily: CU Boulder students design better bench for NBA's Milwaukee Bucks
• Jan. 6: Daily Camera: CU Boulder startups net $1.5M in grants
• Jan. 6: CPR News: Why Denver sometimes smells like mothballs (and other unpleasant things)

2019

• Dec. 26: Times-Call: CU Boulder class inspired by da Vinci
• Dec. 9: GreenBiz: Can a new wave of laser and aerial imagery technologies slash methane emissions?
• Nov. 27: Forbes: Detection of methane leak from space could herald a revolution
• Nov. 21: Choose Colorado: $5.2 million advanced industries awards in fall 2019 will fuel 24 Colorado start-ups
• Nov. 13: 2019 CO-LABS Governor's Awards for High Impact Research winning video: Dual comb spectroscopy methane detection
• Nov. 11: Colorado Daily: CU Boulder, Anschutz launch new research partnership
• Oct. 31: Yale Environment: Methane detectives: Can a wave of new technology slash natural gas leaks?
• Oct. 18: CGTN: High-tech methods deployed to stop methane gas emissions
• Oct. 4: Kotys-Schwartz elevated to Teaching Professor, highest appointment for instructional faculty
• Oct. 4: USA Today: Air pollution inside my house could kill me. What are you breathing in at your home?
• Sept. 23: Congratulations to 2018-19 Outstanding Graduate Educator, Debanjan Mukherjee
• Sept. 23: Congratulations to 2018-19 Outstanding Undergraduate Educator, Jeff Knutsen and Mike Walker
• Sept. 23: Congratulations to Mark Borden and Peter Hamlington, recipients of the 2018-19 Outstanding Service Award
• Sept. 23: Congratulations to 2018-19 Outstanding Researcher, Greg Rieker
• Sept. 23: Congratulations to Jana Milford, recipient of the 2018-19 Distinguished Achievement Award
• Sept. 23: Congratulations to Corey Neu, recipient of the 2018-19 Woodward Outstanding Faculty Award
• Sept. 23: Congratulations to Debbie Yeh, recipient of the 2018-19 Outstanding Staff Award
• Sept. 21: Shelly Miller published a paper titled, Impact of Outdoor Air Pollution on Indoor Air Quality in Low-Income Homes during Wildfire Seasons
• Sept. 18: Washington Times: Environmental scientists express concern about indoor air pollution
• Feb. 11: Alumnus Jon Goldsmith selected for the college's Recent Alumni Award
• Jan. 7: George Carter awarded the 2018 Outstanding Staff Award
• Jan. 2: Jeff Knutsen awarded the Charles A. Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award​