Awards

Professor Ivan Smalyukh is one of the winners of the 2021 Langmuir Lectureship Award for his innovative work in the colloid and surface chemistry fields. Smalyukh will deliver a special presentation at the 2021 ACS Fall National Meeting, as will Professor Deborah Leckband of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who also earned the honor.

Elizabeth Hjelvik of the Straub Research Group was selected by the National Science Foundation for the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), which provides significant annual funding and professional development opportunities to outstanding graduate students working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Fourteen university innovators pitched their technologies at Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), a funding competition hosted by Venture Partners at CU Boulder that helps commercially-promising technologies accelerate into impactful business ventures. Judges from the local entrepreneurial ecosystem awarded a record total of 12 grants—up to $125,000 each—for the top physical science, engineering and bioscience innovations demonstrating high commercial potential, a clear path to a compelling market and strong scientific support.

Camila Uzcategui was one of two CU Boulder students to receive a $15,000 Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) scholarship this year. PEO is a philanthropic organization founded in 1869 to celebrate the advancement of women. Uzcategui is a PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering Program and will be graduating...

Wil Srubar of civil, environmental and architectural engineering and Ginger Ferguson of mechanical engineering received a one-year, $801.5K Major Research Instrumentation Award from the National Science Foundation for “MRI: Acquisition of a 4D High-Resolution X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography System for the Rocky Mountain Region.” "The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves...

Christoph Keplinger, of mechanical engineering, received the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 1988, the Packard Foundation established the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the nation’s most promising professors to pursue science and engineering research early in their careers...

Dr. Al Weimer is a real pioneer in particle technology and has made many major advances in this area, including pioneering the technology to coat particles in fluidized beds using atomic layer deposition. Dr. Weimer is H.T. Sears Memorial Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at CU-Boulder...

May 26, 2016 WASHINGTON — The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $31 million in funding for 14 projects as part of ARPA-E’s newest program: Single-Pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Design (SHIELD). SHIELD project teams are developing innovative window coatings and windowpanes that could significantly improve the...

Gopinath will use her award to study the relationship between orbital angular momentum and rotating objects. "The results from the research will be far-reaching, with information about orbital angular momentum modal content essential for free-space communications and endoscopic super-resolution imaging (STED) for protein-level imaging in the human body," she wrote...

Professor Hendrik Heinz and colleagues received the Swiss Chemical Society’s 2016 Sandmeyer Award for experimental and modeling studies of a new commercial organic additive for the grinding of inorganic solids.