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Research and Innovation Office Faculty Fellows inspired and informed the Boulder community during CU Boulder’s 2020 Research & Innovation Week. In this video, we hear from Associate Professor Gregory Whiting , who discusses the implications of a growing population on the world's soil and how his research group is developing...

CU Engineering experienced another record-breaking year for research funding in 2020, receiving $134 million overall and dwarfing the 2019 total of $108 million. While the year-over-year growth is impressive, Interim Dean Keith Molenaar said it only tells part of the story of the success the college has been enjoying. “Our...

CU Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science is leading a new Multi-disciplinary Simulation Center funded by the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program to model unbonded and bonded particulate materials in support of the stockpile stewardship program. Richard Regueiro Professor, Department...

Mechanical engineering undergraduate researcher, Paul DiTomas The ME SPUR Program , modeled after CU Summer Program for Undergraduate Research, enabled undergraduate students to work with mechanical engineering faculty during summer 2020 on research that could be conducted remotely. As a participant, Paul DiTomas worked with Research Professor John Pellegrino to...

J. Will Medlin New research from Professor J. Will Medlin and collaborators at three other institutions points to a new, inexpensive and sustainable method of synthesizing hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide has many industrial uses, and is often used as a remediation agent when toxic chemicals contaminate a site, helping to...

Cindy Regal, associate professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s Cottrell Frontiers in Research Excellence and Discovery (FRED) Award. As one of the suite of Cottrell Plus awards given to advance the research of Cottrell...

The colors in this newly discovered phase of liquid crystal shift as researchers apply a small electric field. (Credit: SMRC) Researchers at CU Boulder’s Soft Materials Research Center (SMRC) have discovered an elusive phase of matter, first proposed more than 100 years ago and sought after ever since. The team...

Professor Mike McGehee and students working in the lab. Researchers at CU Boulder have developed an improved method for controlling smart tinting on windows that could make them cheaper, more effective and more durable than current options on the market. The research, led by Professor Mike McGehee in the College...

Yifu Ding Professor Yifu Ding is starting a new research project that explores how soft robots of the future could include new materials inspired by snakeskin. Ding is based in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and is also the director of the MAST Center on campus, which...

CU Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings with help from some of the tiniest contractors out there. In a study published in the journal Matter and featured in the New York Times , engineer Wil Srubar and his colleagues describe their strategy for using...