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Global Intensives –piloted by CU Boulder for the first time in spring 2018–are short-term global programs embedded into on-campus, faculty-led courses. All include a 10- to 12-day immersion abroad that complements and expands on the material studied throughout the semester.

RASEI's Chuck Kutscher joined TV meteorologist, Mike Nelson's for the Earth Day symposium at the Denver Museum of Science and Nature IMAX. The theater had a sold-out audience of 400. Sepakers included, RASEI's Chuck Kutscher, CSU Professor Scott Denning, former NOAA Earth Sciences Director Sandy MacDonald, and Bill Ritter. Available...

Inorganic Core-Shell Nanotube Array for CO2 Photoreduction by H2O Presented by: Heinz Frei, Chemist Senior Scientist, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Date: Tuesday, April 9 at 11:00am Location: CIRES Auditorium​ Abstract: Artificial photosystems that accomplish the complete cycle of converting CO2 and H2O to fuel...

Earth-Abundant Plasmonics Presented by: Dr. Emilie Ringe, University of Cambridge, Departments of Earth Sciences and Materials Science and Metallurgy Date: Monday, April 8 at 1:00pm Location: JILA 10 th floor, Foothills Room Abstract: The colorful optical properties of gold and silver nanoparticles have been known for centuries, appearing in Roman...

Real materials rarely behave like their digital counterparts. Stability of the compounds must be part of the burden of proof for predicting the complex properties of matter, urges Alex Zunger.

Integrated Physical and Control System Design: A Strategy for New Performance Levels in Renewable Energy Systems Presented by: James Allison, Associate Professor and the Jerry S. Dobrovolny Faculty Scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Date: Friday, March 1 at 2:00pm Location: Koelbel Building, Classroom 230 Abstract: Modern renewable energy...

SOME of the world’s finest geoscientists from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to set a course for scaling up the world’s ability to decarbonise its energy supply.

The award is among $98 million in funding for 40 new projects across the country being provided by the agency. These funds will support R&D projects for technologies to transform the nation’s energy system.

Eleven CU Boulder researchers were honored in an annual report released by the firm Clarivate Analytics, which recognizes papers that rank in the top one percent of citations for their field and the year in its Web of Science platform.

New research shows that Upwind wind farms can reduce the energy production of downwind neighbor turbines. Read full article