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Home Research Research Report 2016-17 Innovators

Innovators

Waleed Abdalati

Waleed Abdalati

Professor of Geography and Director of Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES)

Former chief scientist for NASA; global leader in the use of satellite and airborne remote sensing techniques, integrated with in-situ observations and modeling, to understand how and why the Earth's ice cover is changing, and what those changes mean for life on Earth

Chris Bowman

Chris Bowman

Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering

National Academy of Inventors (NAI) fellow; combines engineering and material science with organic chemistry to create impact through discovery, starting companies, and inventing and developing new technologies

Bobby Braun

Bobby Braun

Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science

Smead space technology chair in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences; former NASA chief technologist

Marvin Caruthers

Marvin Caruthers

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Co-founded Amgen in 1980 to apply his work with RNA synthesis, DNA synthesis and analogs

Laura Devendorf

Laura Devendorf

Assistant Professor of Information Science and the ATLAS Institute

Studies and develops technological systems that embrace nonlinear, messy and otherwise uncertain terrains of everyday life

Juliet Gopinath

Juliet Gopinath

Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, and Physics

Cross-disciplinary research and collaboration, focusing on lasers and optical devices with potential sensing, communications and imaging applications

Henry Kapteyn

Henry Kapteyn

Professor of Physics and JILA Fellow

Ultrafast laser technology, ultrafast dynamics in molecular and materials systems, and development of tabletop coherent X-ray sources

Leslie Leinwand

Leslie Leinwand

Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Chief scientific officer, BioFrontiers Institute; National Academy of Inventors (NAI) fellow; exploring the possibilities of personalized heart-disease interventions

Shelly Miller

Shelly Miller

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Indoor air quality, health effects, sources and exposure to particulate air pollution, and development and evaluation of indoor air quality control measures

Michele Moses

Michele Moses

Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Education

A philospher of education centrally concerned with education policy and questions of democracy, equality and race in education

Scott Palo

Scott Palo

Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Associate Dean of Research for the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Design, construction, deployment and operation of small satellite (CubeSat) systems

David Pyrooz

David Pyrooz

Assistant Professor of Sociology

American Society of Criminology 2016 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar, for significant contributions to the study of criminal gang culture

Greg Rieker

Greg Rieker

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Development, application and optimization of laser-based sensors for combustion, industrial and environmental systems

Tin Tin Su

Tin Tin Su

Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Co-founder, Suvica

Innovative work with fruit flies led to the patenting of a compound that keeps radiation-treated cancer cells from regrowing, and a startup focused on cancer therapeutics

Tor Wager

Tor Wager

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Investigating the brain pathways that underlie the generation and regulation of pain and emotion

Linda Watkins

Linda Watkins

Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Global trailblazer in exloring pain modulation systems and developing novel approaches to controlling chronic pain

Jim White

Jim White

Professor of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies; Dean of Arts and Sciences

Expanding understanding of the global carbon cycle, reconstructing ancient environments and illuminating the degree to which plants can absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide

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