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Creating global impact

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) at the University of Colorado Boulder is focused on creating global impact by cultivating and supporting collaboration, transformation and leadership. At the heart of this focus are the diverse contributions of a wide range of world-class experts, working together to accelerate ideas throughout the entire innovation lifecycle. 

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May 18 community event kicks off the “Alpine” high performance computing era

On May 18, numerous leaders from on- and off-campus will gather to celebrate, introduce and officially launch the campus’s new high-performance computing infrastructure, dubbed “Alpine.” The third-generation infrastructure is provisioned and available to campus researchers immediately.

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Massimo Ruzzene steps in as acting vice chancellor, dean of institutes May 2
Massimo Ruzzene steps in as acting vice chancellor, dean of institutes May 2
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CU Boulder to play leading role in $10 million cyberinfrastructure initiative
CU Boulder, Deloitte launch Climate Innovation Collaboratory to accelerate action on climate crisis
CU Boulder, Deloitte launch Climate Innovation Collaboratory to accelerate action on climate crisis
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Keller named director of Institute of Behavioral Genetics
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NSF Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers: Webinar on May 18, NOIs due July 11


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The Buff Innovator Insights podcast offers a behind-the-curtain look at some of the most ground-breaking innovations in the world, along with the personal journeys that made those discoveries possible. 


Join Terri Fiez, Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation, for an up-close and personal look at how researchers, scholars and artists become global pioneers, and their visions of the future in the wide range of fields they explore. 

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$614 million in total research awards received FY 2019-20

#1 public university recipient of NASA research awards

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