March 2019

The domestic economic impact of commercialization activities at CU Boulder over the last five years amounted to a staggering $1.9 billion, according to the recently-released Economic Impact on Tech Transfer report.

Join us for the culmination of the New Venture Challenge 11 season at the NVC Championships. Winners from the five NVC tracks will pitch their business ideas in front of a live audience and panel of judges for the opportunity to win up to $200,000 in funding. Come hear their...

In 1948, William Pietenpol, the chair of physics at the University of Colorado, assembled a team of scientists and engineers for an ambitious venture: to launch an Aerobee rocket into the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere and collect new observations of the ultraviolet radiation emanating from the sun.

Double Helix Optics, a 3D nano-imaging company spun out of CU Boulder technology, won SPIE’s 2019 Prism Award in the Diagnostics and Therapeutics category for its innovative SPINDLE® imaging system.

A little piece of Colorado is going to the moon. When NASA launches Orion EM-1 in 2020, its first mission to orbit the moon since 1972, experiments from CU Boulder will be aboard.

Abigail Posner, head of strategy for Google’s Brand Unit, shared her top tips for unlocking creativity in a talk at Macky Auditorium. Posner was the third speaker in the university’s annual Leo Hill Leadership Speaker Series. Other speakers include former Secretary of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency Director Robert Gates and the first woman of color in space, astronaut Mae Jemison.