The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) invites faculty new to the university’s creative work, research and scholarly community to join the 2021 Principal Investigator (PI) Academy cohort. A virtual kickoff webinar will take place on Thursday, September 2.

Rebecca Maloy of the College of Music and Roy Parker of Biochemistry and the BioFrontiers Institute have been selected to receive 2021-2022 Distinguished Research Lectureships.

Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David D. Thompson joined University of Colorado President Todd Saliman, CU Boulder Provost Russell Moore and others on the UC Colorado Springs campus to sign the memorandum of understanding on Aug. 20.

Aspero Medical received a U.S. patent for its planned medical device, a new balloon catheter for use in gastrointestinal endoscopies. The patent means Aspero can seek FDA approval this year and, if successful, commercialization in early 2022.

Season 2 of the Buff Innovator Insights podcast continues with more behind-the-curtain looks at some of the most ground-breaking innovations in the world, along with the personal journeys that made those discoveries possible.

A study co-authored by Professor Keith Julien (Applied Math) offers a new window into the sun’s mysterious inner workings and may have future implications for understanding space weather, which affects everything from satellites to the electrical grid.

Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a platform which can quickly identify common mutations on the SARS-CoV-2 virus—a major step toward a universal vaccine for not only COVID-19, but also potentially for influenza, HIV and other deadly global viruses.

AB Nexus, an initiative to strengthen research collaboration between the CU Anschutz and CU Boulder campuses, is announcing its third call for proposals. The initiative, which awarded $1.2 million of seed funding to 16 project teams in the first year of programming, sponsors new and existing collaborative team projects.

These highly competitive grant programs encourage research by small U.S. businesses with the aim of putting innovative products on the market. STTR also requires businesses to collaborate with nonprofit research institutions like CU Boulder.

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) has announced the internal competition details for NSF MRSEC, with the goal of identifying Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) to move forward for submission to NSF. The deadline is November 15, 2021.