News & Events

The hotel industry saw bookings sink and costs rise during lockdowns, while the Great Resignation has made it harder to recoup staff as tourism rebounds. Omni Interlocken in Broomfield engaged teams of first-year students at the Leeds School of Business to bring in fresh perspectives on associate retention.

The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected as a United States Space Command Academic Engagement Enterprise member. The new national program is designed to expand collaboration and academic exchanges between universities and U.S. Space Command.

Solid Power—a CU Boulder spinout company that specializes in solid-state, sulfide-based electrolyte technology—will develop a 3D-structured Li metal anode and novel sulfur composite cathode to enable high-energy and fast-charging EV battery cells. It hopes to scale so that energy-dense cell costs are reduced.

A CU Boulder startup that builds laser systems to monitor methane emissions, LongPath has received regulatory approval by the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—the first emissions-monitoring technology to be approved at both state and federal levels.

The Research and Innovation Office is excited to announce its annual National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship Peer Editing Workshop Series, facilitated by RIO Proposal Writer/Editor Donna Axel. The virtual program, which begins on January 26, is designed to assist faculty in submitting a proposal to the NEH Fellowships, due April 12, 2023.

Rubén Donato, the Bob & Judy Charles Endowed Chair and a professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice in the School of Education, will deliver his in-person lecture “An Elusive Quest: Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the United States” at 4 p.m. on Jan. 31 in the Chancellor's Hall and Auditorium, Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE).

When gas leaks contaminate household water wells, is it from a failure in the drilling, or was the gas migrating naturally? New research conducted by a team of investigators at CU Boulder, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins and Dalhousie could help definitively answer that question.

One year after the Marshall Fire, dozens of ongoing research projects continue to explore the science behind what happened that day, the widespread impacts on people, pets and the environment and how we can mitigate future catastrophes. Here's a glimpse at what they’ve learned so far, and what’s in the works.

Iain Boyd (Aerospace Engineering), who has spent his career studying hypersonics, speaks about the extreme conditions the NASA spacecraft Orion faced on its recent return trip from the moon—and why the growing space tourism industry may require new kinds of spacecraft heat shields.

Gijs de Boer—a senior research scientist in CIRES and the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory—has been named director of national laboratory partnerships, a newly established, part-time role that will focus on expanding CU Boulder’s research collaborations with national laboratories.