News & Events

The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) facility will host a day-long workshop and training session on Material 3D-Nanofabrication and Characterization from 8 a.m.—5 p.m. on Aug. 9 in the Gallogly Discovery Learning Center.

The Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab (ESIIL) is a major new NSF-funded data science and diversity effort at CIRES and CU Boulder. The new center will enable work that illuminates the biological impacts of climate change, includes diverse voices and responds to community needs.

John Bally (Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences) will dive into the new space telescope images at three events at the Fiske Planetarium. He took a moment with CU Boulder Today to talk about these new images, why telescopes are like time machines and why, for James Webb, the best is yet to come.

The Research and Innovation Office (RIO) is excited to announce the launch of the third annual Fellowship Writing & Peer Editing Program, facilitated by RIO Proposal Writer/Editor Donna Axel. Faculty are encouraged to attend a brief 30-minute kickoff on Wednesday, July 13 to determine if the program is appropriate for them.

NASA's new mission will land a spacecraft on a part of the Moon that’s never before been visited: the Gruithuisen Domes. Scientists, mission operators, and data analysts from LASP will play an important role in this mission, which will be led by researchers at the University of Central Florida.

Chancellor Philip DiStefano and a pair of CU Boulder sustainability leaders participated in University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) events during June as the university continues to take a leading role among higher education institutions in collaborating on climate solutions.

The University of Colorado Boulder has named Dr. Lori Hunter director of its Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), which applies leading edge social and behavioral science to inform and influence policies and actions with a national and international impact.

A new cooperative institute, formally designated the Cooperative Institute for Earth System Research and Data Science, will conduct collaborative research in support of NOAA’s mission to understand and predict Earth’s changing environment, from the deep sea to the outer edge of the atmosphere.

“It is a pleasure to reappoint Waleed to this role, ensuring his continued leadership of CIRES as an institute whose contributions and activities are important to the university, the nation and the global scientific community,” said Massimo Ruzzene, acting vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes at CU Boulder.

The programs, developed and managed by the Research & Innovation Office (RIO)'s Shared Instrumentation Network, are designed to support and grow the university's core facilities and available instrumentation, as well as the cutting-edge research these tools enable faculty to perform.