August 2025
Wanted: Entrepreneurs to launch startups based on CU Boulder innovations
The Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator matches entrepreneurs with breakthrough university technologies and provides salary support, startup training and access to funding opportunities. Applications are now open for the 2026 cohort of Embark Startup Founders.
AB Nexus announces 2025 grant awards with an emphasis on quantum-focused research collaborations
AB Nexus awarded four research teams from the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CU Boulder. Collectively, the winning teams will receive $750,000 in funding to advance cutting-edge research that improves human health and well-being.
Solving the dilemma of space dust: LASP researchers win prestigious NASA prize for dust mitigation instrument
Space Dust Research & Technologies LLC, co-founded by LASP researchers Xu Wang and Mihaly Horanyi, has been awarded one of ten NASA TechLeap Prizes in the Space Technology Payload Challenge for their Electron Beam Dust Mitigation (EBDM) system.
Research institute building the AI-literate workforce of the future receives major new grant
After a rigorous review process, the NSF announced that it is renewing funding for the National AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming (NSF iSAT) for another five years, part of a $100 million investment by the federal government into AI research.
New bioimaging device holds potential for eye and heart condition detection
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new bioimaging device that can operate with significantly lower power and in an entirely non-mechanical way, reducing the risk of component failure. It could one day improve detecting eye and even heart conditions.
Robot regret: New research helps robots make safer decisions around humans
Morteza Lahijanian, an associate professor in CU Boulder’s Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, develops processes that let robots make safer decisions around humans while still trying to complete their tasks efficiently.