Research & Innovation Week 2020
Join us for a weeklong celebration and showcase of research, scholarship and creative works at CU Boulder.
The 2020 edition of the annual CU Boulder Research & Innovation Week will:
Highlight and shape tomorrow's leaders
Showcase some of our most compelling innovations
Demonstrate CU Boulder's positive impact on humanity
The third annual Research & Innovation Week is designed to elevate awareness across campus, build a sense of shared community, create opportunities for collaboration and recognize exceptional leadership and outcomes.
Full Schedule
Wednesday, October 14
From September 2019 to October 2020, the German icebreaker Polarstern was embedded within the Arctic sea ice and drifted for 12 months. Hundreds of scientists from around the world spent months aboard, in shifts, studying the complete Arctic climate “system,” including the ocean below, sea ice and the atmosphere above. CU Boulder scientists played leading roles in the mission, dubbed MOSAiC for Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate.
At this virtual event, you’ll hear from:
- Expedition co-coordinator and lead atmospheric scientist Matthew Shupe
- Two educators who worked with dozens of MOSAiC scientists to bring their insights to students
- A videography team who captured mission moments in 360 degrees, creating planetarium shows that will be viewed around the world
On this Zoom-based panel, view spectacular images and video footage from the mission, and engage with speakers after their remarks.
Panelists will take live questions from the audience.
Thursday, October 15
Time and Space: A Deeper Look Into the World Around Us
Through a series of captivating vignettes, some of CU Boulder’s most promising faculty invite you to ride shotgun with them on their personal journeys to discovery and innovation. From revealing the hidden narratives of enslaved peoples of early America to understanding why the veins in your eyes kink in microgravity, these rising stars will give you a behind-the-scenes look at the scholarship and collaborations that unlock their pioneering, world-changing work.
Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Terri Fiez, Faculty Fellows Program Director Kirsten Rowell and a select group of RIO Faculty Fellows will be your guides on this journey through some of the university’s most compelling research, scholarship and creative work.
Speakers
- Allie Anderson (Aerospace Engineering)
- Stefanie Johnson (Business, Computer Science)
- Maria Kazachenko (Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences)
- Claire Monteleoni (Computer Science)
- Honor Sachs (History)
- Marcos Steuernagel (Theatre & Dance)
- Greg Whiting (Mechanical Engineering)
Friday, October 16
Capping off CU Boulder's 2020 Research and Innovation Week, take a virtual open lab tour and learn about the ATLAS Institute's inventive exploration and interdisciplinary research in fields like human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, computing for health and wellness, e-textiles, visual cognition, wearable technologies, personal diagnostics, nanoscale engineering, the technology of visual language and more.
Opening remarks by ATLAS Director Mark D. Gross will be followed with lightning talks by lab directors. In the breakout sessions that follow, visitors can take a deeper dive into the work of individual labs and studios.