Pushing Boundaries

A student team developed an app-connected ring that turns colors into sounds or musical notes. By tapping a ring worn on your finger, you can make music anyplace, anytime.

Student duo creates app that lets users buy or sell tickets to local sporting events, concerts or CU Boulder club activities. BeLive facilitates person-to-person communication without charging a transaction fee.

David Meyer wants to change the way people communicate. To bring back the lost art of sharing stories with people we meet, he developed a mobile application that makes it easy to initiate a conversation.

The CU Museum of Natural History herbarium houses more than a half-million grasses, flowers, lichens and mosses—regarded as one of the most important natural history repositories in western North America.

After struggling to find his place in engineering and math, Kristof Klipfel discovered the creative outlet he craved in the ATLAS Institute's Technology, Arts and Media program. The senior is consistently cranking out innovative work that demonstrates his active imagination.

Since sign languages differ greatly from country to country, refugees immigrating to the U.S. have an especially difficult time adapting. Linguistics graduate student Pamela Wright is not a refugee, but, as a deaf person, she's finding ways to make their transition better.

Student employees gain real-world experience working at the International Film Series, a popular venue for foreign, experimental and art films, documentaries and classic cinema.

Bawdy British humor is featured in the "Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women" exhibit at the CU Art Museum opening Feb. 2. A selection of prints shows the popular satire of the late 1700s and early 1800s, revealing parallels between then and today.

Professor Andrew Cowell and linguistics doctoral student Irina Wagner are working to save the endangered Arapaho language. Along the way they are also preserving the stories, narratives, songs and ethnohistory of the Arapaho.