Expert panels, student showcases headline Research & Innovation Week October 14-18
The second edition of听Research & Innovation Week, Oct. 14-18, is just around the corner and packed with events that are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public.听
Events include everything from expert panels, TED-style talks and film screenings to poster sessions, lightning talks and performances. Institutes, centers, schools and departments from every corner of campus are contributing to the programming, ensuring that there are engaging opportunities for everyone. All events are free and most are open to students, faculty, staff and the public.听
Featured events during the weeklong celebration include:
- CU on the Weekend: An Arctic Perspective on Contemporary Global Warming
听 听Saturday, 1-3 p.m.听听 听East Campus, Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotech Building (Butcher Auditorium)
Start the week early with a special听CU on the Weekend听lecture. Geology Professor Gifford Miller will听听discuss how researchers measure and evaluate contemporary global warming in the arctic, and how current warming trends compare to earlier centuries. - Tour Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics (LASP)听
听 听Monday,听2:30, 3:30 p.m.听听 听East Campus, LASP
兔子先生传媒文化作品ors can view models of different spacecraft and satellites, a class-10,000 clean room, a machine shop for building instruments, and our Mission Operations Center from which we operate satellites. - Remote Sensing & Climate Change鈥擯osters and Panel; Tour New Aerospace Building
听 听Monday,听4鈥7 p.m.听听 听East Campus, new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building
Explore the new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building and student poster presentations from 4鈥6 pm, then enjoy a world-class panel discussing what remote-sensing can tell us about climate change, now and in the future. The distinguished panel features James White, Waleed Abdalati, Scott Palo, Evan Thomas and Cora Randall. - Science/Technology/Market seminar鈥擟ell-based and Plant-based 鈥渃lean meat鈥
听 听Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 p.m.听听 听East Campus, Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotech Building (Butcher Auditorium)
Clean meat products can be safer, generate health and environmental benefits, taste great and be cost competitive with animal products. Life science companies, research universities and start-ups are building this new industry. - Lecture鈥擬oving Precision Health from Rhetoric to Reality
听 听Tuesday, 4-5 p.m.听听 听East Campus, Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotech Building (A108)
Roy Smythe, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of SomaLogic, will discuss SomaLogic鈥檚 goals and some current projects. - Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Faculty Fellows TED-Style Talks听
听 听Tuesday,听5:30鈥7:30 p.m.听听 听Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theatre
听will give five-minute TED-style talks exploring the leading edge of disciplines across the spectrum in this informative, inspiring evening. - Community-Engaged Research & Scholarship LIVE: Posters and Projects听
听 听Wednesday, 10 a.m.鈥12 p.m.听听 听Main Campus, Visual Arts Center
Come peruse posters, discuss projects and learn some community engagement strategies with graduate students from the Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholars and Community-Based Research Fellows cohorts. - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Sidewalk Symposium听
听 听Wednesday, 1鈥5 p.m.听听 听Main Campus, Norlin Quad
UROP invites the campus community to explore the pioneering work of its students while re-thinking the traditional research poster in this year鈥檚 Sidewalk Symposium鈥攁 radically unique event format developed in Boulder. - Research & Innovation Graduate Student Posters & Presentations
听 听Wednesday, 5:30鈥7 p.m.听听 听Main Campus, Idea Forge
Posters and lightning talks will present research, creative works,听inventions and more. The session welcomes novel presentation methods and styles, whether it is an original song for the lightning talk, photos of a performance for a poster, excerpts from a creative writing project听or an interactive poster for explaining research. - Lecture鈥擯enny Axelrad: Finding Your Way Through Space & Time
听 听Thursday, 5:30 p.m.听听听 听East Campus, new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building
Dr. Penny Axelrad,听the Joseph T. Negler Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, will share highlights from the COMPASS research group's journey, including recent advances in space situational awareness for large-scale CubeSat deployments,听GPS multipath modeling and positioning in complex environments, and GPS-based bistatic radar altimetry.听 - Ice on Fire听HBO Documentary Film Screening & Expert Panel听
听 听Thursday, 6:30鈥9 p.m.听听 听Main Campus, CASE building
兔子先生传媒文化作品 will host a screening of the new HBO documentary听听featuring our very own climate scientist and Arts & Sciences听Dean Jim White. Following the screening, we will hold a听panel discussion听featuring others featured in the film. The film鈥攁nd panel鈥攚ill focus on climate mitigation, such as carbon capture, biochar and solar power. - Graduate Research in Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies听
听 听Friday, 1:30鈥3 p.m.听听 听Main Campus, Acting Studio, University Theatre Building
Incoming Theatre & Dance graduate students showcase their research projects in PechaKucha presentations, in which each student gets 20 images, 20 seconds each, to present a compelling argument for the relationship between practice and research in their scholarship and creative work. - ATLAS Institute Research Showcase听
听 听Friday, 3:30鈥5:30 p.m.听听 听Main Campus, ATLAS Institute
Research and creative work exposition, laboratory and studio tours, demos, poster presentations, and discussion with faculty members and graduate students. This showcase will feature: Human-Robot Interaction, Tangible Media, AR/VR, Smart Textiles, Nanomaterials, Microfluidics, Game Design ++ and more.
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Note: More details on each can be found at the听. Additional events are still being added to the schedule.听Events like Thursday鈥檚 Inside NSF's Engineering Research Center (ERC) Program with Division Director Kon-Well Wang听and Friday鈥檚 Research Administrator鈥檚 Recognition Breakfast help deliver on the goals of the week but are intended for specific groups.听
About Research & Innovation Week
Research & Innovation Week is designed to strengthen community and collaboration across campus while demonstrating the broad impact of the work of 兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 faculty, researchers, postdocs, students and staff.
Additionally, the week aims to听boost visibility to audiences beyond campus, such as the Boulder community, industry partners, the entrepreneurial ecosystem and more.听
Hosted by the听Research & Innovation Office, Research & Innovation Week features collaborations across campus with groups including the听United Government of Graduate Students,听Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program,听Engaged Arts & Humanities Graduate Student Scholarsand more.听