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- Faculty, staff and students are invited to share, learn and celebrate ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s wide array of sustainability leadership and accomplishments, including the partnership with United Nations Human Rights to co-host the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in the fall of 2022.
- The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) is launching its Spring Faculty Development and Workshop calendar for 2022​. Faculty are encouraged to explore the full range of offerings for the rest of the semester.
- Sixty-five licenses and options. Twenty new startups. $2.1B in capital raised by spinout companies. $3.7B in exits by our startups. When it comes to translating ideas into impact at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·, the tangible results from 2021 are eye-popping.
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, today announced that three ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· researchers will join the ranks of its newest class of Fellows: Noah Finkelstein (Physics); Karl Linden (Environmental Engineering); and Brian Toon (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, LASP).
- From launching the Emirates Mars Mission and establishing a new AI institute to addressing COVID-19 and tackling the ever-expanding effects of our changing climate, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· faculty, staff and students will always be found at the leading edge of the issues that matter most.
- The forum will bring together researchers and research partners in an effort to enhance communication, coordination and collaboration in response to the Boulder County fires that ignited on December 30, 2021. CONVERGE is a NSF-funded initiative headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·.
- The AB Nexus program announced its third round of grant awards to faculty at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·, collaborating on innovative research projects that aim to improve human wellbeing through basic science and translational research approaches.Â
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· researchers Richard D. Noble (Chemistry) and Theodore Randolph (Engineering) have been named 2021 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, a recognition that honors academic inventors who have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.
- The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2022 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, comprised of 17 of the most promising faculty from across ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·.
- The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has named ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· a 2021 Innovation & Economic Prosperity (IEP) awardee. The IEP Innovation Award recognizes exemplary initiatives spurring innovation, entrepreneurship and technology-based economic development.