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The University of Colorado was awarded a nearly $57.4 million contract with NASA's Langley Research Center to build an instrument to be installed on the outside of the International Space Station. The technology is meant to improve the accuracy of the measurements scientists take of changes on Earth, including climate change.
Using advanced digital imaging technologies, classics professor and archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis is changing long-held perceptions of how prehistoric Greek communities functioned.
University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed a 3D printing technique that allows for localized control of an object’s firmness, opening up new biomedical avenues that could one day include artificial arteries and organ tissue.
The inaugural edition of Research & Innovation Week, Oct. 15-19, is filled with events designed to strengthen community and collaboration across campus while demonstrating the broad impact of the work of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s faculty, researchers, postdocs, students and staff. Register now for a tour, talk, panel or conference!
Hundreds of scientists at the Cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental Sciences (CIRES), a partnership of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), study earth processes that impact our planet’s varying climate systems, including advanced drought monitoring and Arctic and sea-level change.
One thing that Colorado communities share is a vibrant economy of growth industries driven by engineering and high tech. When all four corners of our state are united in promoting this ecosystem, Colorado is stronger and more competitive on the national stage.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· faculty hit a record milestone in the 2017-18 fiscal year, bringing in $511.1 million in funding for pioneering studies addressing climate change, robotics, indoor farming and more. These preliminary totals top last year’s $507.9 million in sponsored research funding across the university.
Kristine M. Larson of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and William M. Lewis Jr. of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department have been selected to receive the 2018 Distinguished Research Lectureship. The
A new material developed by ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· engineers can transform into complex, pre-programmed shapes via light and temperature stimuli, allowing a literal square peg to morph and fit into a round hole before fully reverting to its original form.
The scientific question at hand: Does a double-amputee running on prosthetic blades have a disadvantage over sprinters with legs? The answer could ultimately determine whether he will be allowed to compete at the 2020 Olympics.