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CO-LABS announced this week that Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn of JILA were one of three winners of its prestigious Governor’s Awards for High-Impact Research. Brian McDonald of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) also led a team that earned an honorable mention in this year’s awards.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· physicists have developed an insulating gel that they say could coat the windows of habitats in space, allowing the settlers inside to trap and store energy from the sun—much like a greenhouse stays warm during the winter.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· donors supported students, high-impact research and top-notch facilities in a big way, making gifts totaling more than $147.8 million in the 2017–18 fiscal year, according to the latest advancement figures.
Now entering its fifth year, the Research Experience for Community College Students (RECCS) program, hosted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), gives Colorado community college students hands-on research opportunities as they look ahead in their careers.
A 3D nano-imaging company built around ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· technology and faculty just secured $1 million in investment funding from Luminate, an international startup accelerator focused on next-generation optics, photonics and imaging.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·'s earth science and atmospheric science departments both ranked No. 1 overall among world universities in the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's 2018 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), which was published today. The university also scored highly in a dozen other academic categories, highlighting the breadth of impactful ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· research.
Drones and other unmanned technologies can cost-effectively collect weather data in harsh or remote environments and contribute to better weather and climate models, according to a new study from CIRES and NOAA researchers. Unmanned aircraft and instrument-bearing tethered balloons are helping fill in critical data gaps over difficult-to-sample surfaces in the Arctic.
Google has announced a $1.5 million Google.org grant in support of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·'s PhET Interactive Simulations, and rent-free space for the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Boulder-based interactive toy and robot maker Sphero today announced the acquisition of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s 2018 New Venture Challenge champion Specdrums.
In a new study, an international team of researchers, including scientists from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·, located the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe. This matter, also called baryons, makes up all physical objects in existence, from stars to the cores of black holes.