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- The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· project, known as the PhET Interactive Simulations, is a pioneering science and math educational resource that seeks to improve STEM (or science, technology, engineering and mathematics) literacy and accessibility across the globe.
- Building on a $3 million partnership announced in 2016 to establish new academic programs focused on radio frequency (RF) systems, Lockheed Martin and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· today announced a follow-on Master Research Agreement (MRA), signed during a morning ceremony on the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· campus.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· researchers were awarded $507.9 million in research grants in the 2016–17 fiscal year, continuing a decade’s worth of robust growth in sponsored research funding for the campus.
- The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) has launched a new Principal Investigator (PI) Academy program to orient early career, tenure-track faculty to ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s research community and resources. Through the PI Academy,
- The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) is launching a new faculty fellowship this fall. Applications will be accepted through October 15 and selections will be announced by November 1, 2017. The RIO Faculty Fellows program
- Two projects led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers are among a select group being recognized with 2017 Governor’s Awards for High-Impact Research. The awards, presented by the CO-LABS consortium, celebrate the groundbreaking work of scientists and engineers from Colorado’s federal research labs.
- This year’s sold-out AeroSpace Ventures Day drew a crowd of thought leaders and representatives from across Colorado’s vibrant aerospace community.
- In 1977, two NASA space probes destined to forever upend our view of the solar system launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· scientists, who designed and built identical instruments for Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, were as stunned as anyone when the spacecraft began sending back data to Earth.
- A solar instrument package designed and built by ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and considered a key tool to help monitor the planet’s climate has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a targeted November launch.
- Ancient DNA used to track the mass exodus of ancestral Pueblo people from Colorado’s Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century indicates many wound up in the northern Rio Grande area north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, inhabited today by the Tewa Pueblo people.