CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø students hold a drone while researching severe weather

Project TORUS

Nov. 1, 2019

Drones get inside look at supercell storms ​ Professor Eric Frew talks drone-based storm research and the movie Twister . Podcast Researchers from CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø flew drones into severe storms this spring for project TORUS, one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever, with students...

Greg Rieker in his lab at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø

Rieker receives top international award

Oct. 31, 2019

Using lasers, mechanical engineer Greg Rieker can understand exactly how molecules react during the combustion process. When a laser is projected across a combustion environment, certain wavelengths are absorbed depending on which molecules are present at a given time. For his excellence in combustion science, he was awarded the Hiroshi...

Anushree Chatterjee

Leading Edge

Oct. 28, 2019

With more than $630 million in new research funding last year, our faculty are on the forefront of technological advancements with the potential to solve some of today’s most pressing challenges. Here’s a brief look at just a few of their projects. Health monitoring in an ‘earable’ package Tam Vu...