Majid Zamani

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø part of $5.8M grant to improve cyber-physical transportation systems

June 29, 2022

Researchers at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø are part of a new $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help build the intelligent transportation systems of the future.

Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn in their lab on campus.

Exploring Colorado’s quantum revolution

June 28, 2022

A holistic discussion of quantum research on CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø's campus and across the state.

Mountain range

College of engineering celebrates 6 NSF CAREER award winners in 2022

June 26, 2022

Six faculty members within the College of Engineering and Applied Science received CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation in 2022.

Shideh Dashti

Video: Dashti on pioneering the resilient infrastructure of the future

June 26, 2022

Shideh Dashti is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø's College of Engineering and Applied Science. Her research is focused on geotechnical engineering, centrifuge modeling, and designing resilient infrastructure in the wake of earthquakes and climate-related natural disasters.

Wil Srubar

Cities of the future may be built with algae-grown limestone

June 23, 2022

Global cement production accounts for 7% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in large part through the burning of quarried limestone. Now, a CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø-led research team has figured out a way to make cement production carbon neutral—and even carbon negative—by pulling carbon dioxide out of the air with the help of microalgae.

Kristin Calahan in the lab

PhD grad lead author for Science Advances paper on micro-texturing materials for medical devices

June 23, 2022

Kristin Calahan (PhDMechEngr’21) is the lead author on a new paper in Science Advances that explores the best approaches for anchoring medical devices to tissue inside the body to improve their performance.

Wind turbine

Inspired by palm trees, scientists develop hurricane-resilient wind turbines

June 15, 2022

Today’s offshore wind turbines can tower more than 490 feet above ground, their spinning blades churning out up to 8 megawatts (MW) each—about enough to power 4000 homes in the U.S. But with their increasing size comes challenges.

Wyatt Shields

Wyatt Shields named Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences

June 13, 2022

The Pew Charitable Trust announced today that Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields has been selected as a 2022 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

Greg Rieker and a colleague in the lab.

As concerns rise about this greenhouse gas, CU startup works to plug leaks

June 9, 2022

Scientists at LongPath and CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø are using new laser technology to do what other technologies have struggled to do for years: detect natural gas, which is invisible to the eye, leaking from pipes at sites like this, in real time.

Microscope

Latest AB Nexus grants advance innovative intercampus research projects

June 9, 2022

the AB Nexus program announced its fourth round of grant awards to faculty from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø.

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