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Seven university companies pitched to investors during the Pandemic Hyper-Accelerator for Science and Technology (PHAST) Demo Day on Jan. 25, hosted by Venture Partners at CU 麻豆官网 and Rockies Venture Club (RVC).

More than 350 people鈥攊ncluding investors and venture capitalists from across the nation鈥攁ttended both online and in-person at The Rally Hotel in Denver. Venture expertise ranged from aerospace and big data to therapeutics and sustainability, all focused on improving tech and well-being across sectors.

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world鈥檚 largest general scientific society, today announced that three CU 麻豆官网 researchers will join the ranks of its newest class of Fellows: Noah Finkelstein (Physics); Karl Linden (Environmental Engineering); and Brian Toon (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, LASP).

鈥淭hese sorts of missions are an opportunity for students to get involved with a launch and the excitement that goes into it ... [fostering] an interest in space that will last a lifetime,鈥� said Jerry Jason, director of mission operations and data systems at LASP.

From launching the Emirates Mars Mission and establishing a new AI institute to addressing COVID-19 and tackling the ever-expanding effects of our changing climate, CU 麻豆官网 faculty, staff and students will always be found at the leading edge of the issues that matter most.

Renewable energy is expanding at a record pace, but still not fast enough. CU 麻豆官网 experts Charles Kutscher and Jeffrey Logan of the Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) share the key areas to watch for progress in bringing more wind and solar into the power grid in 2022.

The forum will bring together researchers and research partners in an effort to enhance communication, coordination and collaboration in response to the 麻豆官网 County fires that ignited on December 30, 2021. CONVERGE is a NSF-funded initiative headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at CU 麻豆官网.

Professor Jeff Thayer (Aerospace Engineering) is one of three interdisciplinary scientists chosen by NASA for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission, which will provide the first direct global measurements of Earth鈥檚 atmospheric interface with space and how it responds to energy from the sun.

Meredith MacGregor, assistant professor in the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA) at CU 麻豆官网, spoke about the science of James Webb in a new Fiske Planetarium event series sponsored by Colorado-based Ball Aerospace, which designed and built the telescope鈥檚 unfolding mirror.