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State accelerator program fosters CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø spinoff companies

Taking a well-researched, high impact idea to market can be a challenge. But thanks to grants provided by the state of Colorado’s Advanced Industry Accelerator (AIA) programs, some 21 businesses have been spun from CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø.

Solar instruments

$90 million solar instruments head to Florida for launch

A solar instrument package designed and built by CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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.

Mesa Verde

Ancient DNA used to track abandonment of Mesa Verde in 13th century

Aug. 11, 2017

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.

Magnesium ingot

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø spinoff modernizes magnesium production

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today’s leading methods.

Tracking Â鶹¹ÙÍø's air quality in real time

Tracking Â鶹¹ÙÍø's air quality—and generating public data—in real time

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø researchers and Colorado public agencies have partnered to create an automated emissions monitoring system that tracks methane and other harmful atmospheric gases to generate publically available data in near-real time.

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Colorado economic indicators continue strong growth in Q2

New business filings exhibited strong growth year-over-year in the second quarter of 2017, raising future employment expectations, according to a CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams.

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) begins internal search for new director, announces interim director

Aug. 7, 2017

The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) , the University’s oldest institute, today announced it is seeking a new director from within CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø. Applications will be accepted until August 23, 2017. Jim White, who served as INSTAAR’s director for the past ten years, is stepping down to take...

NSF Management and Operation of the Ocean Bottom Seismometer Instrument Center (OBSIC)

Aug. 1, 2017

Call for Interest due 8/9: NSF Management and Operation of the Ocean Bottom Seismometer Instrument Center (OBSIC) The Research & Innovation Office announces a limited submission call for interest / internal competition for the National Science Foundation's NSF Management and Operation of the Ocean Bottom Seismometer Instrumet Center (OBSIC) ...

Sanford lab surface building

Researchers work to break new ground in the mysteries of universe formation

July 24, 2017

Alysia Marino and Eric Zimmerman, associate professor and professor of Physics at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø, are working on the construction of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), which will eventually house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

Lab researchers

Curious colony of astronauts could help get humans to Mars

July 18, 2017

Studying mice post-space travel could be key in solving bone loss, a problem that affects millions of older Americans and inhibits human space exploration of Mars.

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