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Research at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø encompasses thousands of scholarly, scientific and creative endeavors at any given time, resulting in new knowledge, technologies and creative work that advance the economy, culture and health of Colorado, the nation and the world. Here is a selection of the top CU research stories of the week.

BioServe Space Technologies: CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø's presence on the International Space Station

If you gaze at the night sky from Earth in just the right place, you will see the International Space Station (ISS), a bright speck of light hurtling through space at 5 miles per second as it orbits 220 miles above the planet.ÌýAnd if you were an astronaut floating around inside the station, you would see high-tech hardware and experiments designed and built at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø.

$24 million NSF grant to establish imaging science center at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø will expand its role as a national leader in imaging, materials, nano, bio and energy sciences as part of a collaborative partnership awarded $24 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new center.ÌýThe Science and Technology Center on Real-Time Functional Imaging, known as STROBE, will be headquartered at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø and will integrate several areas of imaging science and technology, including photon and electron-based imaging, advanced algorithms, big data analysis and adaptive imaging.

Research in documentary film gets inside the mind of a poker player

A CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø researcher will appear in a French documentary that delves into the minds of world-class poker players.ÌýAssistant Professor McKell CarterÌýofÌýtheÌýÌýstudies how social information influences the decisions people make – for example, how our knowledge of what other people are likely to do influences our own behaviors. HeÌýis especially interested in understanding how a particular area of the brain called the temporal-parietal junction helps us predict other people’s behaviors. His expertise will be part of the 52-minute film,ÌýPoker Mind.Ìý