Chemical and biological engineering students and faculty at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø have launched several innovative technologies that are fueling Colorado's economy by creating jobs and drawing significant funding to the state, including a $155 million investment in Sundrop Fuels in July.
Â鶹¹ÙÍø engineering faculty are leading a $7.2 million multidisciplinary research initiative on soil blast modeling and simulation for the U.S. Department of Defense.
A new Â鶹¹ÙÍø study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age.
The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Â鶹¹ÙÍø Distinguished Professor Carl Lineberger as a member of the National Science Board. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in April.
Several Â鶹¹ÙÍø faculty and students are participating in NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and which is expected to help steer scientists toward the right recipe for planet-making.
Minh Than, one of the Â鶹¹ÙÍø's three Goldwater Scholarship winners in 2011, is spending his summer working in the lab of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor Min Han.
An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves.
An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the Â鶹¹ÙÍø has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.
A $670 million NASA orbiting mission to probe the past climate of Mars led by the Â鶹¹ÙÍø reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review by the space agency.
The Colorado economy will grow at a modest pace throughout the second half of 2011 with slow but positive job growth, according to economist Richard Wobbekind of the Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Leeds School of Business.