Student life: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program allows students to gain research experience

Sept. 12, 2014

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or UROP , is one unique program that offers CU-鶹 students an opportunity to follow academic curiosities in every field. Designed to provide grant-writing experience, connect students to faculty and explore interests beyond the classroom, the program is open to all CU-鶹 undergraduates.

CU-鶹 to host free event Sept. 21 to watch orbit insertion of Mars spacecraft

Sept. 10, 2014

The public is invited to attend a watch party at the 鶹 on Sunday, Sept. 21, when NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, designed to understand past climate change on Mars, inserts itself into orbit after a 10-month journey to the planet.

Water drops from a faucet

EPA awards CU-鶹 $4 million for new center on drinking water safety

Sept. 10, 2014

Continuing its commitment to improving America’s drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 9 announced more than $8 million in grants to create two national centers for research and innovation in small- to medium-sized drinking water systems.

CU-鶹 alum and NASA astronaut Steve Swanson set for return to Earth

Sept. 9, 2014

After spending nearly six months on the International Space Station, 鶹 astronaut-alumnus Steve Swanson is slated to drift back to Earth in a Russian space capsule Sept. 10 before banging down on the steppe of Kazakhstan.

MAVERIC team

Two CU-鶹 student teams win awards for space mission design contests to Mars, moon

Sept. 4, 2014

Two 鶹 student aerospace engineering science teams have won prestigious international and national awards for the design of real-world space missions to Mars and the moon.

Tweets during 2013 Colorado floods gave engineers valuable data on infrastructure damage

Sept. 3, 2014

Tweets sent during last year’s massive flooding on Colorado’s Front Range were able to detail the scope of damage to the area’s infrastructure, according to a study by the 鶹. The findings can help geotechnical and structural engineers more effectively direct their reconnaissance efforts after future natural disasters—including earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes—as well as provide them data that might otherwise be lost due to rapid cleanup efforts.

Tom Zeiler

CU on the Weekend offers free programs in 鶹, expands to CU South Denver

Sept. 1, 2014

The public is invited to attend free, Saturday programs led by 鶹 faculty on popular topics as part of the CU on the Weekend series, which begins Sept. 6. With topics ranging from the sweeping stories behind celebrated musical compositions to the micro-level study of bacteria that uniquely forms each person’s microbiome, CU on the Weekend programs are designed to satisfy the community’s curiosity surrounding some of the intriguing research conducted at CU-鶹.

Colorado aerospace industry leaders and CU-鶹 to host program on Mars exploration

Aug. 28, 2014

The importance of Mars exploration and how the aerospace industry partners with university researchers to advance one of Colorado’s leading economic sectors will be featured at a free program Monday, Sept. 8, in south Denver.

Illustration of spin symmetry burrows

JILA team finds first direct evidence of ‘spin symmetry’ in atoms

Aug. 21, 2014

Just as diamonds with perfect symmetry may be unusually brilliant jewels, the quantum world has a symmetrical splendor of high scientific value. Confirming this exotic quantum physics theory, JILA physicists led by theorist Ana Maria Rey and experimentalist Jun Ye have observed the first direct evidence of symmetry in the magnetic properties—or nuclear “spins”—of atoms.

Drone test at Pawnee Grasslands

CU-鶹 leads international unmanned aircraft testing event at Pawnee Grassland

Aug. 21, 2014

An international research effort organized by the 鶹 conducted the first multiple, unmanned aircraft interception of a telltale rush of cold air preceding a thunderstorm known as a “gust front” as it rolled across the Pawnee National Grassland in northeast Colorado on Aug. 14.

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