Two children fill water containers from a groundwater supply system in Turkana, Kenya

Improving drought resilience in East Africa with sensors, satellites and machine learning

Oct. 30, 2019

A team of researchers led by Professor Evan Thomas, director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, has been awarded a three-year, $660,000 grant by NASA to join the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, a joint venture between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Water samples collected from the communities and stored in a travel container.

Partnership puts valuable water quality information from Western Slope online

Oct. 30, 2019

Results from a new volunteer survey of private drinking water quality on the Western Slope through a partnership between CU 麻豆影院, Delta County and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are available online now.

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Liftoff

Oct. 28, 2019

Aerospace has a new home at CU 麻豆影院. The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has moved into its new dedicated building on East Campus. Eighteen months after construction began, the four-story, 175,000-square-foot structure was completed over the summer. Classes and research are underway inside. 鈥淭his new...

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Vets2STEM career expo connects veterans to national labs

Oct. 24, 2019

CU 麻豆影院 is co-hosting a unique opportunity for military veterans on Nov. 8. Vets2STEM is a career expo hosted at the Colorado School of Mines in partnership with Mines and Colorado State University. The event is open to all Colorado veteran students. Vets2STEM will introduce veterans to employment opportunities available...

Zoya Popovic with her students in Spain

Popovic鈥檚 time in Spain fosters new research collaborations

Oct. 24, 2019

Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic recently returned from Spain, having lived there as part of a Chair of Excellence Program with the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).

Schools of solitons form a swirling pattern

Schools of molecular 鈥榝ish鈥 could one day improve display screens

Oct. 23, 2019

Scientists at CU 麻豆影院 are using a type of material called liquid crystals to create incredibly small, swirling schools of 鈥渇ish,鈥 according to a study published recently in the journal Nature Communications.

Professor Mike McGehee

Research group advances perovskite solar technology

Oct. 21, 2019

In a new research paper published in Nature Energy earlier this month, Professor Michael McGehee and his research team demonstrate how to dramatically improve the stability of tin-containing perovskite material used in stacked solar cells, allowing for up to 30% power conversion efficiency.

Greg Whiting in the lab with a student

Creating the internet of living things

Oct. 18, 2019

Researchers in the Multifunctional Materials Interdisciplinary Research Theme are trying to create the internet of living things.

Leading with impact

College News Fall 2019

Oct. 18, 2019

Johnson returns to her roots For the second installment of the Dean鈥檚 Speaker Series , Bobby Braun sat down for a chat with Kristina Johnson, chancellor of the largest university system in the nation (State University of New York) and a former Obama appointee in the U.S. Department of Energy...

A student showing work at the ATLAS Research Showcase

ATLAS Institute Research Showcase set for Friday

Oct. 16, 2019

Research and creative work exposition, laboratory and studio tours, demos, poster presentations, and discussion with faculty members and graduate students.

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