Life Hacks

June 5, 2017

How the BTU Lab at the ATLAS Institute is creating the next generation of innovators Hackers get a bad rap. Thanks to popular culture, mention 鈥渃omputer hacker鈥 and people immediately think of Matthew Broderick in War Games, or any number of recent security breaches of data. In reality, hackers are...

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The Perfect Launch Pad

June 5, 2017

Four engineering students from CU-麻豆影院 packed their bags and headed to Nicaragua during the semester break. But it wasn鈥檛 for the weather. It was strictly business for the founders of SolVia Solar. The group visits a farming cooperative in Rivas to discuss sustainable initiatives The group poses with villagers who...

Michael Gooseff and Anthony Bourdain in Antarctica

Welcoming a Celebrity Chef to the Bottom of the World

June 4, 2017

As federally funded scientists and engineers, my colleagues and I help translate our research to public audiences, including students, policy makers, congressional representatives, and sometimes even celebrity chefs! I am the principal investigator for a project that studies the ecosystem of a cold desert region of Antarctica. Earlier this year,...

Returning the Call

June 2, 2017

DIANA LOUCKS WAS ABOUT TO SERVE A YEAR-LONG STINT as chief of Space and Special Programs for Regional Command, South, in Afghanistan when she got a call.

The team working at the bridge site with pickaxes and shovels.

Building 'Bridges to Prosperity' in Southern Africa

May 31, 2017

[Editor鈥檚 note: CU 麻豆影院's student chapter of Bridges to Prosperity focuses on building pedestrian bridges over impassable rivers in communities unable to afford them. Students are building bridges this summer in Swaziland and Bolivia 鈥 stay tuned for more updates from the teams!] "Sawubona!" from all of us here on...

Women in Aerospace Symposium at CU 麻豆影院 College of Engineering

CU 麻豆影院, MIT, and Stanford Host Women in Aerospace Symposium

May 30, 2017

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is welcoming some of the nation鈥檚 best aerospace PhD students for a Women in Aerospace Symposium. The event will offer a unique opportunity for this select group of women who are interested in pursuing an academic career in aerospace, to present research and network with mentors and colleagues from across the country.

NSF award recipients

Three CU Engineering researchers earn NSF CAREER Awards

May 30, 2017

Three CU Engineering researchers have won CAREER Awards, the National Science Foundation鈥檚 most prestigious award for junior faculty. CAREER Awards provide approximately $500,000 over five years for those 鈥渨ho have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of...

Assistant Dean for Research Bill Doe (center, holding 鈥淏eat Navy鈥 sign) and Mike Traxler (far right 鈥 CU Office of Industry Collaboration) host the ONR contingent on campus.

Navy Science Advisors Salute CU Engineering Research

May 26, 2017

A critical and growing component of the College of Engineering and Applied Science鈥檚 work is basic and applied research in support of national security needs. Over 18 percent of the college鈥檚 current research expenditures support programs for the Army, Air Force and Navy (including the Marine Corps). As evidence of the our national reputation in defense research, the US Office of Naval...

Challenger being deployed from ISS.

CU 麻豆影院 satellite is live

May 25, 2017

QB50-Challenger deployed at 11:25pm MDT with two other QB50 satellites in the same deployer. CU 麻豆影院's QB50 CubeSat, named "Challenger," was successfully deployed from the International Space Station on May 24th at 11:25 PM MDT. The release coming just over a month after the satellite was launched from Cape Canveral...

Lila Finch

Graduate student project illuminates science for youth

May 24, 2017

In the lobby of the Roser ATLAS Building, a nine-foot illuminated tree sculpture is lending artistic form to scientific function. A project of PhD student Lila Finch and supported by Oracle Academy, the sculpture uses colored LEDs to visually demonstrate the health of a hydroponic garden growing one floor above...

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