Jim Gallogly Dedication

Engineering education gets a $2.5 million boost, thanks to Gallogly gifts

With $2.5 million in gifts, Colorado鈥檚 Gallogly family is naming the Discovery Learning Center at the 麻豆影院, as well as boosting the teaching and research power of the College of Engineering and Applied Science with two new faculty positions.

NASA astronaut Terry Virts manipulating a BioServe experiment on ISS

BioServe Space Technologies: CU 麻豆影院'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. And if you were an astronaut floating around inside the station, you would see high-tech hardware and experiments designed and built at the 麻豆影院.

Physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) pose next to one of the laser apparatuses in their lab at the 麻豆影院 campus

$24 million NSF grant to establish imaging science center at CU 麻豆影院

CU 麻豆影院 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.

Atlas V launch

Asteroid mission successfully launched from Florida

A NASA mission involving CU 麻豆影院 was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:05 p.m. MDT last night and is on its way to explore an asteroid, setting the stage for a better understanding of the evolution of our solar system.

ASPIRE students

ASPIRE also has a big year!

Aug. 31, 2016

ASPIRE Summer Bridge is a residential academic program for incoming first-year students admitted to the College. The one week program provides social connections for the new students, academic projects, and fun team-building exercises. This year's program, which took place July 9-15, 2016, had the biggest class to date -- 45...

GoldShirt students at Gold Hill

GoldShirt Summer Bridge another success!

Aug. 31, 2016

This year's Summer Bridge experience for the GoldShirt program was our largest to date! Fifty new GoldShirt students participated in the two-week Summer Bridge this year. The program, July 8th to the 22nd, included a packed schedule of activities including academic strength assessments, workshops to teach success strategies, hands-on project...

Dean Robert Davis shakes the hand of Lockheed Martin Chief Technology Officer Keoki Jackson after a $3 million partnership forging new academic programs was announced

New partnership with Lockheed Martin forges research, career opportunities for students

Paige Anderson Arthur got hooked on science fiction and the prospect of space travel when she started watching Star Trek at age 13. Now, the Denver native is immersed in aerospace engineering at CU 麻豆影院, which is why she joined in the celebration Thursday as a new $3 million partnership with global aerospace industry leader Lockheed Martin was announced.

Digital Reading Device

Digital textbook scribbles, highlights could give students a learning leg up

The scribbles and highlights made by students reading digital textbooks should allow them to sharpen their learning curve, thanks to new software that can assess how they are digesting academic material and suggest more effective study techniques.

Amy Kramer

Saving Businesses from Patent Trolls

Intellectual property attorneys don鈥檛 bask in the spotlight, but they are a company鈥檚 best friend when it comes to protecting IP rights. Instead of taking victory laps for defending against increasingly common infringement cases, intellectual property attorneys are likely buried underneath stacks of documents, poring over every detail to protect their clients鈥 rights. This is the world of engineer-turned-intellectual property lawyer Amy Kramer.

Matossian

Matossian's Search

As an Apollo generation kid in the Washington D.C. area, Mark Matossian (AeroEngr MS 鈥93, PhD 鈥95) remembers watching the live moon landings on television, then wandering outside at night squinting at that very same celestial body, trying to see the lunar module. 鈥淭hat time ignited鈥onder,鈥 says Matossian, head of program management and production at Google鈥檚 Skybox Imaging. 鈥淚t was then that I connected with space.鈥

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