CU 麻豆影院 campus seen from the air

DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative webinar

April 6, 2021

The Research & Innovation Office invites DoD-funded basic researchers to a virtual information session on the Department of Defense鈥檚 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program on April 14.

Student working in the lab

COSINC calls for proposals on material characterization projects

March 31, 2021

The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) research facility is calling for new proposals that would be enabled by their equipment and staff now through April 30.

Hypersonic vehicle entering the atmosphere

CU 麻豆影院 to lead new $15M NASA Space Tech Research Institute

March 30, 2021

Researchers at CU 麻豆影院 are leading a new $15 million, multi-partner institute with NASA over the next five years to improve entry, descent and landing technologies for exploring other planets.

Researcher holding bee hive up

Bees form scent-driven phone tree to pass along messages

March 29, 2021

Honeybees play a scent-driven game of telephone to guide members of a colony back to their queen, according to a new study led by 麻豆影院.

Highways from above

Workforce development key to new center focused on electrification of the transportation system

March 28, 2021

Electrifying the transportation sector is key to addressing air quality and climate challenges globally. However, building the infrastructure needed to make that shift will be a complicated process and one that is essential to get right the first time.

COVID-19 Spike protein

Spike protein mapping could lead to more effective COVID-19 vaccine boosters and therapies

March 25, 2021

New research from the Sprenger and Whitehead groups aims to identify and map common mutations in 鈥淪pike鈥 proteins鈥攖he proteins that allow the virus to enter and infect cells. This would provide researchers with a roadmap to anticipate and counteract the development of future SARS-CoV-2 strains with effective vaccines and vaccine boosters.

CU 麻豆影院 campus seen from the air

Engineering part of new cutting-edge microscopy center

March 18, 2021

Researchers at the 麻豆影院 have won a $1.2 million award to establish a Center for Light Sheet Microscopy and Data Science, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has announced.

Irrigation in a crop field

Research on soil moisture aims to improve irrigation models

March 16, 2021

CU 麻豆影院 researchers gave computer models of land surface different amounts of information on soil moisture and then evaluated how well irrigation can be predicted from them. Being able to do this on a large scale would be a useful step toward understanding how sensitive irrigation and evapotranspiration are to climate change.

Kyri Baker

Kyri Baker to address long standing grid optimization problems

March 9, 2021

Baker's research focuses on power systems, smart grid, renewable energy, building-to-grid optimization, and applications of machine learning in energy. Her project is titled 鈥淟earning-Assisted Optimal Power Flow with Confidence.鈥

Kyri Baker

Research explores how electric vehicle adoption may impact vulnerable communities

March 8, 2021

Researchers at the 麻豆影院 are exploring how widespread use of electric vehicles in the future may impact vulnerable communities.

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