Graduate student Colleen McCollum spreads the word about antimicrobial resistance mediation on campus at CU 麻豆影院.

On CUE Podcast: The Anti-Microbial Resistance Mediation Outreach Program (ARMOR)

May 13, 2020

The Anti-Microbial Resistance Mediation Outreach Program, also known as ARMOR, is a graduate student led international effort to develop public awareness of and research into the threat of widespread anti-microbial resistance (AMR). On today's episode of On CUE, we sit down with the team and discuss the global threat AMR poses, the origins of the ARMOR program and steps the team has taken to shed a light on an unseen issue.

Professor Iain Boyd

Research will create important data in field of hypersonics

May 11, 2020

Professor Iain Boyd is hoping new materials research funding from the U.S. Navy will lead to better understanding and management of heat transfer in hypersonic vehicles through the use of ultra-high-temperature ceramics.

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New research to examine role of mentoring in STEM majors鈥 retention

May 6, 2020

Professor Angela Bielefeldt is starting a new research project that examines how mentoring and identity relate to retention among STEM majors in college. The work is funded by CU鈥檚 Research & Innovation Office Seed Grant program and is in partnership with the School of Education.

A child spraying something into the air by clapping.

The science of coronavirus and infectious aerosols

April 28, 2020

Professor Shelly Miller in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering writes in The Conversation that the more people understand how aerosols work, the better they can avoid getting or spreading the coronavirus.

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Continued CO2 emissions will impair cognition

April 21, 2020

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will cause urban and indoor levels of the gas to increase. This may significantly reduce our basic decision-making ability and complex strategic thinking, according to a new CU 麻豆影院-led study.

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With shrinking snowpack, drought predictability melting away

April 20, 2020

New research from Ben Livneh of civil, environmental and architectural engineering suggests that during the 21st century, our ability to predict drought using snow will literally melt away.

Students working in the tunnels with the drones.

It has to work: Sub T Challenge sharpens students鈥 skill in the field

April 17, 2020

CU 麻豆影院 is one of several funded teams in the Subterranean Challenge, a competition launched by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to stimulate and test ideas around autonomous robot use in difficult underground environments.

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College celebrates seven NSF CAREER award winners

April 16, 2020

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 their department or organization.鈥 The college has a long tradition of success in the award, with more than 50 winners serving as current and past faculty members.

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Recipients of 2020 Research & Innovation Seed Grants announced

April 15, 2020

The 2020 program attracted 109 proposals, which were evaluated by 42 faculty volunteers. CEAS winners this year include Bielefeldt, Ding and Peleg and many more.

Daniel Larremore

Larremore using Facebook data in the fight against COVID-19

April 9, 2020

Larremore and several colleagues from Colorado joined a nationwide study that seeks to use social media data to better understand how coronavirus cases might grow and travel in the coming weeks.

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