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- CU Engineering experienced another record-breaking year for research funding in 2020, receiving $134 million overall and dwarfing the 2019 total of $108 million.
- For three years, Air Quality Inquiry has been reaching K-12 students across rural Colorado. This year, Daniel Knight and his team extended the program across the globe to reach Public Lab Mongolia, a nonprofit whose mission is to make data available to the Mongolian public.
- CU Â鶹ӰԺ and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids.These bodies are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like
- A gift of $2 million from the Mortenson family caps an impressive year of growth for the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, including new federal and nonprofit funding totaling more than $11 million and significant research findings.
- CU Â鶹ӰԺ's John Crimaldi will lead a groundbreaking new international research network dubbed Odor2Action. The work is aimed at understanding how animals use information from odors in their environment to guide behavior, with far-ranging implications for our understanding of the human brain.
- In May 2020, Christian Cooper, a Black bird watcher, was strolling through Central Park in New York City when he ran into a white woman walking her dog off-leash.
- CU Â鶹ӰԺ will play a major role in a new center focused on developing infrastructure and systems that facilitate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.
- The National Science Foundation has announced that CU Â鶹ӰԺ will receive a $25 million award to launch a new quantum science and engineering research center. The new center will be led by physicist Jun Ye and is a partnership with 11 other research organizations in the United States and abroad.
- New assistant dean for access, inclusion and student programs, Dr. Terri D. Wright, joins CU Â鶹ӰԺ College of Engineering and Applied Science on July 20, 2020. Through her path from academia, to industry and into academic administration she had developed a depth of expertise that will inform and guide a holistic view of student achievement and support.
- The novel coronavirus may be able to travel from person to person through tiny particles floating in the air, according to a recent letter signed by 239 scientists from across the globe.Â