Research
The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) invites students, faculty, staff and the community to join Research & Innovation Week, October 12鈥16. The 2020 streamlined edition will feature three virtual events that you鈥檒l only be able to find at CU 麻豆影院.
Undergraduate researches share their experiences as participants in the ME SPUR Program. ME SPUR, modeled after CU Summer Program for Undergraduate Research, enabled undergraduate students to work with mechanical engineering faculty on research that could be conducted remotely.
During typical summers in the southeastern U.S., streams of visitors travel to Great Smoky Mountains National Park to witness one of nature鈥檚 most spectacular displays of light: thousands of male fireflies, all flashing together in near-perfect harmony.
The first examples of color-changing nanotech tattoos have been developed over the past few years, and they鈥檙e not just for body art.
New research from Professor J. Will Medlin and collaborators at three other institutions points to a new, inexpensive and sustainable method of synthesizing hydrogen peroxide.
CU 麻豆影院 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
In January 2019, NASA鈥檚 OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting the asteroid Bennu when the spacecraft鈥檚 cameras caught something unexpected: Thousands of tiny bits of material, some just the size of marbles, began to bounce off the surface of
Research into preventing and reversing the creation of misfolded protein aggregates known as fibrils could provide new therapeutic opportunities in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer鈥檚.
Cresten Mansfeldt of civil, environmental and architectural engineering is leading an effort to monitor the wastewater leaving residence halls on campus to detect and intercept community spread of COVID-19.
Graduate students Kathryn Mains and Kyle Schlafmann have earned fellowships in the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program, a prestigious, national security-focused initiative.