Research
- CU 麻豆影院 biomedical engineer Jacob Segil is working to bring back that sense of touch for amputees, including veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- A new interdisciplinary project from the National Science Foundation aims to improve our understanding of solar flares and our ability to predict them.
- The聽Anti-Microbial Resistance Mediation Outreach Program, also known as聽ARMOR,聽is聽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.聽
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,聽with more than 50聽winners serving as current and past faculty members.