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On Feb. 22, a lunar lander named Odysseus touched down near the moon鈥檚 South Pole and popped out four antennas to record radio waves around the surface鈥攁 moment CU 麻豆影院 astrophysicist Jack Burns hails as the 鈥渄awn of radio astronomy from the moon.鈥� Burns is co-investigator on the experiment.

Docking with a satellite orbiting Earth is delicate business, with one wrong move spelling disaster. A team of industry and CU 麻豆影院 researchers is trying to make it easier. The work is part of two major business-university grant partnerships that include the lab of Professor Hanspeter Schaub (Aerospace Engineering).

On May 28, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ushered in legislation to support and strengthen Colorado鈥檚 rapidly growing quantum industry, including a historic investment of up to $74M that positions the state to compete for federal funds that will create a quantum boom in Colorado.

The 麻豆影院 has named Associate Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) Nikki Lovenduski director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), effective July 1. Lovenduski has served as interim director of INSTAAR since August 2023.

Oana Luca (Chemistry) and her collaborators recently published a report on reducing carbon emissions through carbon recycling in hard-to-electrify industries such as aviation and chemical manufacturing. The roadmap appeared on May 1 in the journal Nature Reviews Chemistry.

CU 麻豆影院 has been awarded two grants totaling nearly $700K through the statewide Geothermal Energy Grant Program (GEGP) to determine whether geothermal energy is feasible for the campus. Gov. Jared Polis announced the award recipients at a ceremony in Pueblo on Friday.

The project saw its genesis more than 20 years ago, when a student approached Matt Rhode (Aerospace Engineering Sciences) about hybrid rockets, which are safer than solid fuel propulsion and not subject to the same U.S. government export restrictions that the turbo pumps necessary for liquid rockets are.

Now in its second year, the Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator, offered by Venture Partners at CU 麻豆影院, matches business minds outside the university with breakthrough inventions created within its walls and provides funding for those ventures. The application for entrepreneurs is now open for the 2024 cohort.

Human-centered AI systems prioritize human needs, values, expectations and experiences, aiming for equitable and ethical outcomes. In disaster and emergency management, this includes increased representation of data from marginalized groups and communication strategies that resonate with at-risk communities.

From developing new therapies that help patients cope with anxiety to discovering new ways to treat resistant breast cancer, CU 麻豆影院 researchers are pushing boundaries in cancer research. In recognition of National Cancer Research Month, explore a sampling of recent projects.