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The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has named CU Â鶹ӰԺ a 2021 Innovation & Economic Prosperity (IEP) awardee. The IEP Innovation Award recognizes exemplary initiatives spurring innovation, entrepreneurship and technology-based economic development.

The new $7.8M facility will be operated under the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC)—a multidisciplinary core research facility that provides access to state-of-the-art equipment in micro and nanofabrication, nanomaterials characterization and metrology.

A first-of-its-kind study out of CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s Leeds School of Business found that entrepreneurs in the business of protecting the environment may be more effective at addressing climate change at a local level than sweeping policies or legacy companies trying to go green.

CU Â鶹ӰԺ innovators, JILA physicists, and university startup ColdQuanta are featured in a new film from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (COEDIT) explaining the importance of quantum research to the public—and promoting Colorado's extensive quantum ecosystem.

Eleven university innovators pitched their innovations at Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), an annual funding competition hosted by Venture Partners at CU Â鶹ӰԺ that accelerates commercially promising technologies accelerate into impactful business ventures.

Drawing on electromagnetic and optical observations from Parker Solar Probe, a team led by LASP researcher and CU Â鶹ӰԺ professor David Malaspina has produced the most complete picture yet of how hypervelocity dust impacts may damage a spacecraft and disturb its operations.

The Research & Innovation Seed Grant program—designed to stimulate new areas of research, scholarship and creativity on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus—is accepting proposals through Wednesday, January 19, 2022.

CU Â鶹ӰԺ and UN Human Rights have announced plans to co-host the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in late fall 2022. The summit is designed to engage human rights, scientific, political, educational, cultural and industry leaders to commit to specific goals that will help to slow climate change.

CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers attracted a record $634.4 million in fiscal year 2021 for studies that, among other things, examine how artificial intelligence can transform education, led to the United Arab Emirate’s Hope spacecraft orbiting Mars, and address threats posed by climate change in the Arctic.

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the Â鶹ӰԺ has had a record-breaking year for research funding, bringing in $53 million in awards.