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Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Dean of the Institutes Massimo Ruzzene named Alexa Van Dalsem director of the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) effective Jan. 1.

Scientists from across CU 麻豆影院 attended the 2023 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco to share their research about the search for life on Mars, small satellites viewing distant planets, how beavers transform landscapes, the fate of Antarctic ice sheets and more.

The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2024 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which includes 16 faculty members from departments and research institutes across the campus. The diversity of disciplines included embodies the breadth of excellence represented in CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 research, scholarship and creative work.

The High School New Venture Challenge (HSNVC) at CU 麻豆影院 and Business Bound at CU Denver connect high school students with their communities and cultivate entrepreneurial mindsets that span beyond basic business finance, fostering young innovators across Colorado.

CU 麻豆影院 and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have signed a Master Research Agreement, broadening a partnership between the two institutions and opening new collaboration pathways to address critical national security research and workforce needs.

A spacecraft the size of a cereal box has collected precise measurements of the atmospheres of large and puffy planets called 鈥渉ot Jupiters.鈥� The findings, led by a team from CU 麻豆影院, could help reveal how the atmospheres around these and a host of other worlds are escaping into space.

In November, CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL) hosted its first-ever virtual hackathon. Working in teams, 45 participants from around the world used environmental data science and AI to create innovative solutions, such as an app to track water quality by neighborhood.

The Colorado State Legislature passed a bill directing the Natural Hazards Center to assess current emergency alert practices. The resulting report identified several ways the state can address gaps in funding, resources and practice to provide more inclusive alerts for all Coloradoans.

鈥淭he current methods of trajectory design for missions that go beyond low Earth orbit to the Moon are very complicated and not intuitive. I want to change that,鈥� said Dezell Turner, an aerospace PhD student aiming to streamline orbital design with an interactive, augmented reality tool.

The George Ellery Hale Fellowships, created by CU 麻豆影院 in partnership with NSF鈥檚 National Solar Observatory, are designed to give students the freedom to explore a mix of solar and space physics research paths with multiple mentors before deciding on a thesis project.